Overnight trip . . .
Hi,
Just as a wee break from building topics, here's an account of an overnight
trip I did on Monday/Tuesday in my Chebacco-20, SYLVESTER.
Setting out three hours before high water with a F2 southerly breeze, I
gently broad-reached up the Tay estuary with the tide for about 12 miles,
and anchored in a little pool which is tucked behind mud flats at low water.
Some tricky navigation to
locate it at high water -
"Approach Flisk Point from the east, keeping in line with the north facing
wall of the old fishing station. When the thumb held at arms length just
covers the east gable wall, drop your anchor."
It worked too! I spent the night there in a calm little pool while the
river
kicked up a wind-against-tide chop 50 yards away beyond the mud banks. Lots
of wild life - seals, herons, a buzzard, a curlew, oystercatchers . . . A
blissful night, never getting completely dark in these northern latitudes,
spent with the hatch open. Up at 4.30 am to make coffee then catch the ebb
tide back to Broughty Ferry. I motored home in the dawn calm. Life doesn't
get much better.
We've had a week or more of proper summer weather here in Scotland - no
wind above F4, and mostly F3 or less. Just right for the Chebacco.
Bill Samson,
Dundee,
Scotland.
--bill.samson@...
Chebacco News can be viewed on:
http://members.xoom.com/billsamson
Just as a wee break from building topics, here's an account of an overnight
trip I did on Monday/Tuesday in my Chebacco-20, SYLVESTER.
Setting out three hours before high water with a F2 southerly breeze, I
gently broad-reached up the Tay estuary with the tide for about 12 miles,
and anchored in a little pool which is tucked behind mud flats at low water.
Some tricky navigation to
locate it at high water -
"Approach Flisk Point from the east, keeping in line with the north facing
wall of the old fishing station. When the thumb held at arms length just
covers the east gable wall, drop your anchor."
It worked too! I spent the night there in a calm little pool while the
river
kicked up a wind-against-tide chop 50 yards away beyond the mud banks. Lots
of wild life - seals, herons, a buzzard, a curlew, oystercatchers . . . A
blissful night, never getting completely dark in these northern latitudes,
spent with the hatch open. Up at 4.30 am to make coffee then catch the ebb
tide back to Broughty Ferry. I motored home in the dawn calm. Life doesn't
get much better.
We've had a week or more of proper summer weather here in Scotland - no
wind above F4, and mostly F3 or less. Just right for the Chebacco.
Bill Samson,
Dundee,
Scotland.
--bill.samson@...
Chebacco News can be viewed on:
http://members.xoom.com/billsamson