The Humber splits at Trent Falls - just five miles above Brough where I was keeping Katie L. The northern arm is the Ouse - which thrusts many miles inland. The tide takes you to Naburn Lock and then up the placid non tidal stretches through York and beyond.
The Ouse is a viking river - York was the Viking captital and it was a formidable trading centre. Uncounted tonnes of freight and plunder would have passed up and down this river. The viking were riding the same tides at Katie L - looking for the back eddies and attempting to avoid the banks, the trees and and the semi-submerged snags.
I took two trips up the Ouse - one in the depths of winter and the other in the summer. It is a most splendid river.
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Great video as usual, Dylan (although the music gets a wee bit repetitive towards the end…)
Just wondering, how do you get the Topper sail/mast to stick up at the bow? Do you have some kind of well or hole where you drop in the mast? It seems a brilliant solution for sailing on narrow rivers and such.
Thanks for the video link. It all makes sense now (and I see that the foredeck of KatieL is particularly suited for this kind of modification). I just wish I could work as fast as you. Even when _not_ on fast-forward, I mean. Being a rather unhandy fellow, doing even a little thing on my boat tends to take me ages. Often I just chuck it and say “sod it, I’ll rather go sailing with what I have now…”
You can sail to York? who ever would have thought? Nice.
Dylan,
I had a question about how you rigged the dinghy sail but I see that you have already answered that.
So I will just mention that during this segment you asked what the trees in the water were called… In Canada we call them deadheads. At least, that is, on the west coast where rogue logs float around, ready to smash holes in the hulls of the unwary.
In the U.K., if the word hasn’t been created, then maybe a play on the word “flotsam” would work ? How about “wrecksam” or “snagsam” ?