Hull Marina

Moonshine left her moorings at Goole Boathouse on Saturday at 8am. The above photo shows her approaching Ocean Lock, Goole bound for our greatly anticipated tidal Hull trip.

 



The primary purpose of this weekends trip was to test the boost pressure of both turbo's. Since changing the engine air filters the other week we needed to see if this had made a difference, or if indeed one or both of the turbo's need refurbishing when Moonshine is lifted out in March. At the moment it looks like the starboard turbo needs some attention. Also, we had yet to test the newly installed engine mounts under load, and these appear to be a great success.

 

The only shipping we encountered was Emma, inbound for Goole on Saturday morning. Very recently the channel in the Humber has altered significantly, the channel turns south east a long way before Brough. Once passed Reeds Island the channel is very close to the Lincolnshire Bank from South Ferriby to Chalderness. The tides were very high this weekend and we were within this area at high water so there was plenty of depth.

 

The forecast was very cool for Saturday morning with the possibility of frost or even ice with a f3-4 NW breeze, with a bit of wind over tide, and we received no help at all from the tide taking us 1 hour and 5 minutes. These were a lot better boating conditions than we encountered on our previous visit to Hull in thick fog last Autumn.

 

 

Yet again, glorious crisp blue skies greeted Moonshine whilst

she lay on the visitors berth.



Hull Marina

Hull Marina

Shark sculpture, The Deep

The Deep

Low tide, River Hull

Tidal Barrier, River Hull





Sunset over the Humber Bridge

Hull by night

Hull by night



On Sunday we awoke to cloudier skies to those we had enjoyed the day before, with a f4 SW breeze with wind over tide.  We travelled at displacement speed until bouy number 23 close to the Humber Bridge due to the slightly choppy conditions, we then planed back up to Goole.  This journey took us 1 hour and 15 minutes.

Significant change of the channel

Busy day for shipping out on the River Humber on Sunday

Two more ships entering the River Trent at the Apex Light
 

Moonshine has run well with her newly refurbished propeller which has no vibration.  The new canopy sunroofs have proved themselves to be both wind and water tight due to the spray we encountered from the intermittent choppy conditions.  This weekends trip has been a great success with nothing breaking down, and at times like these it is a pleasure being a boat owner!