Report - Underground boating - Castle Moat Bristol 03/10 - Updated & extended trip! - May 2012

[Styru]

Re: Underground boating - Castle Moat Bristol 03/10 - Updated & extended trip! - May

Nice to see UR doing UR bit for the Jubilee with those Union Jack boats - Lol!
Fantastic report mate.

The union jack one was the earlier report from 2 years ago - it's still going strong, but as my 'reserve' boat now.

 

[anubis]

Re: Underground boating - Castle Moat Bristol 03/10 - Updated & extended trip! - May

Nice mate.
Fascinating place in there by the looks of it though.

 

[urbanity]

Re: Underground boating - Castle Moat Bristol 03/10 - Updated & extended trip! - May

The very best regatta location is a short way back up the river

 

[Styru]

Re: Underground boating - Castle Moat Bristol 03/10 - Updated & extended trip! - May

The very best regatta location is a short way back up the river

How far we talking? - I reckon this one is still a front runner:

 

[urbanity]

Re: Underground boating - Castle Moat Bristol 03/10 - Updated & extended trip! - May

Brotherload would be good - the problem with a lot of the boating locations is parking.

 

[Shocktictacs]

Re: Underground boating - Castle Moat Bristol 03/10 - Updated & extended trip! - May

Brotherload would be good - the problem with a lot of the boating locations is parking.

For brotherload, park up nearer to staples or something, and drop in from that end. Next to the Titanic infall and head upstream, with a boat or on dryland by foot.

 

[spungletrumpet]

Re: Underground boating - Castle Moat Bristol 03/10 - Updated & extended trip! - May

Yes I need that updated version of the challenger 200, be fucked if I'm blowing up armbands with Spungletrumpet :

Man up FFS...

 

[urbanity]

Re: Underground boating - Castle Moat Bristol 03/10 - Updated & extended trip! - May

For brotherload, park up nearer to staples or something, and drop in from that end. Next to the Titanic infall and head upstream, with a boat or on dryland by foot.

yeah - it's abandoned canal tunnels we've done where you couldn't get away with a mass gathering.

 

[Degenatron]

Re: Underground boating - Castle Moat Bristol 03/10 - Updated & extended trip! - May

Excellent report. It looks like great fun. I enjoyed reading it.

 

[dave29]

Re: Underground boating - Castle Moat Bristol 03/10 - Updated & extended trip! - May

hahaha loved this! great report

 

[Styru]

Re: Underground boating - Castle Moat Bristol 03/10 - Updated & extended trip! - May

Re-did this one by Kayak a week or two back - no particular hassle getting the boats down/up the penstocks.

 

[tumbles]

Re: Underground boating - Castle Moat Bristol 03/10 - Updated & extended trip! - May

Good work, my brother tells me fondly when he did this with the scouts about 30 years ago. That now makes me feel old.

 

[Bloomers]

Re: Underground boating - Castle Moat Bristol 03/10 - Updated & extended trip! - May

Love it! i was wondering what to do with the 2 man dingy ive recently aquired...

 

[Oxygen Thief]

Always a good day out under there. The whole floating harbour is interesting really, must do another day out there on the kayaks.

 

[dweeb]

Funny seeing this, I've just kind of got back into doing a bit of river mooching in the past few weeks.

I really enjoyed that evening, would be grand to do it again and take a ride down the fast flowing bit!