On 25 Jul 2008, at 14:29, Baz Juniper wrote:
> There wasn't all that much water, though. IIRC the
> technique adopted was to leave the engine in idle in forward gear and
> for all three of us on board to stand forward and fend off from the
> tunnel walls. Passage took about 20 mins.
Seemed a good deal longer to me stuck at the back, whilst you and Dave
H were messing about at the pointy end. After a "while" I concluded
that my end was making hardly any progress on the inbound transit to
Hawne so I decided to leave the tiller and see if the sharp end was
having better success. Uncle Mort draws something like 30 inches at
the stern when under way and I thought that the best chance of making
headway was
1) leave in gear at just over idle
2) get as much weight forward to trim the bow down as much as poss
3) leg through using our hands
> We were made welcome at
> Hawne Basin and the bar was opened for our edification and delight.
Yes indeed the Hawne basin "person" was very hospitable, but I had pre-
booked. At the weekend there will surely be more folk about.
IIRC there is a flow through the tunnel away from Hawne. The return
trip seemed much quicker.
I'm really pleased to have made the trip and would probably do it
again. The most daunting part of the whole BCN experience was getting
through the silted up toll islands, that is if you disregard the the
Dave H man-boob situation that occurred just before 10:25 as Baz's
photo record provides due testament !
Beeky
nb O2B cruising again
