A route through the sunk?? hmmmmmm!!!!

[Ianqv]

First off.......... please don't shoot the messenger!!!
I was talking to a fishermen regarding passage through the sunk, he replied with "that's easy, all you yachties do it wrong".
So I obviously asked how does he do it?
He replied with the following:
Draw a straight line between 51 37 861 & 001 17 404 TO 51 38 104 & 001 16 21
I asked him to double check and he confirmed that those figures were correct!!
I keep looking at the chart and it takes you right across the sunk.
See attached pic.
He (the fishermen) added you can get through at ANY state of any tide!!
I personally think this may not be right!! however, if he is right he has just given us a FANTASTIC route (although unlikely!!)
May I ask........ the next time one of us is down there......... can you give it a try (if safe to do so).

As I said at the start............ PLEASE don't shoot the messenger, I'm just relaying the info!!!!!!! - just in case it is right!!!

Regards

Ian and Sarah

P.S Don't shoot the messenger!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Athene V30]

I'll follow you!! Oh sorry forgot, boat is ashore!

 

[tillergirl]

He is probably right! The data on which that drying patch is drawn is taken from 2003 to 2006 and I saw no sign of it two weeks ago while Mystique's Knoll was - as you could see high and dry. This area shifts all the time. When I did this year's survey, there was a yacht coming north the other side (to the north-east) of Mystique's Knoll so there is clearly a route there. I was intending to give it a go when I finished the data runs but frankly ran out of time. Here's the image of the yacht, Sail No GBR 2903L?.

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If anyone knows them it would be worth asking. Best guess, they were south-west of that track you have been given but that picture is on 24x zoom so I could be wrong. Been eyeing up the weather and tides to perhaps get down there again to explore that side of the Knoll. Bit tied up for the next two weeks but might thereafter.

 

[tillergirl]

There is also the issue of the two fouls on that track.

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I know that a FOUL is supposed to be no longer dangerous to surface craft but if you consider this one on the Buxey

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and then see that the FOUL is this

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It does make you think twice about prospecting!