2015-02-28 52 1

Location

1.9 km out at sea near Hopton (Norfolk) and Corton (Suffolk), UK.

Participants

Plans

Go to the beach, as close as possible and then cry! Return home and search for Boat Shares and Day Skipper certification. These marine hashpoints are getting me down.

There are cliffs which are eroding rapidly. The beach can be unsafe at high tide.

You don't want to be too close if there is a land slide.

BBC Report - House Falls Into The Sea

Perhaps I can do a message in a bottle Macgyver Achievement. I have checked the Met Office charts for wind direction to estimate where to launch the bottle for it to sail to the hashpoint. I have checked for tidal flows. If I launch before noon, there should be little tidal flow and the wind should take the bottle to the point.

Here is the message and its bottle.

and

Expedition - Fail

The point was 1.9 km out at sea. Am I doomed never to reach these points? Will I ever complete my minesweeper with North_Sea_53,_1?

RYA Day Skipper - Get the qualification!
Boat Share - Buy a boat share.
Lowestoft Boat Charter - Or perhaps charter a boat with a trained skipper.

Launched Macgyver bottle - Failed - Retrieved bottle. Now seeking a better launch point. -- Sourcerer (talk) @52.5339,1.7392 11:55, 28 February 2015 (GMT)

Macgyver bottle re-launch - Success - Bottle heading south and out to sea. -- Sourcerer (talk) @52.5720,1.7386 12:24, 28 February 2015 (GMT)

The cliffs at the first launch point were creating a wind vortex which caused the launched Macgyver bottle to sail ashore almost immediately. Plan B was to head north and make use of the tide now flowing south after the time delay. Away from the cliffs, the wind would push the bottle out to sea. This worked perfectly. Of course the fatal flaw was the lack of any ability to track the launched bottle. The technology exists and has been used to track whales, dolphins and birds but never Macgyver bottles.

Photos

Track logs and launch points
Beach access
Ignore this sign
This is more of a problem
Closest approach 1.9km
Gorleston Harbour Wall - New launch point
Waves in the harbour entrance
The Macgyver Bottle
The Macgyver Bottle on its journey

Achievements

Sourcerer earned the MacGyver Achievement Honourable Mention

by launching a message in a bottle taking account of both wind and tide in the hope that it would reach the hashpoint at (52, 1) geohash on 2015-02-28.

Watch this space in case someone finds the message-in-the-bottle and posts here. How cool would that be?

Expeditions and Plans

2015-02-28
Des Moines, Iowa	Trenchcoat	Somewhere
Portland, Oregon	Jim	North of Beaverton, near Barnes Road
Frankfurt am Main, Germany	GeorgDerReisende	The hash lies on the cycle path along the state road from Garbenteich to Li...
Rotterdam, Netherlands	FelixTheCat	In Mastenbos forest, just south of Breda.
Norwich, United Kingdom	Sourcerer	1.9 km out at sea near Hopton (Norfolk) and Corton (Suffolk), UK.

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