The big move
High tide this morning was at 11:32am - The GD was ready to go well before this, so as soon as it started to float, (about 10:30), 3 ribs, the jaffa and one large tug, pushed, pulled, nudged and generally manhandled the GD out of its mooring.
The exceptional high tide, floated to GD higher than most people normally see it, and with it moving for the first time in a VERY long time, many people had come out to see the spectacle. The next door sailing centre even put out a few armchairs on the sea wall to relax in, while they watched!
It had to be turned, so that it would go thru the gap in the mud bank, that had been dug in the last week.
With the tug pulling, and the other craft keeping it at the correct angle, it passed between the poles marking the dug out area, with no problems.
This is the view of the GD as it was pulled down the channel next to the footpath, on its way to the headland.
Nearly out of Bosham channel where it has lived for so many years.
The tug that was meant to take it round to the river Thames, broke down yesterday, so the harbour master had laid a temporary mooring in the deep water channel between "Fairway" and "Chalk Dock". The GD will sit here for a few days until the Thames tug is fixed and comes to take her to her new home.
Can you spot what is missing from this picture !?!
A view that very few poeple have ever seen!
High tide this morning was at 11:32am - The GD was ready to go well before this, so as soon as it started to float, (about 10:30), 3 ribs, the jaffa and one large tug, pushed, pulled, nudged and generally manhandled the GD out of its mooring.
The exceptional high tide, floated to GD higher than most people normally see it, and with it moving for the first time in a VERY long time, many people had come out to see the spectacle. The next door sailing centre even put out a few armchairs on the sea wall to relax in, while they watched!
It had to be turned, so that it would go thru the gap in the mud bank, that had been dug in the last week.
With the tug pulling, and the other craft keeping it at the correct angle, it passed between the poles marking the dug out area, with no problems.
This is the view of the GD as it was pulled down the channel next to the footpath, on its way to the headland.
Nearly out of Bosham channel where it has lived for so many years.
The tug that was meant to take it round to the river Thames, broke down yesterday, so the harbour master had laid a temporary mooring in the deep water channel between "Fairway" and "Chalk Dock". The GD will sit here for a few days until the Thames tug is fixed and comes to take her to her new home.
Can you spot what is missing from this picture !?!
A view that very few poeple have ever seen!
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