My great uncle used to moor his 30’ sailboat(Elise) on the Dart, he took my family and I on it to Guernsey in 1989, it was the best holiday I ever had, dolphins accompanied us part of the way, we saw and heard concord go over us, I took the helm and dodged tankers and cruise ships, it was a amazing, I swore that one day I’d have my own vessel, it’s yet to happen but I still have that boyhood hope🤞🏻That video has brought back happy memories😊
What beautiful countryside you have in England. That was a fun video; I was looking forward to to you having a pint in that pub. Perhaps you could take us there with Maryanne, in the near future.
A day for messing about on the river, an adventure on Bow Creek. As Steve says "A grand day out" Next time dinner at the pub whilst waiting for the tide. Great relaxing trip in lovely countryside and a peaceful Bow Creek. Your Lady motored through and got you safely through.Thanks.
What a Journey, lovely Scenery. I seem to remember going there as a schoolkid with dad in '68 in one of Roy Andrew's boats from Dittisham, powered by a seagull. All that suspense and the depth reducing on your journey raised the pulse a few beats, stopped short of sweaty plams though. If you'd been me, having reached the Battle Cruiser, I'd have rewarded myself with a pint. Something for another Spring Tide maybe? Good Luck!
I love this video. Sir Nick, if you do this again, I would love to hear more about this adventure with your father, family...very interesting...thank you for sharing this!
Lovely footage, i can feel the beauty if Great Britan, thanks for sharing. I hope one day i can feel it in real there on river Dart. Next week i spend my holidays on the river Main / Rhein in Germany. There we have often shallow water areas, for the last two years it's cost me two boat propellers, but no risk no fun. Greetings from Frankfurt / Main Walter.
The dart can be awesome, was cruising in a hon wave 2.5 in totnes a couple of weeks ago with the kids . Had a family of very large seals swimming alongside and under us the whole journey. I’ve been all over the world but it was my favourite boat experience ever .
In about 1984 my father took his Princess 33mk2 from Dart Marina one evening with one of the Marina staff for navigation purposes and we had a meal in the Malsters which was indeed Floyd’s pub. We must have gone down on a rising tide as when we left the water was lapping over the top of bank and we got wet feet. I drove both ways and we went back in the dark! I doubt they do much dredging there and maybe in those days the channel was deeper?
Never get bored of your trips up the Dart. And it does get exciting/stressed when the depth is low. I was around the islands of Loch Lomond a few years back on a Grand Sturdy 38… with depths of 0.9m so know that feeling of will she won’t she get over. Good stuff Nick. 😎✌🏻🏴☠️
No doubt that was skinny water for the UK but.....there were sailboats back in there! lol If you ever find yourself in the Bahamas, Abaco's you'll find truly skinny water. My boat draws 36" and is a true twin inboard, which means no trim up available. I routinely see 3ft on the sounder which means I'm churning up the bottom. On the Gulf Stream crossing there's a sandy bank we cross called the Lily Bank. There's no land in sight, however the depth when crossing gets to less than 3ft. You may ask, how do you cross it then? Well, slowly pull up to the bank, throttle up and let the props dig a channel. lol Usually it's only a short distance to clear out. The caveat is. The water is crystal clear, and the sandy bottom is loosely packed. We could go around but that adds 10+ miles to the trip. Oh, I should add there's no "channel" markers to follow either. Charts are usually wrong, so eyes are your go to instrument. Blue water good, brown water bad! Good thing the water is crystal clear. haha
We prefer to adjust our sender settings to show water depth below the outdrive skeg and to read in feet so that there is no need to deduct boat draft from the depth of water. Also, if shallow water running is necessary you can always jack out the outdrive a little. If you boat in christchurch uk harbour you get used to 1.0/1.5 feet below your skeg !!!
@@gaycha6589 I agree of course and we always have the depth alarm set to on, and we keep a look out astern if getting concerned but we don't make a habit of trying to get out of the harbour before there is sufficient water. Aquaholic had been spoilt with very deep water off the coast of Torquay and Brixham and the outer reaches of Dartmouth but he may get used to shallower water soon !
@@pcwjcw yes well said. It’s ironic that the water in the lower Dart right up to the anchor stone is in places actually deeper than Torbay and most of Start Bay.
