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[Closed] Taking a boat directly across the Bristol Channel

SaxonRider · 2019-08-30T14:56:11Z

Forgive what may be the stupidity and ignorance of this question, but I was at Ogmore-by-sea looking out across the Bristol Channel at the Devon coastline and wondering: If someone lived on one side of the Channel and worked on the other, could s/he conceivably commute by boat? If so, how big a boat would one need? Would something like this work? Regardless, what would be the running costs? What stops people from doing this instead of driving places? I'm not actually planning on doing such a thing, but I did grow up going to various lakes in Manitoba, Canada, where boats were used for all sorts of things, and always wondered why, in my home city of Winnipeg, people didn't just commute on the river(s) that ran through the city, so I am finally asking in the British (and coastal) context. Couldn't it mean that people who lived in Cardiff and/or Newport could commute to places like Weston-Super-Mare and vice versa? EDIT: If my bow rider example above wouldn't work, what about a substantial RIB?

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canopy

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yup! - and there are lots of big signs!

I'm from taunton originally and we went to brean on an end of primary school trip, which would have been in spring '87 only a few years after your trip - some clasmates got in truoble for getting mucky climbinbg into a roofless car. i believe they were all removed from the beach a few years later.

Posted : 05/09/2019 10:46 am

5plusn8

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I am sure I read on here about someone commuting by light aircraft from Newquay to Swansea.

Posted : 05/09/2019 11:22 am

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