Seamen Wall

Seamen Wall
Seamen Walls
Rock Type	Natural Carboniferous Limestone
Climbing Style	Sport
Approach Time	25 minutes
Area	Gower
Sub Area	Rhossili
Local Area	Rhossili Sea Level Crags
Geodata
WGS-84 Location	51.569174, -4.296596
OS Grid Ref.	SS 409 880
WGS-84 Parking Location	51.569301, -4.28840
GR Parking Location	SS 415 880
Parking Postcode	SA3 1PP
Base Elevation	0 metres (Other)
General Info
Faces Direction	North
Aspect	Rarely Sunny
Wind Sheltered	Seldomly
Climbing Type	Normal
Seepage	Quick drying
Tidal
Before/After Low Tide	1.5 hours (See Note)
Crags Within 400m
Black Wall, Castaway Cove, Keel Buttress, Lifebuoy Buttress, Mermaid Wall, Retribution Wall, Seamen Wall, Sheepbone Wall, Shipwreck Cove, Sinister Sister Zawn, Trial Wall, Wedge Wall

Tidal Status

1.5 hours before/after low tide.

Preamble

Between Castaway Cove and Mermaid Wall runs a short wall with several pocketed overhangs and corners.

The Routes

Seamen Walls
Sport Grades
<= 6a+	29
6b - 6c+	3
7a - 7b	0

Seamen Wall

1. Bored of Toad Hall - Fr. 6a
   Ascend the first cave on its right-hand side.
   
   
2. The King's Shilling - Fr. 6b**
   The overhanging crack.
   
   
3. Captain Jacque Hoff - Fr. 6b+**
   Direct asualt on the overhang via its right hand side. Same LO as previous route.
   
   
4. Concrete Cow - Fr. 6a
   Commnece the corner via a roof,gnarly start.
   
   
5. Smeatons Stump - Fr. 5+
   enter the corner from the right via easier terain.
   
   
6. Seamans Taines - VS,4c
   The crack/chimney direct,avoid eternal damnation by not clipping any handy bolts then lower off the prefixed ab rope,or top out and scramble 60m up vertical grass to the path.
   
   
7. Good Ship Venus - Fr. 5+
   Right of crack stepping left to belay of previous..
   
   
8. Lamisil - Fr. 6a
   
   
9. Zetuwit - Fr. 6b
   
   
10. Atrumen - Fr. 5
    
    
11. El Cino - Fr. 4
    
    
12. Frappacino - Fr. 4
    
    
13. Pure Cino - Fr. 6a
    
    
14. Catapult - Fr. 4
    A square cut rib.
    
    
15. Shengen - Fr. 4
    Wall R
    
    
16. border Control - Fr. 4
    Fine wall R again.
    
    
17. Checkpoint Checkout- Fr. 5
    Slim black groove.
    
    
18. Andre Marriner - Fr. 5
    Faint black groove gained from L.
    
    
19. My Maid's Mermaid - Fr. 5
    Short black corner.
    
    
20. Marinier - Fr. 6a+
    Black wall R again.
    
    
21. Black Sea Shanty - Fr. 5
    
    
22. Sea Shanty Rib - Fr. 4
    
    
23. Seaman's Sea Shanty - Fr. 5
    
    
24. Seamen In The Groove - Fr. 5
    
    
25. Thems be Barnacles, them's be - Fr. 6a
    
    
26. Operation Seaman - Fr. 5
    
    
27. Me Harty's - Fr. 4
    
    
28. Seaman's Limbo - Fr. 6a
    
    
29. kickback Tar - Fr. 4
    
    
30. Whispering Whelks - Fr. 6a
    
    
31. Barnacle Thrill - Fr. 4c
    Black rib.
    
    
32. Pumping My Bilges - Fr. 6a
    Roof
    
    
33. All Hands On The Seacocks - Fr. 4a
    Easy wall to shared belay.
    
    

Can someone draw some lines please?

First Ascents

1. Bored of Toad Hall - D.Emanuel, R.Thomas 00.09.2014
2. The King's Shilling - D.Emanuel, R.Thomas 00.10.2014
3. Captain Jacque Hoff - R.Thomas, D.Emanuel 00.09.2014
4. Concrete Cow - R.Thomas, D.Emanuel 00.10.2014
5. Smeatons Stump - D.Emanuel, R.Thomas 00.10.2014
6. Seamans Taines -
7. Good Ship Venus -
8. Lamisil -
9. Zetuwit -
10. Atrumen -
11. El Cino -
12. Frappacino -
13. Pure Cino -
14. Catapult -
15. Shengen -
16. border Control -
17. Checkpoint Checkou -
18. Andre Marriner -
19. My Maid's Mermaid -
20. Marinier -
21. Black Sea Shanty -
22. Sea Shanty Rib -
23. Seaman's Sea Shanty -
24. Seamen In The Groove -
25. Thems be Barnacles, them's be -
26. Operation Seaman -
27. Me Harty's -
28. Seaman's Limbo -
29. kickback Tar -
30. Whispering Whelks -
31. Barnacle Thrill -
32. Pumping My Bilges -
33. All Hands On The Seacocks -