Wow, what a beautiful setting! Great Britain at its best! I look with admiration at the navigation skills that sailing on this type of water requires. As a totally color blind person I wouldn't dare to do this. That won't work with those colored buoys. :-) Not a good idea anyway with a view of less than 25%. So extra grateful that we can sail along a bit in this way. I'll stick to rowing & sailing, especially for the blind and visually impaired to experience that fantastic water sports feeling. Thank you Nick & friend for this beautiful sailing adventure. A watersports greeting from the Netherlands from René
Good bit of 'editing ' Nick... I presume you filmed the home landing before setting off...because you really ran aground!! 🤔 ...As usual an entertaining time.
Brilliant! Thanks Nick 👍 Love this type of boating. I used to circumnavigate Portsmouth in my old Fletcher. You need to pick the exact state of tide...not enough water and you run aground, too much and you can't get under the bridges! 😅 A challenge, but great fun! 😊
A nice little run out 👍Regarding the depth readings, are they calibrated from the waterline or from the sensor head on the bottom of the hull? Don't forget that it's your outdrive that makes up your 1m draught. If you get into trouble you can always lift the outdrive slightly out of the mud and still have some drive. Another is shifting ballast ie people. You can also throw the anchor and winch yourself off. Last resort is to jump off, stand in the water and push it off. 😁
Fun. Brings back memories of exploring the many channels on the river that I was boating during my teens and young adulthood. We had no depth finder. Observing behind the boat to see how much if any mud boat was stirring up tell you if you were going to get stuck soon.😁
Remember going up the river all the time in my dad's clinker built boat was w tidemaster i believe 1980 it was built .. can't wait to get on the water nearly there with my refit on my Wilson flyer 21 happy boating everyone ,
Hurley 22, lovely little yacht. In the late 70s my friends father allowed us to take her from the Wareham River, to the Channel Islands, for a 2 week cruise..engine power was a Johnson 8hp twin. Remote tank. It was a bit cramped. But my girl friend at the time had no worries about that! We had mixed weather and the boat handled very well. No Vhf, loads of chart work , walker log position fixing with a borrowed RDF! Happy days. The Hurley was called Lapwing. Enjoyed your clip. When you get to 1 metre that's when you should worry if an ebb tide. "If your not living on the edge NB , you're taking up space"😂
Marvellous, however, on arrival at Braye Harbour Alderney, we were a bit off and got sucked in to the Alderney race south bound. So as my grandfather called them, we started up the "Iron Topsail" the Evinrude and battled the Ebb tide for about 3 hours, the light house hardly moving as it was our transit marker. . All good life experiences. The yacht club was a total relief after picking up our mooring and rowing in the Avon Red Start to the jetty !!!@@AQUAHOLIC
I used to have a little Galleon 22. Almost identical to the Hurley. Learnt to cruise sail on it. The shallow 3’6” draft was perfect for gunk-holing and drying harbours. Tough as old boots. It was never a problem running aground. A brilliant little boat. There was a slight compromise with the heads though: it was between the V berth up front with as little headroom as there was draft. And so to use it you had to open the foredeck hatch, which if you were rafted up with neighbours on either side in some snug harbour somewhere and with either the upper half of your body or your head poking out through the hatch, depending upon whether you were standing or sitting, was either slightly embarrassing or amusing depending upon you and your neighbours’ mood at the time. Best was to just keep smiling or use the pub loo.
That was brilliant, watching the depth sounder while meandering inland from the sea. Looks like a lovely part of the world to visit, I'd be very tempted to stay for lunch.
people always for get that the sender for the depth sounder is on the bottom of the hull. So there is precisely the depth shown on the plotter below the bottom of the hull the actual depth is that shown on the plotter PLUS the draught of the boat. Great memories of a boozy lunch in the Maltsters Arms with an old friend sadly no longer with us. Thanks for the trip down memory lane Nick ❤
That's true, depending on how you've set the offset. You still have to allow for the outdrive, unless offset includes that, and some people offset the other way to give the actual water depth.
What a bit of excitement that was, weaving in and out to stay in some water 😂. Would love to see you anchor and use the tender at some point 😊. Great vid!
