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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2020 20:57:23 GMT
Well I have tried all evening to upload a couple short voyage videos via IMGUR, but I think it has a bug or something, and it keeps failing. Photos seem to work ok, but its not having anything to do with videos. So before giving up, I tried uploaded the video to youtube, and although it took a while, it worked.
Its not a public channel as I dont want internet idiots finding it and giving me gip, but you can see it with the link:
Now bear in mind this was only my second day on the boat, and I'd been barging and crashing my way up the River Great Ouse the previous afternoon, then waited around most of the day for Denver Lock to open. Obviously there's nothing in this clip that the old hands havent seen many times before, but I have to say, for a first try at this passage, I surprised myself by not hitting the sides. Much.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2020 6:35:00 GMT
Top of the tide on a neap is about the easiest way to get in, you hit the jackpot transiting then, it can be a bastard on the flood!
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 30, 2020 7:04:07 GMT
I surprised myself by not hitting the sides. Much. That's about the best video of entering that lock I've seen so far, and nifty driving! Well done!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2020 10:04:25 GMT
Β I surprised myself by not hitting the sides. Much.Β Β That's about the best video of entering that lock I've seen so far, and nifty driving! Well done! Slack water tends to make it a bit easier... I've never watched any videos, seen plenty of cock ups firsthand though π
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Post by TonyDunkley on Aug 30, 2020 20:52:45 GMT
Now bear in mind this was only my second day on the boat, and I'd been barging and crashing my way up the River Great Ouse the previous afternoon, then waited around most of the day for Denver Lock to open. Obviously there's nothing in this clip that the old hands havent seen many times before, but I have to say, for a first try at this passage, I surprised myself by not hitting the sides. Much. It's a long time since I last did any boating in that area - back sometime in the early 1980's on my Dad's converted lifeboat having come up from King's Lynn - so I don't know just where the deepest water is nowadays, or the whereabouts of the many sandbanks there used to be reaching out a surprisingly long way from the banks in some places, and sometimes on straight-ish stretches where you wouldn't necessarily expect them. Having said that though, and bearing in mind you were making the short run from Denver to Salter's Lode very shortly after local High Water - evident from the wet mark on the piling at Salter's Lode - you were a little to close to the starboard bank all the way down, and a whole lot too close just as you began the turn to port to line up for the lock. Taking liberties with what might turn out to be water too shallow for your boat to float in is alright at relatively low speeds and on a rising tide, . . but doing the same whilst moving along at a fairly good clip on a falling tide is, at the very least, a recipe for spending the next few hours admiring the same bit of scenery while you wait for the next tide to float you off again.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2020 21:20:03 GMT
Now bear in mind this was only my second day on the boat, and I'd been barging and crashing my way up the River Great Ouse the previous afternoon, then waited around most of the day for Denver Lock to open. Obviously there's nothing in this clip that the old hands havent seen many times before, but I have to say, for a first try at this passage, I surprised myself by not hitting the sides. Much. It's a long time since I last did any boating in that area - back sometime in the early 1980's on my Dad's converted lifeboat having come up from King's Lynn - so I don't know just where the deepest water is nowadays, or the whereabouts of the many sandbanks there used to be reaching out a surprisingly long way from the banks in some places, and sometimes on straight-ish stretches where you wouldn't necessarily expect them. Having said that though, and bearing in mind you were making the short run from Denver to Salter's Lode very shortly after local High Water - evident from the wet mark on the piling at Salter's Lode - you were a little to close to the starboard bank all the way down, and a whole lot too close just as you began the turn to port to line up for the lock. Taking liberties with what might turn out to be water too shallow for your boat to float in is alright at relatively low speeds and on a rising tide, . . but doing the same whilst moving along at a fairly good clip on a falling tide is, at the very least, a recipe for spending the next few hours admiring the same bit of scenery while you wait for the next tide to float you off again. Thanks Tony, I had no idea it was so shallow to starboard, or I would've stayed much more central. I was told it was about 300 metres, but never having done it before I wanted to be sure I would recognise the channel entrance in good time to turn, so I thought staying to the right would give me a better view of the turn- also, I had heard there was a sandbank on the port side, just near the apex of the turn into the channel. I think I had a fair bit of beginners luck in avoiding trouble on the right side of the channel, and in judging the turn itself. Interestingly, we were all held up for more than an hour because a boat coming up and into Salters lode from the opposite direction had grounded, although I dont know at what spot.
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