Is This Norwich?

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In the early 80s, I did a trip up to Norwich on a 50m Baltic trader tall ship, which we took as far as the mooring outside the old Nelson Hotel. That was quite a scary experience, but she had relatively low freeboard, so you could at least see what was going on. I can't imagine what it'd be like steering one of those high forepeak coasters up there. The crew must've really been on their game not to wipe out the odd cruiser on the way up.

We actually scraped our way over the sand bar on the way into Southwold, but got as far as Foundry Bridge without any issue, so there was clearly plenty of depth back then. I can imagine it'd be the same now. Sadly, you couldn't try it, as she was also 30m tall, so wouldn't even get past Postwick now.