I saw a lovely little beach with a lawn and thought it would be the perfect spot for Marianne to to a bit of cooking for her own channel, with the boat in the background! ❤
That was fun 😅. I do a lot of boating in Poole harbour so am used to seeing low depth numbers and playing chicken. Not ran aground yet touch wood. Thanks for sharing Nick
A very enjoyable jaunt! Thanks for sharing it with us. What a great location for a pub and a great way to get to it. Not a good place to be a drunken sailor though.......
Hey Nick!! You should have went into the pub and filmed. It would have been cool to see the inside. Never turn down a couple of pints when they are that close. Lol
I was about 16-17 years old I had a 17 foot Glasfront ( my first boat ) went to the beach for a day and didn’t realize tide was going out. Was stuck there till the next day.
I know that feeling well Nick, we were in Newton Creek last week in our 805 and had 0.8m on the Garmin :-) it was a rising tide though plus the outdrive was in beach mode :-) fun though
Your videos are never boring even the one I watched of you on motorboat and yachting how to pack a grab bag when you had hair before marianne cut it lol and you say smugglers will float in just over a meter is that with full fuel and water tanks
Whew! That was more exciting than a modern day Hollywood thriller, listening to Nick counting off the depth readings whilst bobbing and weaving between the buoys. Felt like the climatic bombing run scene from Dam Busters. 😆 Looking forward to Shallow Water Boating 2: The Lunch Stop.
ah....keith floyd. the original celebrity chef. i still love to watch his episodes available free on youtube. lovely highlight to your cruise. he was brilliant.
Another brilliant video Nick, being a fellow boater I know exactly how nervous a trip like that can be. Can't stop thinking about the less experience boaters that would just sail up there thinking that there's plenty of water the whole width of the channel.
Loved Steve’s comment about it getting deeper when raining! But I think he had a lucky escape as I’m sure if you had run aground and had to lighten the ship it would have been “everything over the side except the Marmite” 🤠
Where is your transducer located? If it is thruhull, do you have keel offset entered. So you can then know if it’s water level from the bottom of the boat or from surface of the water.
A really lovely run as is any day boating! Shallow waters remind me of my Dad and running aground in Bembridge Harbour- his solution(as ever logical) was that three of us should go over the side. Fortunately my Mother was not with us!
Thanks for the video Nick, very much enjoyed it. A question about rights of way. On the Dart you had to give way to the sailing boats as they are under sail. In Bow creek, do you have the right of way, as an encumbered vessel, because you have to stick to the channel? I can also recommend the Banquet Boat, they do super trips out.
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Call that shallow? Pah! Bring yer boat onto the canals 😂
05:12 it was 1546 exact when I was watching this! Mega millions here I come!
No way! Good luck. 😃
My great uncle used to moor his 30’ sailboat(Elise) on the Dart, he took my family and I on it to Guernsey in 1989, it was the best holiday I ever had, dolphins accompanied us part of the way, we saw and heard concord go over us, I took the helm and dodged tankers and cruise ships, it was a amazing, I swore that one day I’d have my own vessel, it’s yet to happen but I still have that boyhood hope🤞🏻That video has brought back happy memories😊
Fantastic! You'll get there. 🙂
Growing up on the Dart. There was a wine place at Tuckenhay that sold bottles great place for gifts
Thee was indeed!
What beautiful countryside you have in England. That was a fun video; I was looking forward to to you having a pint in that pub. Perhaps you could take us there with Maryanne, in the near future.
Perhaps...
Great video reminds me of my run-down river ex too Topsham
Hi , I take it the depth sounder is set below the out drive skeg ? well done , a very nice place and thanks for the trip .😉
The transducer is mounted to the transom so the leg sticks out below it, if you see what I mean?
really Nice video Nick... Thanks
Glad you liked it! 🙂
Nick you need to visit that pub, looks fabulous. Grand day out, thanks for taking us along.
Glad you enjoyed it
I could never get bored of any of your boating videos! They’re so relaxing.
Glad you like them! 🙂
I sat on the edge of my seat for that entire voyage. Greetings from Giovanni, New York City, Manhattan.
Hey there Giovanni! 🙂
Reminds me of the Norfolk Broad where 2m depth is unusually high!
Great little outing to share, thanks.
Thanks for watching!
That was fun Nick....brave man - those duo props are expensive!
