First was a quick trip to Hunstanton to review the situation with the Sheraton. The Sheraton has been the site of some significant survey work over the least few years and the subject of a number of NAS Part II's as well. We weren't planning on any additional survey work but for those of us who'd not had a chance to see her before it was a great opportunity to see how all the hard work of previous years translated when confronted by the real thing.
The months of weather since last seasons survey had certainly had their impact and a number of new objects had clearly been uncovered and will need future survey work.
Unfortunately time constraints meant we had no more than time for a quick look around before headed off to Holme Next The Sea about 4 miles to the west.
This was the site of our proper survey work for the day, the Vina. The Vina was a barque strandard in the intertidal zone around 1883 and a surprisping amount is still to be found. as can be seen in the picture of the substantial boiler
Having left the total station survey equipment behind due to our limited sucess on the Saturday (and the long treck and waist deep wade required to reach the site), we were on manual measurments for this survey...
Having lost Chris and Ben from the Saturday we'd also gained Jezz and having worked with him in the past we'd soon set out a baseline and Gary marked up the detail points for measurement. While Jezz, Nicola and I started recording transects, Mark started on the sketches and Simon and Pat were on photo recording duty as well as fielding the many questions for interested beach goers who had swam the channel to see what we were up to.
Unfortantly the tidal situation meant we couldn't spend as long on the wreck as it deservered but we still obtained a wealth of information to enable us to comence drafting the inital survey.
After what seemed like a much longer treck back to the car park than it had been out and a quick debriefing and plans for the next steps for each of us it was back home for a much earned beer.
There is now more information on the NAS East Anglia site following the survey weekend - feel free to take a look at
http://sites.google.com/site/naseastanglia/home
Keep an eye for future updates next weekend as 20th/21st August is the Anchor recording course.
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