Visitors To Wells Next The Sea

[Hylander]

Good to see, some brave souls have ventured out to visit Wells.          Correct me if I am wrong, but they look like visitors.

[floydraser]

Whenever I look at that webcam, at least twice a week probably, there's always a healthy line of visitors walking the long path to the car park.

[Hylander]

I meant the two Broads type boats moored up.   Wondered if they were visitors.   Sorry.   Yes you are right , as a regular visitors to Wells it is always buzzing.   

[Smoggy]

They are not broads type cruisers, they are sea going boats doing what they should be doing.

When the same just cruises the broads they are languishing. 

[Hylander]

Brundall Navy by any chance.   I did realise they were sea going boats, hence why I asked have they been brave and venture into Wells.

[Smoggy]

Adventurous to wells is the sort of idiots that take an old early 70's RLM31 and a '66 Freeman 30, mine was the RLM...

That was in 2011 coming from great ouse, in 2009 we took it from wells to hull and took 11 hours.

Glad I now have a faster boat with better sea keeping. 

[Smoggy]

Same old RLM in other random places, no land transport involved all on her own soggy bottom and always ending up back at home mooring,  great ouse up to 2011 then yare till sold end of 2015.

Nottingham 

Ipswich 

Snape maltings

Malden

Wivenhoe

Hull

York

Lincoln

Also did southwold, orford, woodbridge, shotley, brightlingsea, bradwell on sea,  Boston, most northern was boroughbridge, was aiming for Rippon but water levels and a low bridge thought otherwise.

We certainly got about in Leo Magill.

[ChrisB]

You can't beat coastal cruising. When younger we did the same for over 10 years but under sail, both sides of the Channel.

Starting with a 19' Sea Wych.   Then a Westerly Centaur, that I consider at 26' to be one of the best small cruising yachts ever built and lastly a Westerly Berwick, normally 31' but ours was a fraction over 32' as it was the Ketch Rig version.

Having a young family at this time. Both boats I had built with more powerful engines than standard and larger props, so when called upon were good motor sailors. If my late wife was below with our children, it allowed me shorten sail early as I was single handed on deck and made for a more comfortable passage.

Those upgraded engines were more than useful and worth every penny. Crossing Lyme Bay at night in flat calm and motoring into a Channel Gale outside the Portland race and on to round St Aldhelms Head.

Happy memories of years ago now.

[Hylander]

Visitors have gone , on a very high tide.