Upper Deben

This information crammed video explores the Deben from Prettyman’s Point to Woodbridge taking in The Rocks, Waldringfield and Martlesham Creek.

Dylan wanders this reach for two or three days; we see and admire too many classes of boat to enumerate but good coverage is given to the Dragonflies and Wayfarers at Waldringfield (some lovely roll tacking).

The extraction of phosphates from fossil dinosaur dung is explained as is its loss as a business to imported guano. We find out about hibernating mullet and how Loaders Cut got its name; Dylan is amused by the rocks at “The Rocks” (they are not really what one would describe as “rocks”). There are interesting interviews with Andy Seedhouse in his boatyard and with Geoff Sinton in his 100 year old “temporary” shiplap-built shed at the Woodbridge Boatyard.

Dylan trials Geoff’s small dinghy and admires it, but not its price