Think I would have decamped to the tender..
4:33. A quarter of a "century" perhaps? 😁😁
Dammit!! 🤦🏻♂️
A day for messing about on the river, an adventure on Bow Creek. As Steve says "A grand day out" Next time dinner at the pub whilst waiting for the tide. Great relaxing trip in lovely countryside and a peaceful Bow Creek. Your Lady motored through and got you safely through.Thanks.
What a Journey, lovely Scenery. I seem to remember going there as a schoolkid with dad in '68 in one of Roy Andrew's boats from Dittisham, powered by a seagull. All that suspense and the depth reducing on your journey raised the pulse a few beats, stopped short of sweaty plams though. If you'd been me, having reached the Battle Cruiser, I'd have rewarded myself with a pint. Something for another Spring Tide maybe? Good Luck!
I love this video. Sir Nick, if you do this again, I would love to hear more about this adventure with your father, family...very interesting...thank you for sharing this!
Surprised you don’t have your Sounder set to depth below keel.
Good video though. 👍
I do need to look at that
Lovely footage, i can feel the beauty if Great Britan, thanks for sharing. I hope one day i can feel it in real there on river Dart. Next week i spend my holidays on the river Main / Rhein in Germany. There we have often shallow water areas, for the last two years it's cost me two boat propellers, but no risk no fun. Greetings from Frankfurt / Main Walter.
Enjoy!
Shallow water is fun - and I've rounded off a few props in my time too. Haven't beached myself yet, but there's still time.
Lovely trip up the Dart, but you’re lucky with that much water. We regularly run with less than 2-3’ below the drive on the River Exe!
I've only been up the Exe once, but yes, properly shallow!
Absolutely loved this....what a place....
I love a river trip, especially really early in the morning when the birds & wildlife are all out and the people are still at home !
The dart can be awesome, was cruising in a hon wave 2.5 in totnes a couple of weeks ago with the kids . Had a family of very large seals swimming alongside and under us the whole journey. I’ve been all over the world but it was my favourite boat experience ever .
That's fantastic! 😃
As always (IMO) your ‘home’ videos are the best. We have a similar slalom course in Poole, around the islands behind Brownsea Island.
Thank you 🙂
You’ve “not been there for over a quarter of a decade” ?😂 Century perhaps? 👍😂😂😂
🤦🏻♂ @@garryrobson
Just remembered, we also have a river in Poole Harbour… the Frome… takes us to Wareham. We really should make that journey one day.
In about 1984 my father took his Princess 33mk2 from Dart Marina one evening with one of the Marina staff for navigation purposes and we had a meal in the Malsters which was indeed Floyd’s pub. We must have gone down on a rising tide as when we left the water was lapping over the top of bank and we got wet feet. I drove both ways and we went back in the dark! I doubt they do much dredging there and maybe in those days the channel was deeper?
I’d go back up the creek to the pub for a late lunch or early dinner so you have my vote
Scenery is lovely too!
Thanks for the ride along Nick
You're welcome!
Never get bored of your trips up the Dart. And it does get exciting/stressed when the depth is low. I was around the islands of Loch Lomond a few years back on a Grand Sturdy 38… with depths of 0.9m so know that feeling of will she won’t she get over. Good stuff Nick. 😎✌🏻🏴☠️
Thanks Nick and friends!
No doubt that was skinny water for the UK but.....there were sailboats back in there! lol
If you ever find yourself in the Bahamas, Abaco's you'll find truly skinny water. My boat draws 36" and is a true twin inboard, which means no trim up available. I routinely see 3ft on the sounder which means I'm churning up the bottom. On the Gulf Stream crossing there's a sandy bank we cross called the Lily Bank. There's no land in sight, however the depth when crossing gets to less than 3ft. You may ask, how do you cross it then?
Well, slowly pull up to the bank, throttle up and let the props dig a channel. lol Usually it's only a short distance to clear out. The caveat is. The water is crystal clear, and the sandy bottom is loosely packed. We could go around but that adds 10+ miles to the trip.
