Helicopter rescue on Breydon Water

[ditchcrawler]

A cruiser went on the mud on Breydon and they had to be airlifted of by helicopter. Unfortunately Trevor did a runner on the mud flat and was rescued later by a tug.

https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/holiday-makers-rescued-from-hire-cruiser-breydon-water-norfolk-1-6849480 

[bizzard]

Hullaballoos again.

[Guest]

5 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:

A cruiser went on the mud on Breydon and they had to be airlifted of by helicopter. Unfortunately Trevor did a runner on the mud flat and was rescued later by a tug.

https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/holiday-makers-rescued-from-hire-cruiser-breydon-water-norfolk-1-6849480 

Ive never understood how boats manage to ground on Breydon. The channel is very clearly marked.

 

Of course if your engine or drive packs in that would different.

 

Broads rangers were turning boats back yesterday as they were heading towards Yarmouth too early to get under the bridges.

 

Sometimes people are just too stupid to be allowed out without a resonsible adult.

[Keeping Up]

I grounded there while sailing in the early 1970s, here is the account (copied from my website)

 

In the gales we had an unfortunate incident on Breydon Water, which is a tidal lake about 6 miles long and one mile wide. It dries out completely at low tide, apart from a narrow central channel between two rows of marker posts. Heading towards Yarmouth on a falling tide, and carrying a bit too much sail for the conditions, we gybed badly and lost control of the boat which sailed itself out of the main channel and into the mud where it stuck fast. Another boat alerted the authorities, who soon arrived with a strange-looking tugboat. They were worried that with the keel of our boat stuck in the mud, and the boat now lying well over to one side, it might not re-float when the tide came back up. We waited, high-and-dry with mud all around us, for the tide to come in again just a little so they could steer their tugboat on to the mud on the other side of the channel - and sink it! Yes, they just opened some valves and sunk it, driving a set of underwater hydraulic legs deep into the mud. They then stretched a steel hawser across to us, and as the tide rose further they winched us bodily out of the mud and into the main channel. We sailed off leaving them where they were - apparently they would now wait another 12 hours for the tide to go out again, draining the water out of the tugboat, before closing the valves and waiting for the next tide to refloat them.