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Location

In Breydon water where the rivers Waveney and Yare meet, Burgh Castle, Norfolk, UK. w3w

Participants

Plans

I'll see if I can hire a day boat at Burgh Castle Marina. High tide is at 10:25 local time. The hashpoint is about 40 metres outside the navigable channel but a small craft might be able to reach the point at high tide.

Expedition

No boats available at Burgh Castle Marina. -- Sourcerer (talk) @52.5779,1.6502 09:15, 28 September 2015 (GMT+01:00)

Closest approach by land (370 metres). -- Sourcerer (talk) @52.5866,1.6526 09:26, 28 September 2015 (GMT+01:00)

The track log image shows where I went.

Got a hire boat at Saint Olaves. -- Sourcerer (talk) @52.5403,1.6157 10:31, 28 September 2015 (GMT+01:00)

Once I had the boat, the rest was "plain sailing" from Saint Olaves to Burgh Castle. I arrived at high tide, as planned, although this was an hour later than I thought (to my advantage). With the full super-moon it was a spring tide with deeper water than usual. I risked leaving the channel and crept 45 metres to the hashpoint, ready to reverse out at the smallest sign of going aground. I didn't attempt to get proof photos at the zero mark. There was wind and current and it would not have been a good idea to lose attention and drift aground, to be stuck for 10 to 12 hours before the next high tide. The track-log will have to suffice. In the relative safety of the navigable channel, I took the evidence photos, about 50 metres from the zero mark.

The boat cruise took two hours. The craft looked like a speed boat but it had a clunky diesel engine and barely managed to achieve the 5 or 6 mph river speed limits.

Photos

Land fail
Land fail
Land fail
Still about 4km to go
Getting close
Track in Google Earth
Zoomed out track
Arrived - the view
Arrived - the view
Back at the boatyard
The boat
The boat

Achievements

Sourcerer earned the Water geohash achievement

by reaching the (52, 1) geohash on 2015-09-28 by boat.

Expeditions and Plans

2015-09-28
Paderborn, Germany	GeorgDerReisende	The hash lay on the fieldway passing the motorway rest area Wewelsburg ...
Norwich, United Kingdom	Sourcerer	In Breydon water where the rivers Waveney and Yare meet, Burgh Castle, Norf...
Nilsiä, Finland	Pastori, The Wife	Valtimo, Pajukoski. The point lies in a spruce forest, on the bank of a dit...

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Sourcerer's Expedition Links

2015-09-27 52 1 - 2015-09-28 52 1 - 2015-09-29 52 1 - KML file download of Sourcerer's expeditions for use with Google Earth.

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 *No boats available at Burgh Castle Marina.  -- [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] ([[User talk:Sourcerer|talk]]) [http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.57793784&lon=1.65024519&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF @52.5779,1.6502] 09:15, 28 September 2015 (GMT+01:00)
-*Closest approach by land.  -- [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] ([[User talk:Sourcerer|talk]]) [http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.58664966&lon=1.65262699&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF @52.5866,1.6526] 09:26, 28 September 2015 (GMT+01:00)
+*Closest approach by land (370 metres).  -- [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] ([[User talk:Sourcerer|talk]]) [http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.58664966&lon=1.65262699&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF @52.5866,1.6526] 09:26, 28 September 2015 (GMT+01:00)
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Mon 28 Sep 2015 in Norwich, UK: 52.5874809, 1.6473152 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox