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== Location ==
 
== Location ==
  
12 miles out at sea on a bearing of about 140 from Southwold Harbour, Suffolk, UK.
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2) 12 miles out at sea on a bearing of about 140 from Southwold Harbour, Suffolk, UK.
  
 
== Participants ==
 
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Find someone with a boat willing to make a 24 mile round trip. The weather is OK for late February but this is a long shot! If successful, the record set by Atlanta in 2009 will be in real danger!
 
Find someone with a boat willing to make a 24 mile round trip. The weather is OK for late February but this is a long shot! If successful, the record set by Atlanta in 2009 will be in real danger!
  
== Expedition ==
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== Expedition - Fail ==
 
 
 
 
  
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Realised I had almost no cash - found a cash-point.
  
 
*Now boat hunting in Southwold.  -- [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] ([[User talk:Sourcerer|talk]]) [http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.31758118&lon=1.66691780&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF @52.3176,1.6669] 10:58, 27 February 2015 (GMT)
 
*Now boat hunting in Southwold.  -- [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] ([[User talk:Sourcerer|talk]]) [http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.31758118&lon=1.66691780&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF @52.3176,1.6669] 10:58, 27 February 2015 (GMT)
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*Spoke to harbour master. I'm doomed. My kingdom for a boat.  -- [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] ([[User talk:Sourcerer|talk]]) [http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.32079983&lon=1.66205227&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF @52.3208,1.6621] 11:13, 27 February 2015 (GMT)
 
*Spoke to harbour master. I'm doomed. My kingdom for a boat.  -- [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] ([[User talk:Sourcerer|talk]]) [http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.32079983&lon=1.66205227&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF @52.3208,1.6621] 11:13, 27 February 2015 (GMT)
  
*Now heading towards Beccles Airport, Rainair. Maybe I can get a 30 minute trial flight.  -- [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] ([[User talk:Sourcerer|talk]]) [http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.33673751&lon=1.66827500&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF @52.3367,1.6683] 11:20, 27 February 2015 (GMT)
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In Southwold, I bought a lemon sole to cook later. Tasty!
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*Now heading towards Beccles Airport, [http://www.rainair.co.uk/ Rainair]. Maybe I can get a 30 minute trial flight.  -- [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] ([[User talk:Sourcerer|talk]]) [http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.33673751&lon=1.66827500&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF @52.3367,1.6683] 11:20, 27 February 2015 (GMT)
  
 
*OK I could go skydiving but no one is doing trial flights.  -- [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] ([[User talk:Sourcerer|talk]]) [http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.43368328&lon=1.61870778&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF @52.4337,1.6187] 11:48, 27 February 2015 (GMT)
 
*OK I could go skydiving but no one is doing trial flights.  -- [[User:Sourcerer|Sourcerer]] ([[User talk:Sourcerer|talk]]) [http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.43368328&lon=1.61870778&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF @52.4337,1.6187] 11:48, 27 February 2015 (GMT)
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What fun failure can be! And it does not break my sequence of 13 consecutive expeditions because I already hashed Cambridge at 00:02 hours! I plan to book into rehab' on Sunday March 1st.
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== Photos ==  
 
== Photos ==  
  
 
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Image:2015-02-27 51 1 Sourcerer 01.jpg | High performance trip boat not operating
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Image:2015-02-27 51 1 Sourcerer 02.jpg | Southwold Harbour looking nice
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Image:2015-02-27 51 1 Sourcerer 03.jpg | The closed base for the trip boats
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Image:2015-02-27 51 1 Sourcerer 04.jpg | Trip boat information
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Image:2015-02-27 51 1 Sourcerer 05.jpg | The harbour master's office
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Image:2015-02-27 51 1 Sourcerer 06.jpg | Yessss! It's open. Drat - no trips are running in the winter.
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Image:2015-02-27 51 1 Sourcerer 07.jpg | Beccles Airport - Training flight - touch and go
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Image:2015-02-27 51 1 Sourcerer 08.jpg | Beccles Airport - Taxiing
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Image:2015-02-27 51 1 Sourcerer 09.jpg | Beccles Airport - Sky divers on the ground
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Image:2015-02-27 51 1 Sourcerer 10.jpg | Beccles Airport - Taxiing
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Image:2015-02-27 51 1 Sourcerer 11.jpg | Beccles Airport - Sky diver in flight
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Image:2015-02-27 51 1 Sourcerer 12.jpg | Track Log (Southword Harbour)
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Image:2015-02-27 51 1 Sourcerer 13.jpg | Track Log (Beccles Airport)
 
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== Achievements ==
 
== Achievements ==
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Latest revision as of 10:17, 28 March 2022

Fri 27 Feb 2015 in Norwich, UK:
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Location

2) 12 miles out at sea on a bearing of about 140 from Southwold Harbour, Suffolk, UK.

Participants

Sourcerer

Plans

Find someone with a boat willing to make a 24 mile round trip. The weather is OK for late February but this is a long shot! If successful, the record set by Atlanta in 2009 will be in real danger!

Expedition - Fail

Realised I had almost no cash - found a cash-point.

In Southwold, I bought a lemon sole to cook later. Tasty!

What fun failure can be! And it does not break my sequence of 13 consecutive expeditions because I already hashed Cambridge at 00:02 hours! I plan to book into rehab' on Sunday March 1st.

Photos

Achievements

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Sourcerer earned the Organisational Failure Achievement
by failing to establish links with yacht or private aircraft owners who might be dragged along to the (52, 1) geohash on 2015-02-27.

Expeditions and Plans

2015-02-27
Jakarta, Indonesia ARizqiP Crossroad of Jl. Jatinegara Kaum and Jl. Bekasi Timur Raya, East Jakarta.
Cambridge, United Kingdom Sourcerer 1) In a field close to a public path in the grounds of Clopton Hall, west o...
Norwich, United Kingdom Sourcerer 2) 12 miles out at sea on a bearing of about 140 from Southwold Harbour, Su...
Warszawa West, Poland Ziemek Berm of the Świerszcza street in Warszaw (Ursus district)



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