aquaplane wrote:Well I have read "Magic of the Swatchways" and I can't decide about the East Coast Rivers. There seems to be lots of drifting up rivers on the tide at night with hardly any way on, which I can cope with, glorious sunsets under big skies, again Ok.
Mucking about bouncing over sandbanks in short steep breaking seas knowing the boat will get pounded to matchwood in seconds if it runs out of water altogether doesn't sound to be much fun.
Then there is that 4 week old fourty footer that lost it's keel over christmas.
I take it that someone who likes to play it reasonably safe can sail round there and get from one river to another without too big an adrenalin rush.
Its not like that anymore, that was back in the old days. Big improvements to the swatchways now. We filter the water, and have painted the bottom blue so it looks like the carib. We also dredged it out to stop scaredy people going bump, which means there is no more steep chop. We also installed free mooring posts everywhere so you can stop where you like now, and we really improved the signage with proper directions rather than those stupid round buoy things. Best thing of all was the tourist board handing out free beer and ice cream vouchers to all visitors. Its like paradise, with lesbians too.
