We leave Douglas to sail to Whitehaven in Cumbria and explain how we plan the passage and Gaynor finds out how little she knows about fishing. ----- Lifeboat...

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so gainer why are we up here what are we

doing well we're looking at the camera

obscura and also the lighthouse but

we're also looking at the sea state to

see what it looks like because we're

going to be going out tonight this is

the channel into Douglas harbour

fortunately it usually has a bit more

water in it than it does right now but

you can see the deepest part of the

channel down in the middle and you can

see all the mud and rocks particularly

near the entrance that you've got to

avoid because the weather's not bad but

the sea conditions are forecast to be a

bit of design so we thought we'd scuba

this before we start and take you

through it so where we gonna start ok

well we're gonna start in Ramsey Douglas

well we're going to start in Douglas

which is in the middle of the Isle of

Man and then we're going to go up to the

mooring boys that we saw in Ramsey when

we went for the survey so once we're in

Ramsey on the mooring boys we're going

to go across to Whitehaven which is just

here

the reason we're going to do this in two

stages is in round the isle of man tide

is everything and if you want to come

into Ramsey then you want to be taking

the tide that brings you into Ramsey

which Douglass is we're going to be

leaving Douglas on high water and then

the tide very close in to the Isle of

Man it'll carry us up it will carry us

up to Ramsey to Ramsey but then we have

to wait in Ramsey until the low tide and

the low tide and then once we're on the

low tide the currents then start sending

you out and one of our way markers is

this one which is Mohammed Mohammed

Cardinal from the trip that we took in

the electric train we went to see these

mooring boys which are here just at the

end of the pier and looking at the pier

because we're going to be mooring at

night there is a flashing red beacon

which has got a five second interview

it's four meters above the ground and it

has a five meter visibility five

nautical miles five nautical miles okay

so they've got five nautical miles

visibility now that's different from the

two which are at the end of the harbor

which are quick read they're eight

meters above the chart datum and they

can be seen for ten nautical miles yes

so in other words we're gonna see that

quick read and quick green long before

we see the other ad

yeah

and from our recce

we know that the mooring boys are just

hearing around the 1.7 meter line so

it's going to be a bit on the risky side

because our boat is 1.6 meters but

because of the tide we should still be

fine because you know we should be okay

there but still going to be a little bit

riskier than 1.7 meters our boats 1.6

keel

this is five hours before high water at

Dover so this is effectively low tide

and as you can see at low tide the

currents come around the top of the Isle

of Man and it's a spring tide so they'll

be giving us at least two knots of

current we don't really want to be gone

against that so by leaving here at what

is effectively little water at Douglas

and we couldn't get out of the harbour

at little water because of the tidal

flop we'll get two knots of currents

ticking us across this way toward white

him night it's a 50 mile journey roughly

so it'll take us 8 or 9 hours to do it

at some point the tide will change but

at various times over I mean if we look

at another a bit just before low water

you can see the the current is actually

strengthened in this area here and it's

at 3.2 knots in an easterly direction

and it'll get up to 3.4 knots so we're

going to get a lot of assistance going

across we could hit theatres and I not

speed over grind on this particular Road

and that would shorten our passage time

to about 6 hours which if you wonderful

so eventually when we get to high water

the currents will have swapped and they

will be going slightly northwards which

is good because if we come on an

easterly line these northward currents

will actually sweep us up to Whitehaven

which is a bite here

so on this passage if we leave Ramsey at

no water

the currents should carry us more or

less all the way to Lake Haven my next

job is to listen to the inshore waters

forecast by the UK Coast Guard which I

write on to a pre-prepared sheet I have

printed off then we got the hi and

unload water tide times for Douglas

Ramsey and whitehaven to make sure we

were going to be in the right places at

the right time

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after all the planning was complete that

it's time to go for one last walk around

Douglas before we set off in the evening

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the overnight seal from Douglas to

Ramsey went very smoothly although we

couldn't film it because it was indeed

pitch black the next morning we were

greeted with a lovely sunrise in Ramsey

Bay and we decided to mix some breakfast

before setting off Kandra decided she

would try catching breakfast which was

better than usual because no idea well

well I've got this trace which I didn't

even know was multiple Hawks anyway I

think that's supposed to be shrimp but

I've got some day-old chicken so I've

added that I really don't think I know

how to fish I have managed to sling the

hawk it's not right let's be honest

it's really ridiculous and now I realize

I've gotta bring it back all and again

because this is the time that they've

wanted me to wake her up

well Bev came up to have a look at my

fish in the cheetahs said multiple trace

line I didn't mind

wait

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nothing

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