Trips [16]

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Tim Parkinson
Tony Ryan
565
22/08/2013
09:36:00
Sunny
1st attempt at Bullo Pill - Unsuccessful
22nd August (Highest tide of the year in the evening)
LT Sharpness 06:20 HT Sharpness 09:36 height: 9.7m LT Sharpness 18:42
Tony Ryan
6:30 Arrived to find tide entering Pill
6:45 Able to board Avocet without difficulty
07:05 Rowed away from mooring after returning to attach tender to bow rather than stern mooring in view of weight on the latter.
07:21 Hoisted sails in next to no wind. Eastern Middle Buoyensius!
07:34 Counts still with no real wind until 7:54 when S 2-3
08:25 Lydney Pier after fine reach in S 2
08:45 Purton Hulks SE 3
09:20 No wind so rowed into bank .25 mile downstream form Noose corner.
9:48 Tide slack inshore so set off rowing
10:25 Sailed into Brim's Pill SW 2
10:54 Sharpness Pier SW 3
11:40 Near Counts with no sign of Cooling Pond marker beacons
12:00 Sailed into Pill
Upriver