Yacht Carina in her new home.

Sitting nicely upright in the mud, important for making the tea........   

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An hour later but still not fully afloat......... 

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Tide now going out so she wont float on 5.7m then........ 

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The Skegness fishing fleet, yes, just one!

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I spy a new project??????? Nah, lifes too short.........

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Do they ever become completely stuck in the mud?

No, buoyancy pulls them free, dont know if the same applies to humans though. Personally I aint gonna try it. 

Go on Vince dare you.

Lovely photos 

Looks a nice place to be

That fishing boats from Whitby, not skeggers... Can you not lift the keel on your wee boat until you get out into deeper water?

Did you build the walkway or do you have to pay for that mooring? Nosey feckers on this forum...

The Lone Ranger wrote:That fishing boats from Whitby, not skeggers... Can you not lift the keel on your wee boat until you get out into deeper water?

Didn't know you knew of all things nautical Cam. Impressed!!

I got 100% in Watermanship in the Royal Engineers.

Long keel runs the length of the hull pretty much Cam. It needs 4 feet of water to move. The fisherman has a dog called Scud, Patch was trying to shag him but he was a bit bigger.    Landing stages owned by Skegness Yacht Club so I am a new member now. It is in fact about 3 miles South of Skeggy at Gibraltar Point nature reserve, its a bit bleak but looks nice enough in the sunshine.

Just had a look on google maps, how many hours per tide do you have access to the mooring...

I found you...can I get squatter's rights?

Cant believe he didnt park in the danger area

feck me wonder the Spanish havent tried to block you

I have heard many tales of boats getting marooned in the danger area Reg, give it time. You can just see the twisting channel in white, its marked with spikes on top of scaffold poles, if you can see the scaffold poles there is about 4 foot of water to float on. Looks like mine can only move on spring tides over 6m.

2014 Tide Table for Skegness, England for fishing <º(((><

Its all a bit nautical innit

Well I like nauty stuff, been like it most of my life. Think I was about 6 when I set fire to the school......

Adam Mint wrote:Just had a look on google maps, how many hours per tide do you have access to the mooring...

OK I'll try a different approach...

Vince, how long do you get to play with your boat before you get stuck in the mud...

Not very long but depends on the tide height. Best to go out on one tide and back on the next, like 9+ hours so best I wait until we get more daylight next Spring seeing as the channels not lit. You get a window of a few days once a fortnight but it does vary. Moons fault I believe.  When I took it in I had a window of 10 days and did it on the fifth, the tide was actually over the walkway on the landing stage, didnt know I had to bring wellies!

Take three...

And how long is not very long on one (average) tide...


Where's the head/brick/wall smiley...

You know, do I really care...

Yip, it's got to the stage I need to know, so spill the beans, how long...

I believe an average tide Ebb to flow is around 6.15 mins including the rest period, (tide high or low, BEFORE THE TURN). Thus the tide changes by roughly one hour everyday...if I remember correct about 57 mins per day in the South. Tidal changes are varied throughout the world and some places only have one low and one high per day, even some wait months for either. So where does the water go at low tide.

Down the plug hole,,, innit...

Adam Mint wrote:Take three...

And how long is not very long on one (average) tide...


Where's the head/brick/wall smiley...

You know, do I really care...

Yip, it's got to the stage I need to know, so spill the beans, how long...

Not long enough to bait the line let alone catch anything, not that I'm very good at that anyway. Used to get a good 3+ hours at Wells on any tide. Yes Kev, 2 high tides per day, roughly 12 and a half hours apart. I assume the water goes westwards like the moon but thats just a guess. Ask Galileo. Or Brian Cox.