The Cynical Sailor & His Salty Sidekick: The Tides & Dinghy …

And while I'm sure you pay careful attention to your tide tables and think through the implications, we've kind of slipped up in this department in the past week resulting in three dinghy misadventures. One even required the


A Capable Dinghy | The Horizon from Second Wind

On a cruise around Bainbridge Island last year (2011) I started to wish that I had a dinghy for Second Wind. ”If I really wanted to get ashore,” I told myself, “I could just beach her.” I failed to remind myself that the tide might go …

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Dinghy chat – 2/4/2012 – Bay Area Association of Disabled Sailors

Dinghy chat – 2/4/2012. Saturday was a beautiful day for the first time in a while. The winds were light although the tide extreme in the Cove.

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Dinghy chat – 2/4/2012 – Bay Area Association of Disabled Sailors


Dad's dinghy

As we climbed into the dinghy to row ashore Dad told us that we would need to leave the dinghy high up on the beach as the tide was turning and, being a very shallow beach, the sea would come a long way in. Husband and I were dragging …

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Adur Dinghy | Flickr – Photo Sharing!

15th July 2011 – 365 day 196. The sun was out, there was a breeze and the tide was high at lunchtime on the River Adur today – perfect for members of the Bridge Works (Ricardo) Sailing Club.

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THREE PEOPLE RESCUED FROM STRANDED DINGHY – Maritime and …

At 20.15, one of the adults called the Police to report that they had gone out in a dinghy on the Kingsbridge Estuary near Salcombe, and become stuck in the mud with the tide going out. The Police passed on this report …

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Wet and Wild at the New England Dinghy Champs – JibeTalk

Ken Legler, head coach at Tufts, sent these pics from the New England Dinghy Champs. Rotations off the beach near Point Judith, RI were very exciting as the tide came up on Saturday and the shore break increased. Ken said…

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Plumber's fish quay dinghy rescue – Local – Whitby Gazette

A PLUMBER was saved by Whitby’s inshore lifeboat after attempts to rescue him with an inflatable dinghy failed. Adam Brown was completing urgent maintenance under the Fish Quay last Thursday (3 February) when the tide turned, …

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Plumber's fish quay dinghy rescue – Local – Whitby Gazette


Raft Dinghy

Raft Dinghy can som1 please help me with this maths equation? A dinghy has sunk and the survivors are on a life raft. Their distance (in km) from a river estuary is changing as the tide goes out and comes in again.

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