tips on crossing breydon

[donnygeoff]

I made a paper yacht, had to pull to the side off the bath to de-mast....

 

by the time I had done that, slack water had gone and the flood had started....

 

[SweetKingfisher1]

Yes, sorry we will be heading up to north river. 

 

Regards

Marina 

[kadensa]

Now the wife is angry water all over bathroom floor

I've found that's a small price to pay for keeping four grandchildren amused for a couple of hours!

[JennyMorgan]

Found this on e-bay, the lower left hand picture, presumably of a sailing boat on Breydon, captures the 'fun' of crossing in a breeze, especially when the wind is against tide!!

 

[CaptinDread]

tip for crossing Breydon.

 

play your fave music on really loud as you will be bored to tears crossing Breydon.... It was more lively going up north....

[BroadAmbition]

The Lads Week,

 

1 x 'B.A' 2 x Jewels and 1 x Londonrascal going up the Bure against a full ebb tide

 

 

 

Griff

[JennyMorgan]

tip for crossing Breydon.

 

play your fave music on really loud as you will be bored to tears crossing Breydon.... It was more lively going up north....

Can't agree with that. Take binoculars, you'll be surprised at what you can see. Seals, grounded boats, wrecks, avocets, oystercatchers, harnsers, indeed birds galore and the odd sumptuous sunrise or sunset. Breydon is what eyes were invented for!  

[CaptinDread]

I have a pair of Tasco binoculars, they're good for my thousand yard stare....

[Liberty]

Best part of the Broads - love it.  Very special place.

[JawsOrca]

Does anyone know at what time (roughly) after low water the flood actually starts to run into the bure.. I'm sure even 1.5 hours after low water the water is still flowing out.. I really don't want to Orca up here when it's flowing out like this as the engine is still untrusted (And as it's so light it will probably be semi planning!!).  I guess after 1.5 hours the current into breydon is more than current out of the bure so it's never ideal.. or there a better time?? 

 

 

[BroadScot]

Hi Alan,

 

Last Wednesday, I arrived at the yellow post 50 mins after SW and there was still an underpull but it was ok the bridge height was showing 9ft 3" Pootled up at 4.7mph on the GPS. Hope that helps.

 

 

Iain.

[Hockham Admiral]

About 1.45hrs after, Alan. On our way up and down last/this week we arrived 1.30hrs after and tied up for an extra hour before we set off again. That ensures you have a good flood to take you all the way along either the Bure or across Breyden.

[Wonderwall]

Just have to say for any novices reading this. Breydon waters should be treated with respect , but not fear.

Common sense, reading your boating guide and keeping your eye on the ball (river!) and really that's all it is. Stay within the posts and you will be fine.

Go for it!!

[MauriceMynah]

I agree with the Admiral, get the timing as near right as you can, then as you start to go up the Bure, get under those two bridges and tie up at the yacht station until the flow is favorable to push you up river.

 

PS. I also agree with Wonderwall too

[JennyMorgan]

As youngsters two of us left Oulton Broad via Mutford Lock, rowed out of Lowestoft Harbour, rowed along the coast and and back into the Broads at Gorleston. We crossed Breydon and rowed back to Oulton Broad. Nothing difficult, just a case of getting the tides right, such is the value of using nature to advantage. We took the falling tide from Lowestoft, entered Gorleston at low water slack and used the flood to help us back to Oulton Broad, easy.

[SPEEDTRIPLE]

So, if the flood up the Bure starts about an hour and three quarters after LWS, does that mean the ebb from the Bure will also start around the same time after HWS?. If so, if you`re on a boat that can go under Gt Yarmouth bridges at HW, it might be worth crossing Breydon at the beginning of the ebb, then you will take the end of the flood up the Bure, or does`nt it work like that?. I hope i`ve described that correctly.

[JawsOrca]

Neil.. don't forget on high tide it can't get any higher.. so it's only going to be flowing out .. So going north to hit it on high slack you will be beating the incoming tide all the way over breydon.. then when you reach yarmouth the tide will start flowing out the bure so you will be beating it all the way up... Same going south.. you will be beating the tide coming towards yarmouth (as tides coming in to high water) then it will be flowing out the yare at breydon so you will beat it all the way.

Thus Hope you have a bloody good engine.. Ideally two just in one has enough. 

It's far easier to do it at low water (slack  ) and use the outgoing, then incoming tide  Cheers 

[SweetKingfisher1]

Hi Neil, this is how I work the tides out. Going from south to north river. If the low tide (slack) is say at 8am at G/Y, then I / we would start to cross Breydon Water around 8:40. As it takes us around 45mins. We then get to G/Y around when the flood starts. With luck the flood is pushing us up.

North to south river. If the low tide is say at 8am at G/Y, then we try to be at G/Y around 9:30 (we are sometimes just before time).

All this works for us and it has taken me sometime to get it right .

Regards

Marina  

[Hockham Admiral]

So, if the flood up the Bure starts about an hour and three quarters after LWS, does that mean the ebb from the Bure will also start around the same time after HWS?. If so, if you`re on a boat that can go under Gt Yarmouth bridges at HW, it might be worth crossing Breydon at the beginning of the ebb, then you will take the end of the flood up the Bure, or does`nt it work like that?. I hope i`ve described that correctly.

It  might work in the  very first after HW, Neil, but as you go up river you'll get an ever increasing ebb against you.

[Hockham Admiral]

Hi Neil, this is how I work the tides out. Going from south to north river. If the low tide (slack) is say at 8am at G/Y, then I / we would start to cross Breydon Water around 8:40. As it takes us around 45mins. We then get to G/Y around when the flood starts. With luck the flood is pushing us up.

North to south river. If the low tide is say at 8am at G/Y, then we try to be at G/Y around 9:30 (we are sometimes just before time).

All this works for us and it has taken me sometime to get it right .

Regards

Marina  

That's what I do, Marina, but I've increasingly started to wait for another hour at GHYS.

[SweetKingfisher1]

That's what I do, Marina, but I've increasingly started to wait for another hour at GHYS.

Hi John, are you going north or south with waiting another hour at GHYS.

Regards

Marina  

[SPEEDTRIPLE]

It  might work in the  very first after HW, Neil, but as you go up river you'll get an ever increasing ebb against you.

I have to admit John, i did`nt think of that 

[Hockham Admiral]

Hi John, are you going north or south with waiting another hour at GHYS.

Regards

Marina  

Either, Marina, then you get a bigger flood each way you're going and you don't tend to outrun the flood.

[SweetKingfisher1]

Either, Marina, then you get a bigger flood each way you're going and you don't tend to outrun the flood.

Ok John, so the low tide is at 8am at G/Y. you would pass G/Y at 10 or 10:30?

I am just trying to work your way out.

Regards

Marina 

[Hockham Admiral]

So long as one could still get  under the bridges, then yes, Marina, I would leave GH then.

I arrive with a bit of ebb behind me or at Slack Water if it's outside the Rangers' hours.