Guise
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Southwold pier last night at low water, I reckon after this easterly our bars are going to look a bit different !
All change at the Bar?
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Southwold pier last night at low water, I reckon after this easterly our bars are going to look a bit different !
tillergirl
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Looks very cold to me. Ugh.
Seashoreman
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And there's more to come apparently.
Don't suppose 'they' will use that dramatic pic on the Holiday Home websites?
Don't suppose 'they' will use that dramatic pic on the Holiday Home websites?
snowbird30ds
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You did well to get that piccie, every time I try to get a shot of rough water it comes out looking like a duck pond on a summer day.
matthewriches
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It has been very bad today also. AND COLD OUTSIDE!
Guise
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Yes it was a bit chilly, we didn't hang around long, it was blowing 25 knots and minus 3, later last night it rose to 35 knots so must have been worse. Believe it or not that picture does not fully represent what it really looked like, I've rarely seen the beach like that hereabouts.
matthewriches
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Good fun watching them break up on the beach though. I went back inside with the heating on.
matthewriches
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A view at Southwold earlier on. Think Santa is due back!
Javelin
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How many got into work today Matt.
The two routes out from my hovel were both blocked when I attempted to come in this morning.
So I went back to bed.
The two routes out from my hovel were both blocked when I attempted to come in this morning.
So I went back to bed.
johnalison
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We got our papers this morning in Wivenhoe but the main road out of town has become blocked. Google maps shows the road across through Alresford to Brightlingsea as mostly stationary as it has been all day. It must be drifts blowing from the fields.
matthewriches
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John, Laurie, Sam and I held the side up. Put the new strip lights up on the mezzanine then gave up about 11 ish and all went home.
Tomorrow looks much the same. I did take a drive up the sea front to see what was going on but retreated back to the nice warm boat. Got a few prices for a new rear canopy and did some sanding and varnishing.
Bit rocky at the moment. Lumps of ice drifting in on the tide too!
Tomorrow looks much the same. I did take a drive up the sea front to see what was going on but retreated back to the nice warm boat. Got a few prices for a new rear canopy and did some sanding and varnishing.
Bit rocky at the moment. Lumps of ice drifting in on the tide too!
Javelin
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WIll try and get in tomorrow, need to progress that bow thruster in the Bav 40.
We've been very lucky in the last three years with the bar off Southwold.
The big Easterly we had this time last year actually made things better for us as I found I could get in and out an hour either side of LW all last season.
Trouble is there has been a bit of North in that wind and theres a big danger that that bank that had built up off the town may have been pushed down towards the entrance.
Wait a couple of weeks for it to warm up a bit and I'll go out and survey in the rib.
We've been very lucky in the last three years with the bar off Southwold.
The big Easterly we had this time last year actually made things better for us as I found I could get in and out an hour either side of LW all last season.
Trouble is there has been a bit of North in that wind and theres a big danger that that bank that had built up off the town may have been pushed down towards the entrance.
Wait a couple of weeks for it to warm up a bit and I'll go out and survey in the rib.
seasicksteve
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Guise
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The Deben estuary pilot site now says:
"Checked bar this morning 1mtr at 08.00hrs with 0.5mts on the Harwich tidetable gage,buoyage is still o k shallow areas are 100yds each side of knoll spit buoy
4 Mar 2018"
Am I right to be surprised that nothing much changed?
"Checked bar this morning 1mtr at 08.00hrs with 0.5mts on the Harwich tidetable gage,buoyage is still o k shallow areas are 100yds each side of knoll spit buoy
4 Mar 2018"
Am I right to be surprised that nothing much changed?
dolabriform
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We're planning to cross tomorrow so I'll be chatting to John later today. However looking at that tweet it looks good
Cantata
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I am very surprised.
We thought that spell of weather would be the moment for the Deben entrance to switch back to the north, where a gap has been steadily growing.
Full Trinity House survey around the end of this month, so decision will then be taken on 2018 buoyage positions. Imray chartlet for ECP will follow shortly after.
dolabriform
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Went over today, approx 1 hour 40 minutes before HW. Shallowest point was about 3m