A low , low tide this evening on the Orwell

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and for the nxt 3 days. i have never seen the river so low, many boats aground on moorings.
pix tomorrow once i have had a good kip.
The pontoon party in the RNSYC was very noisy & went on very late, we needed to be up early :disgust:
 
Never seen it so low at Felixstowe Ferry as it was Saturday night....should be even lower tonight (0.19) so will try and get down and take some pix
 
Super low at Studland, with friends who've been going there for decades saw parts of the beach they'd never seen. Mooring buoys in the bay are useless except for short stops, everyone would ground at LW. The neaps in a few days are also weird, the tidal curve is almost flat one one day.
 
I ran aground about 20 ft from my 'deep' water mooring on freston reach just up from the orwell bridge, I use the term deep loosely, at about 7pm last night-hw at 8pm, h to sit it out until the refloat. had that mooring for 12 years now but think its time to find a deeper one, in the true sense of the word as its very silty now..........any offers?
 
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I imagine Sniper has sewed at low water for a couple of days. Always possible to tell by the muddy tide marks up the top sides and occasionally mud in the cockpit if something big has passed kicking up a wash while she is lying over.
 
Sat. evening, we left Shotley no probs. but struggled around Pye End, but Walton channel and Stone Point lots of water comparatively.
Not seen the ' Bore' off Harwich so visible before, and kindly marked by someone having a 'scrub'..
 
markwyld said:
Sat. evening, we left Shotley no probs. but struggled around Pye End, but Walton channel and Stone Point lots of water comparatively.
Not seen the ' Bore' off Harwich so visible before, and kindly marked by someone having a 'scrub'..
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The "Bore" not heard that before, would you be kind enough to enlighten me?
 
..the 'Bore'..the shallow bit on lhs as you go into Harwich, between the breakwater and Harwich town harbour where the pilot boats operate from..prob. got a real name, but wasn't there a large shed with 'Bore' written on it?
 
Little Grebe said:
Isn't that Harwich Shelf?
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Exactly so, never heard it called the Bore, although I have also seen it referred to as the Guard shoal, so perhaps Harwich Shelf is only the name of the buoy that marks the end.

I do remember the shed that had BORE on the roof, being the name of the company that operated from there I believe? Our lads used to refer to that berth as the "Borehole" and you had/have to be wary of ships that may suddenly depart from there across your bows when entering from the breakwater direction. Should not be a surprise these days if monitoring Ch 71, but back then we had no radios in our dayboat.
 
Three RHYC yachts now in Guernsey- Orcana Sigma 38, Barnacle Goose -Arcona 34 and a Grand Soleil, not bad considering the weather of late. Mind you we are the Victoria marina and high tide has been pretty impressive with every space available taken. The visitor pontoons are bulging. Moonrise over Sark very impressive.
 
Low tide on Orwell some poor sailor this afternoon misjudged and is now stuck in mud leaning over a little and probably can't even go ashore and will be there till morning tide a lesson learnt Orwell is not that flat as you mite think
 
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