Oh, I should add there's no "channel" markers to follow either. Charts are usually wrong, so eyes are your go to instrument. Blue water good, brown water bad! Good thing the water is crystal clear. haha
We prefer to adjust our sender settings to show water depth below the outdrive skeg and to read in feet so that there is no need to deduct boat draft from the depth of water. Also, if shallow water running is necessary you can always jack out the outdrive a little. If you boat in christchurch uk harbour you get used to 1.0/1.5 feet below your skeg !!!
Yes. You just need to be mindful of silt intake through the cooling systems.
@@gaycha6589 I agree of course and we always have the depth alarm set to on, and we keep a look out astern if getting concerned but we don't make a habit of trying to get out of the harbour before there is sufficient water. Aquaholic had been spoilt with very deep water off the coast of Torquay and Brixham and the outer reaches of Dartmouth but he may get used to shallower water soon !
@@pcwjcw yes well said. It’s ironic that the water in the lower Dart right up to the anchor stone is in places actually deeper than Torbay and most of Start Bay.
Need to do more of these...very pleasant
Thee are quite a few on the channel, have a look at the playlists. 🙂
You should try cruising in Lough Erne Co. Fermanagh. We routinely cruise all day in 1.3 m water with 1m draft. I just turn depth sounder off 😂😂
That's the answer!! 😄
11:53 what a place to own a house. Magical.
Wow, what a beautiful setting! Great Britain at its best!
I look with admiration at the navigation skills that sailing on this type of water requires. As a totally color blind person I wouldn't dare to do this. That won't work with those colored buoys. :-) Not a good idea anyway with a view of less than 25%. So extra grateful that we can sail along a bit in this way. I'll stick to rowing & sailing, especially for the blind and visually impaired to experience that fantastic water sports feeling. Thank you Nick & friend for this beautiful sailing adventure. A watersports greeting from the Netherlands from René
You can figure it out based on the shape of the buoys, but poor vision might preclude that of course. Glad you enjoyed it!
Good bit of 'editing ' Nick... I presume you filmed the home landing before setting off...because you really ran aground!! 🤔 ...As usual an entertaining time.
Looks like a nice lake cruise down to the pub on a yacht in Canada. we have lots of shallow water lakes in are 3 western provinces
Brilliant! Thanks Nick 👍 Love this type of boating. I used to circumnavigate Portsmouth in my old Fletcher. You need to pick the exact state of tide...not enough water and you run aground, too much and you can't get under the bridges! 😅 A challenge, but great fun! 😊
Fantastic! Fletchers were great boats.
Very nice indeed. Wished we lived in that part of the world. Thanks for showing us your home Nick.
My pleasure 🙂
A nice little run out 👍Regarding the depth readings, are they calibrated from the waterline or from the sensor head on the bottom of the hull? Don't forget that it's your outdrive that makes up your 1m draught. If you get into trouble you can always lift the outdrive slightly out of the mud and still have some drive. Another is shifting ballast ie people. You can also throw the anchor and winch yourself off. Last resort is to jump off, stand in the water and push it off. 😁
Fun. Brings back memories of exploring the many channels on the river that I was boating during my teens and young adulthood. We had no depth finder. Observing behind the boat to see how much if any mud boat was stirring up tell you if you were going to get stuck soon.😁
Fantastic! 😄
Remember going up the river all the time in my dad's clinker built boat was w tidemaster i believe 1980 it was built .. can't wait to get on the water nearly there with my refit on my Wilson flyer 21 happy boating everyone ,
Awesome, good luck!
Really enjoyed this cruise up the creak ... looks a nice place to paddle, especially with the pub at the end 🤪😋😂 ... Thanks for posting 👍
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Thank you for sharing your grande day out in the shallow water! 🍷 🤗 Oh, and thanks to Steve too!
Our pleasure!
“Smugglers Blue “ took you where even your beloved Nordhavns would failed Nick !
It's a good time just watching you leisurely boat in the Dart.
Hurley 22, lovely little yacht. In the late 70s my friends father allowed us to take her from the Wareham River, to the Channel Islands, for a 2 week cruise..engine power was a Johnson 8hp twin. Remote tank. It was a bit cramped. But my girl friend at the time had no worries about that! We had mixed weather and the boat handled very well. No Vhf, loads of chart work , walker log position fixing with a borrowed RDF!
