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I have an arrangement with a marina whereby my little boat spends winter safely ashore chocked up in the boatyard, and 6 months or so swinging on a mooring buoy out in the harbour. Last couple of days have been launch time..Couldn't have timed the weather better and all went smoothly. So, ready now for a summer exploring all the little creeks and shallow harbours and places that the big posh yachts can't get into...
A few photographs of a couple of cooking sunny days..They haul her out of the yard and put her in 'The Pool' which has a lock gate, to wait for the tide to flood. My boat is the bilge keel blue sloop next to Fizgig.
Low tide, acres of mud and weed. A great feeding ground for all sorts of wading birds. The berthing area gets periodically dredged, which is occurring this month hence the big dredger left of photo.
I row out to my mooring and spend the night, sometimes a few nights on board, surrounded by the silence or just the call of the birds and the sound of the tides as they ebb and flow. It is a beautiful area. Boats on swing moorings already, extreme left of photo.
A pair of Common Buzzards nest in those trees opposite my mooring.
Here she is, safely moored for the summer. That's a mooring buoy with a 10 ten limit on it's tackle, and as she weighs point 7 of a ton...she's secure there.
It's about a third of a mile row out to her from the harbour jetties.
I've got a trek planned for East Anglia soon, so we won't be going 'A Viking' for a while, but a few nights aboard are in order I think, if only for the solitude and waking up surrounded by Redshanks or Turnstones.
A few photographs of a couple of cooking sunny days..They haul her out of the yard and put her in 'The Pool' which has a lock gate, to wait for the tide to flood. My boat is the bilge keel blue sloop next to Fizgig.
Low tide, acres of mud and weed. A great feeding ground for all sorts of wading birds. The berthing area gets periodically dredged, which is occurring this month hence the big dredger left of photo.
I row out to my mooring and spend the night, sometimes a few nights on board, surrounded by the silence or just the call of the birds and the sound of the tides as they ebb and flow. It is a beautiful area. Boats on swing moorings already, extreme left of photo.
A pair of Common Buzzards nest in those trees opposite my mooring.
Here she is, safely moored for the summer. That's a mooring buoy with a 10 ten limit on it's tackle, and as she weighs point 7 of a ton...she's secure there.
It's about a third of a mile row out to her from the harbour jetties.
I've got a trek planned for East Anglia soon, so we won't be going 'A Viking' for a while, but a few nights aboard are in order I think, if only for the solitude and waking up surrounded by Redshanks or Turnstones.