Narrowboat on River Severn below Portishead

[JohnEW2912]

So, my wife is staying with our nephew in Portishead. They have a view right over the Severn estuary to Wales. This morning around high tide she saw what appears to be a narrowboat going up stream below the marina. Anyone what it could have been and where it could have come from?

 

[Bargebuilder]

Back in 2016 a narrowboat visited Ilfracombe and Bude, and not entirely without incident! Perhaps they made a return visit.

 

We've done Sharpness to Portishead without a pilot, but I wouldn't venture as far a Bude. 

[TheBiscuits]

There's one that regularly does it, and he also takes the River Severn up from Sharpness to Gloucester on spring tides.

 

Not the canal, the "unnavigable" section of the river ...

 

Good for him I say, but I wouldn't on my boat!

[Steve56]

Maybe coming across from Cardiff. A few people do it. 

[blackrose]

Maybe it was someone coming down from Sharpness without a pilot who'd missed the entrance to Portishead and was on their way back. Or someone who'd left Portishead and turned the wrong way? Who knows? 

[MrsM]

Could be Wye Invader 2? I often watch his videos with awe and amazement.

[Bargebuilder]

This picture is from 2016 and I think it's Ilfracombe. The boat seems to be better suited to lumpy water than most.

[Alan de Enfield]

37 minutes ago, Bargebuilder said:

This picture is from 2016 and I think it's Ilfracombe. The boat seems to be better suited to lumpy water than most.

 

 

But it looks as if he still had to make use of the RNLI .....................

[John Brightley]

It's Wye Invader 2. They've just gone from Cardiff to Portishead. See their Facebook page here: https://m.facebook.com/2901493546558691/

[Bargebuilder]

13 minutes ago, John Brightley said:

It's Wye Invader 2. They've just gone from Cardiff to Portishead. See their Facebook page here: https://m.facebook.com/2901493546558691/

Are you sure, it doesn't look like the NB on their website?

[Scholar Gypsy]

On 18/07/2022 at 07:34, Bargebuilder said:

This picture is from 2016 and I think it's Ilfracombe. The boat seems to be better suited to lumpy water than most.

Here is a commendably honest article about this trip. The RNLI were quite busy that day .....

http://judgefamily.synology.me/scholargypsy/articles/Ilfracombe.pdf

[Alan de Enfield]

12 minutes ago, Scholar Gypsy said:

Here is a commendably honest article about this trip. The RNLI were quite busy that day .....

http://judgefamily.synology.me/scholargypsy/articles/Ilfracombe.pdf

 

The lesson "Do not put to sea in a narrowboat"

 

But whoevem much you explain to folks not to do something, they will,  just ask IanD

[John Brightley]

On 18/07/2022 at 09:37, John Brightley said:

It's Wye Invader 2. They've just gone from Cardiff to Portishead. See their Facebook page here: https://m.facebook.com/2901493546558691/

Video now online here: https://youtu.be/PzWvD3hY6_Q

[Onionman]

15 hours ago, Scholar Gypsy said:

Here is a commendably honest article about this trip. The RNLI were quite busy that day .....

http://judgefamily.synology.me/scholargypsy/articles/Ilfracombe.pdf

 

Oh my word. I'm so tense after just reading that!

[John Brightley]

Video of Cardiff to Portishead journey now online here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAwpYmQcNWo&t=6529s

[IanD]

On 19/07/2022 at 21:58, Alan de Enfield said:

 

The lesson "Do not put to sea in a narrowboat"

 

But whoevem much you explain to folks not to do something, they will,  just ask IanD

You just can't resist any opportunity for a dig, can you?

 

Haven't you got anything better to do, like horrifying a newbie about to go out on a river in safe conditions by posting a photo of an (extremely rare) sunken boat?

 

To be clear, your advice was absolutely fine, but the photo was pure Daily-Wail-style scaremongering -- would you really have been happy if she'd cancelled that part of her trip and turned back as a result?

 

I know you believe in taking every possible safety precaution -- justified or not -- but that was taking it too far... 😞

Edited October 11, 2022 by IanD