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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 23, 2017 9:51:42 GMT
Shark-infested North Sea! It's the jelly fish that worry me! And the mermaids, the ones with beards.
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Post by JohnV on Jul 23, 2017 15:45:54 GMT
Yesterday at low tide I walked ashore from Sabina to pay the mooring fee and to ask about water (last time I filled up was a couple of weeks ago and it is getting rather low) as you can see from the photo it was a fair old hiker across the sand to the nearest bit of road. Fortunately a caravan site with a miniature railway that goes to and from the town (saving another long hike)# SAM_0796 by mudlarker2, on Flickr It's a nice little town and I wouldn't mind going back especially if I could book a berth in the town. I was told the only water without going into the town was in the commercial bit out by the light house ..... I went and had a look and decided discretion was the better part of valour !!! just a bit tight to turn round !!! ..... I decided that we could manage ..... we had loads of bottled drinking water and if the other ran out we'd just stay dirty !!! We sailed from Wells at 0700 and set off along the coast, at first fairly slowly as the tide was against but as we got out into the wash the speed picked up to over 8 knots proof !!! SAM_0800 by mudlarker2, on Flickr Had a good run up the coast, rain and poor visibility at times but light winds and althoughthere was still a bit of swell hanging round from earlier weather it was not uncomfortable. arrived at Spurn Point anchorage at 4 decent trip will post when I know when we will be running up to Hull.
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Post by JohnV on Jul 24, 2017 17:51:31 GMT
Dammit !!! wrote a long post and had the whole thing get lost in cyberspace
weatherbound at Spurn Head anchorage hopefully Hull tomorrow pm tide (20.00) will post then when reliable signal
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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 24, 2017 18:11:40 GMT
I also wrote a long post yesterday evening and that turned itself into a double of a previous post. Either Thunderboat has a wobbly software, or it's the piss-poor fading-coming back-fading again phone signals of the UK.
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Post by JohnV on Jul 25, 2017 5:42:51 GMT
weather a bit better this morning (thank goodness) but signal still the pits.
Won't post properly until either tonight or tomorrow when have decent signal
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Post by JohnV on Jul 25, 2017 18:38:13 GMT
Finally in HULL !!!
moored outside the drydock alongside a crane barge ...... kernackered ..... that must be one of the longest and most eventful voyages to a drydock .....EVER !!!
Strong flood up the river Hull, had to turn round in a river not much wider than Sabina is long and then go alongside the barge ..... did it without a single bang thump or grating noise, neatly into place .....and of course not a single person to see me do it !!!
more when I've come down from a adrenaline high !!!
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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 25, 2017 18:49:13 GMT
Just come back from Hull, by train to Goole. Had a mosey round Bridlington. Nice & sunny, drinking beer I bought in Hull - nipped into town as had 40 mins wait between trains. 27° inside boat, stove not on yet.
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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 25, 2017 18:58:16 GMT
When we walked over the A&C we saw a ship has arrived onto it - IMO 9155987 KATRIN VALLETTA.
Valletta is the capital of Malta (main town anyways).
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2017 18:58:21 GMT
Just come back from Hull, by train to Goole. Had a mosey round Bridlington. Nice & sunny, drinking beer I bought in Hull - nipped into town as had 40 mins wait between trains. 27° inside boat, stove not on yet. Yet?! 27° is positively tropical!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2017 19:07:01 GMT
Finally in HULL !!! moored outside the drydock alongside a crane barge ...... kernackered ..... that must be one of the longest and most eventful voyages to a drydock .....EVER !!! Strong flood up the river Hull, had to turn round in a river not much wider than Sabina is long and then go alongside the barge ..... did it without a single bang thump or grating noise, neatly into place .....and of course not a single person to see me do it !!! more when I've come down from a adrenaline high !!! That's wicked.
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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 25, 2017 19:07:27 GMT
Now 24. Sun dropped behind cloud. Half an hour 'til we swamp the docks under choking black birch and coal smoke. Very 'maritime' here, I should get one of those Faroe Islands sweaters and a pipe.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2017 19:28:14 GMT
You are truly nesh. Sat with doors open, windows and side hatch open, and drinking cold beer. The fire's not been lit since early May. I believed with you coming from the frozen north, you'd feel the UK was semi tropical. But you're officially nesh. Rog
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Post by patty on Jul 25, 2017 19:28:42 GMT
Finally in HULL !!! moored outside the drydock alongside a crane barge ...... kernackered ..... that must be one of the longest and most eventful voyages to a drydock .....EVER !!! Strong flood up the river Hull, had to turn round in a river not much wider than Sabina is long and then go alongside the barge ..... did it without a single bang thump or grating noise, neatly into place .....and of course not a single person to see me do it !!! more when I've come down from a adrenaline high !!! Fab...great..now relax
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Post by bargemast on Jul 25, 2017 19:34:31 GMT
Great news John, I'm happy you've arrived.
Do you know when you'll be in the drydock ?
ATB, and enjoy a well deserved good rest,
Peter.
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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 25, 2017 19:36:02 GMT
Roger, Roger! Loud and clear! We are used to being WARM in Finland as houses there are built properly. T-shirts and shorts for us at home in Minus 30 Centipedes. Burning the forests to keep the cold out and deprive future generations of arboreal familiarity is our aim!
Bollocks to people who sit in pub 'beer gardens' in the chilly wind and pretend they're enjoying it. Idiots.
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