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Post by Telemachus on Aug 2, 2019 11:55:15 GMT
So I know that on Monday, high water at the lock is around mid day. But to go upstream I want to get onto the river as soon as possible after the flood arrives. Does anyone know how long before high water the flood arrives and how long before high water one can pen out?
I phoned the lock keeper but no reply as of yet (probably having his lunch).
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Post by TonyDunkley on Aug 2, 2019 12:09:05 GMT
So I know that on Monday, high water at the lock is around mid day. But to go upstream I want to get onto the river as soon as possible after the flood arrives. Does anyone know how long before high water the flood arrives and how long before high water one can pen out? I phoned the lock keeper but no reply as of yet (probably having his lunch). Yes, Father Jack Nick, . . I know !
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Post by Telemachus on Aug 2, 2019 12:55:01 GMT
So I know that on Monday, high water at the lock is around mid day. But to go upstream I want to get onto the river as soon as possible after the flood arrives. Does anyone know how long before high water the flood arrives and how long before high water one can pen out? I phoned the lock keeper but no reply as of yet (probably having his lunch). Yes, Father Jack Nick, . . I know ! Well would you like to tell me then please?
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Post by peterboat on Aug 2, 2019 13:33:41 GMT
So I know that on Monday, high water at the lock is around mid day. But to go upstream I want to get onto the river as soon as possible after the flood arrives. Does anyone know how long before high water the flood arrives and how long before high water one can pen out? I phoned the lock keeper but no reply as of yet (probably having his lunch). Nick it will be when the lock keeper says its safe to go out! My mate John and Sam were going out next Wednesday or was it this wednesday? but cant because the tides are to big, I think they are going out the week after when it was safe and the amount of fresh had subsided
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2019 13:50:03 GMT
Every time we tried, when we were based at Pollington we never managed to get onto the Ouse due to the levels at Selby.
We waited in the basin but ended up turning back home.
I think that we were just very very unlucky though.
Also from memory after high levels the Ouse is notorious for significant sized debris coming down stream, so when you do get on it pays to keep a good look out.
The Selby canal itself though is very pretty if a bit bereft of places to moor.
And watch out for the impaient drivers at the swing bridge just before the basin, they do like to chance coming across on red as the barriers are dropping.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2019 14:00:59 GMT
Also when on the Selby canal look out for the unsual 'sumps' for land drainage that intrude ino the canal side. Im sure such features must exist elswhere but I cant recall seeing any others.
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Post by Telemachus on Aug 2, 2019 22:27:11 GMT
So I know that on Monday, high water at the lock is around mid day. But to go upstream I want to get onto the river as soon as possible after the flood arrives. Does anyone know how long before high water the flood arrives and how long before high water one can pen out? I phoned the lock keeper but no reply as of yet (probably having his lunch). Yes, Father Jack Nick, . . I know ! Ah well, I guess you don’t know, otherwise you would have been jumping up and down like Donkey in Shrek trying to tell me. Never mind, I’ll make more effort to get hold of the lockie tomorrow.
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Post by JohnV on Aug 2, 2019 23:59:49 GMT
This weekend they are moving the Arctic Corsair from her berth at the Museum Quarter on the river Hull SAM_1736 by mudlarker2, on Flickr
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2019 0:04:42 GMT
This weekend they are moving the Arctic Corsair from her berth at the Museum Quarter on the river Hull SAM_1736 by mudlarker2, on Flickr Fuckin hell, the rivets are bigger than Nick's boat.
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Post by JohnV on Aug 3, 2019 0:09:52 GMT
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Post by JohnV on Aug 3, 2019 0:12:40 GMT
This weekend they are moving the Arctic Corsair from her berth at the Museum Quarter on the river Hull SAM_1736 by mudlarker2, on Flickr Fuckin hell, the rivets are bigger than Nick's boat. two tugs ........ and a lot of water ....... Nick needs to read Peterboats post
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2019 6:22:29 GMT
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Post by Jim on Aug 3, 2019 6:30:04 GMT
The couple of times we did the Selby run we just turned up and went, spoke to the lock the day before for the timing. But then I'm not an uppity Yorkshireman, neither did I annoy a bunch of Volockies so my number was passed around the system, to be ignored. It's a great run, if they let you do it.
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Post by TonyDunkley on Aug 3, 2019 6:51:01 GMT
Yes, Father Jack Nick, . . I know ! Ah well, I guess you don’t know, otherwise you would have been jumping up and down like Donkey in Shrek trying to tell me. Never mind, I’ll make more effort to get hold of the lockie tomorrow. Silly sod, . . do you really think that an infantile jibe like that is going to get you what you want ? When big tides coincide with significant quantities of 'fresh' in the upper Ouse the most serious potential hazard is not to be found around Selby, or Naburn, but at the swingbridge at Cawood, where in certain circumstances, ie. too late leaving Selby or delayed on passage for any reason, you could find yourself being pushed along on a very swift tide towards a bridge, hidden just round a fairly blind bend, and with as little as 4' - 5' of clearance under it. Yesterday morning's tide (2 August) left only about 5' 9'' clearance under Cawood Bridge at local HW, and the predicted tide height for Monday morning (5 August) is (+) 3cm on yesterday's tide at Hull. The biggest tide in this fortnightly cycle of Springs is predicted for 8.3m at Hull on Sunday morning 4 August, . . only 2 x tides before you plan to be on the Ouse, and big enough for aegres in both the Trent and the Ouse ! The C&RT lock keepers on the Ouse at Naburn and Selby have a less than glittering track record in advising ditchcrawlers making passage between Selby and Naburn on occasions when big Spring tides and fresh can make things downright dangerous for those without the requisite knowledge and experience of what can be one of the most difficult stretches of tidal river in the UK, so bear that in mind when you're listening to what they're going to tell you. You could do worse than having a look at this and the links in it too ; < www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?/topic/75976-narrowboat-stuck-in-the-humber/page/1/ > . . . it's about a man with canal boat who was advised and sent on his way to Selby by the Naburn lock keeper on a big Spring tide plus some 'fresh'. Watched by the Cawood bridge keeper, who had not been told to expect him, he was very nearly decapitated as his boat was swept uncontrollably under the bridge with a matter of only a few inches clearance above the cabin top, and then after being unable to get into Selby Lock because of the rate the Ebb was running down, he ended up dried out on the shoal between Boothferry Bridge and the M62 bridge before being towed into Goole on the next tide by Humber Rescue.
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Post by Telemachus on Aug 3, 2019 7:06:32 GMT
Obviously the levels of fresh have been quite high, but by the time we get there I’m hoping it will have subsided considerably. We shall see.
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