Mike wrote: > Somewhere around here I guess: > > http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=53.36216125157998~-0.7755761593580246&lvl=15&sty=s&eo=0 > > Yes, there are some good shallow spots to find around there as I found > to my cost as I was snoozing late one night while Dad was bringing the > boat up against the flow at close to low tide. I got several rude > awakings that night! >
Hhmmm, don't know what happened to my previous reply last night so I'll have another go with this one. Yes that's the spot. You pass the Sturton pumping station and are doing the right turn into Knaith Reach. The Trent guide advises sticking to the right here but that was where it was wrong in this case. By the time I had pirouetted, the narrow boats that I had overtaken before were just coming into sight past the earlier pump house at the left hand bend. However, we kept an eye open for them all the way down the straight Knaith Reach and they never came into sight so I can only surmise that they ran into trouble on the same bend that I did. In fairness, this bend was the only one where my old chart got it wrong so it is possible that a later edition might have a correction for that bend. > > Light weight... you've never really boated unless you can still hear > the engine in your head when you've moored up and gone to bed!! :-) Been there, done that etc but this trip was a delivery trip and there was no point in doing too much. As it was we arrived at Newark Marina a day early compared to the calculated arrival time. Roger
