Waverley at Lulworth Cove

[charvey4875]

I have added some pictures of Waverley's visit to Lulworth Cove yesterday 10th Sept in the Photo Gallery.

Unfortunately I was not onboard, but it was well worth seeing from the shore!

There were quite a few surprised faces on the beach as we walked back, if you stand near the cafe, you really do not see much until her bows are in the cove!

Chris

[derekwarner_decoy]

Hi PD's.... Chris... two interesting snaps  :ohno I don't understand??

Snap ID 1414 shows the aft funnel in line with the peak of the bluf in the distance & Waverley moving FWD

Snap ID 1415 shows the fwd funnel in line with the peak of the bluf in the distance & Waverley moving ASTERN

Do I miss something here :?:  :

[charvey4875]

Hi Derek,
Lulworth Cove is a very small bay on the south coast of England if Waverley were to go too much further she would be on the beach!

Paddlers used to call here on excursion cruises. Then the practice was to tie a line form the stern of the paddler to a special bouy in the cove and gently run the bow onto the beach. Once the paddler was secure a "plank" was lowered, by the derrick normally used for shifting the anchor about, to the fore deck and secured. People could then exit via a door in the gunwhale, and walk down the plank to a similarly safety un-conscious looking device which had been wheeled into the sea as a temporary pontoon. Oh a picture says a thousand words.... www.pskc.freeserve.co.uk/vic.htm or http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/jpg/emba.jpg

Sorry the snaps are in the wrong order. The order should be 1418, 1413, 1412, 1414, 1415, 1416, 1417, 1419.


Is there a way to re-order the sides in the album?

Chris

[Roderick Smith]

Wonderful, even the mother country could work like the colonies when needed:
'...the practice was to tie a line from the stern of the paddler to a special buoy in the cove and gently run the bow onto the beach. Once the paddler was secure a "plank" was lowered, by the derrick normally used for shifting the anchor about, to the fore deck and secured. People could then exit via a door in the gunwhale, and walk down the plank to a similarly safety un-conscious looking device which had been wheeled into the sea as a temporary pontoon'.
This is so much like the Murray and Irrawaddy, and how I imagine life on the Mississippi was.
Notice in most Mississippi photos the drawbridge on the bows: they could run in close enough, and still reach the bank by lowering something resembling a medieval castle.  Modern Murray pontoon houseboats have a similar arrangement.
Traditional Murray boats could get in close enough for a portable gangplank to reach.
Along the Irrawaddy, when a gangplank couldn't reach from the boat to the shore, many places had a portable trestle in the water: the boat's plank ran to the trestle; a shore plank ran to the same trestle.
Around the world, the similarities outweigh the differences.

Regards,
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

[charvey4875]

I think that Lulworth Cove was the last place in the UK to do beach landings on scheduled excursions, but this practice was certainly used in several locations on the south coast.

One of the most famous accidents in the UK with this practice was the wrecking of the Duchess of Devonshire at Sidmouth, where an anchor would be dropped over the stern before the bow was run onto the beach. The anchor would be used to keep the stern perpendicular to the beach. In this case the anchor is thought to have slipped and the prevaling conditions ended with the Duchess of Devonshire holed and broadside to the beach.

I think that the conditions on Monday were quite favourable, but I am certainly no expert.  It was quite windy on Peppler's point, and the tide had just turned and was rising.  The biggest danger is the underwater rock shelf on the western side of the mouth, the entrance channel being slightly east of the centre of the mouth.

As a slight aside Reeds Nautical almanac basically says that mooring in Lulworth Cove is best attempted for the unfamiliar when the moon is blue!

Chris