Happy days. The Hurley was called Lapwing. Enjoyed your clip. When you get to 1 metre that's when you should worry if an ebb tide. "If your not living on the edge NB , you're taking up space"😂
We had an RDF too! And a towing log. Did later fit a VHF radio - luxury!
Marvellous, however, on arrival at Braye Harbour Alderney, we were a bit off and got sucked in to the Alderney race south bound. So as my grandfather called them, we started up the "Iron Topsail" the Evinrude and battled the Ebb tide for about 3 hours, the light house hardly moving as it was our transit marker. . All good life experiences. The yacht club was a total relief after picking up our mooring and rowing in the Avon Red Start to the jetty !!!@@AQUAHOLIC
I used to have a little Galleon 22. Almost identical to the Hurley. Learnt to cruise sail on it. The shallow 3’6” draft was perfect for gunk-holing and drying harbours. Tough as old boots. It was never a problem running aground. A brilliant little boat. There was a slight compromise with the heads though: it was between the V berth up front with as little headroom as there was draft. And so to use it you had to open the foredeck hatch, which if you were rafted up with neighbours on either side in some snug harbour somewhere and with either the upper half of your body or your head poking out through the hatch, depending upon whether you were standing or sitting, was either slightly embarrassing or amusing depending upon you and your neighbours’ mood at the time. Best was to just keep smiling or use the pub loo.
Same with the Hurley!! 😄
Nice piece of skippering 👍
Thanks 👍
That was brilliant, watching the depth sounder while meandering inland from the sea. Looks like a lovely part of the world to visit, I'd be very tempted to stay for lunch.
Glad you enjoyed it! I think we'll go again when the weather is nicer. 🙂
Beautiful trip up the river, thanks!
Ham and cheese baguette if with Nick. Delicious 😊👍
👍 got it fixed on the Halaxy Tab now. Bob. ❤
Those must have been some very shallow-draft sailboats at the head of the creek! Thanks for the outing.
They would be lifting keel or bilge keel to be able to dry out.
@@AQUAHOLIC Yes, they'd have to be. But still, how shallow a draft can they have? I'd be surprised if it was less than SB2's.
That looked absolutely fantastic, so different from the deep blue.👍
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
people always for get that the sender for the depth sounder is on the bottom of the hull. So there is precisely the depth shown on the plotter below the bottom of the hull the actual depth is that shown on the plotter PLUS the draught of the boat. Great memories of a boozy lunch in the Maltsters Arms with an old friend sadly no longer with us. Thanks for the trip down memory lane Nick ❤
That's true, depending on how you've set the offset. You still have to allow for the outdrive, unless offset includes that, and some people offset the other way to give the actual water depth.
Beautiful. You should try that in a fin keeled yacht, then you'd really know depth anxiety!
The Hurley was fin keel!
With the right tides, You can take keeled boat all the way to Totnes , it’s no big dealif you follow the channel which is clearly marked all the way.
What a bit of excitement that was, weaving in and out to stay in some water 😂. Would love to see you anchor and use the tender at some point 😊. Great vid!
I saw a lovely little beach with a lawn and thought it would be the perfect spot for Marianne to to a bit of cooking for her own channel, with the boat in the background! ❤
There is a room inside the Maltster's called 'Keith Floyd Room'.
Boating ASMR !!
As for the sand bank , way rivers happen , Mort Lakes :-) etc .
Can't wait to see you and marrianne do this trip
very daring ! very enjoyable to watch too!
Thank you very much!
That was fun 😅. I do a lot of boating in Poole harbour so am used to seeing low depth numbers and playing chicken. Not ran aground yet touch wood. Thanks for sharing Nick
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
A very enjoyable jaunt! Thanks for sharing it with us. What a great location for a pub and a great way to get to it. Not a good place to be a drunken sailor though.......
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
1.3m easy peasy... I cruise my bayliner 245 on the river nene and in some places we are just under 2ft!! :)
Hey Nick!! You should have went into the pub and filmed. It would have been cool to see the inside. Never turn down a couple of pints when they are that close. Lol
I was about 16-17 years old I had a 17 foot Glasfront ( my first boat ) went to the beach for a day and didn’t realize tide was going out. Was stuck there till the next day.
No way! 🤦🏻♂️
Impressive that it doesn’t need much water to float 28 or so foot of boat!!
