On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Neil Arlidge <[email protected]> wrote: > It is near on impossible to go from Denver out on the Great Ouse (as it is > so silted) as you will run out of water on the ebb and be lucky to get to > Kings Lynn. There are waiting buoys just downstream of the first bridge just > above Kings Lynn. We have always tended to do the tricky stuff incoming on a > flood tide. > I would say, although we left early on the flood to get up the Great Ouse to > Denver in one (and in the dark at the end), this was necessary to pass over > the terrible silting around the site of the old Railway Bridge, just above > Wiggenhall Saint Mary Magdalen. You can see this on Google Earth and Windows > Local Live aerials.
I did have a look at getting from Denver to Boston when the national was at St Ives. Dad chickened out, but my plan was to leave Denver as early as possible on the flood and push it as far as possible, thus reaching the shallows near high water - though you do then have to worry about hights on the bridges. Then hopefully would have enough distance down the river to make it to the wash, and then return up the Whittam. The weather in the end was a little variable and so we did it the long way around, and I never got further in my planning than that. Mike -- Michael Askin http://shoestring_DOT_zapto_DOT_org/