Lovely boat trip down the river nick and another good video 🛥🚤⛵️👍👍👍👍⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👏👏👏👏
Thanks 👍
Nice little spin out Nick ! Regardless of the weather 👍
A lovely day cruising the Dart
I know that feeling well Nick, we were in Newton Creek last week in our 805 and had 0.8m on the Garmin :-) it was a rising tide though plus the outdrive was in beach mode :-) fun though
They draw .52m, might have the props breaking the surface!
the KAD 43 powered one draws 0.54m but even in beach mode the props aren't breaking the surface, you do need to keep the revs below 1000 though
Could feel the drama there whether the water was deep enough 🙂
Hey there Nick, I thought your sounder showed water under the keel not the depth? A pint at the rubbity might have been nice, I know I'd be tempted!
It depends on how the keel offset is set (and to be honest, I need to check!)
That was fantastic to watch thanks
You're very welcome! 🙂
Lovely scenery, the head of the creek was beautiful. Thanks for sharing Nick.
Thanks for watching! 🙂
T rex
Brave boating, and the scenery was just lovely 😊Thank you very much for sharing 😀
Our pleasure!
For a minute there I thought you were careening her broadsides to scrape and re-tar the hull 🤣
Come to the east coast Nick. I can be out of sight of land and aground quite easily! 😊
Sounds like fun! 😄
Your videos are never boring even the one I watched of you on motorboat and yachting how to pack a grab bag when you had hair before marianne cut it lol and you say smugglers will float in just over a meter is that with full fuel and water tanks
It makes very little difference. 🙂
Whew! That was more exciting than a modern day Hollywood thriller, listening to Nick counting off the depth readings whilst bobbing and weaving between the buoys. Felt like the climatic bombing run scene from Dam Busters. 😆 Looking forward to Shallow Water Boating 2: The Lunch Stop.
That made me chuckle, thank you! 😄
ah....keith floyd. the original celebrity chef. i still love to watch his episodes available free on youtube. lovely highlight to your cruise. he was brilliant.
That was different, thanks Nick.
Glad you liked it!
All that way to end at a pub, and you don't have a pint! I would hand in my Aquaholics club badge if i had one. 🍺😀
There’s always an excuse for a pint even if weather not great!
can watch these videos for days!!
Glad you enjoy them 🙂
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Thanks Nick, you always do what i dream about 😊
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Another brilliant video Nick, being a fellow boater I know exactly how nervous a trip like that can be. Can't stop thinking about the less experience boaters that would just sail up there thinking that there's plenty of water the whole width of the channel.
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
The banquet boat would be a fun/interesting episode.
Loved Steve’s comment about it getting deeper when raining! But I think he had a lucky escape as I’m sure if you had run aground and had to lighten the ship it would have been “everything over the side except the Marmite” 🤠
Could be! 😄
@@AQUAHOLIC But of course, you could've just put him, and other assorted heavy items, afloat in the tender!
It happens. You jest either have to take really swift reciprocal action, or anchor from stern and then get a book out fir the next 6 hours
Where is your transducer located? If it is thruhull, do you have keel offset entered. So you can then know if it’s water level from the bottom of the boat or from surface of the water.
I do actually need to doublecheck the keel offset.
Went up there a couple of times in the summer, got down to zero reading once but we had two inches or so lol TIKITOO your neighbour but one in Noss
A really lovely run as is any day boating!
Shallow waters remind me of my Dad and running aground in Bembridge Harbour- his solution(as ever logical) was that three of us should go over the side. Fortunately my Mother was not with us!
Thanks for the video Nick, very much enjoyed it.
A question about rights of way. On the Dart you had to give way to the sailing boats as they are under sail. In Bow creek, do you have the right of way, as an encumbered vessel, because you have to stick to the channel?
I can also recommend the Banquet Boat, they do super trips out.
I think we'd find a way around each other 🙂
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AWESOME!! 😃
Another great video Nick, You are much braver than I am, 30cm of water under the boat is very brave indeed.
Nah, you only need to stop when you start churning up mud!
Glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
Brilliant! How would it compare to low tide?
It would be all mud up there at low water.
Very picturesque indeed. Glad you didn’t run aground Capt. Nick.😅
Lekker man lekker 🇿🇦
Lovely little idyllic village