capt_courageous
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Went out for a sail yesterday - leaving Ballast to port of course. It seems to have been hit again. Perhaps QHM should consider putting Cardinal Marks round it as a hazard to navigation.
Ballast Again
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landaftaf
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was it grey paint ?
Evadne
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We were in Portsmouth harbour last weekend for the first time since the new poles went up and there were two observations:
1) you have to get pretty close to the posts to read the instructions.
2) it is unnatural to leave a red can on a pole to port when leaving the harbour. Ballast I can understand, although it was universally passed east of when we were there, but near low water the inner swashway marker looks far too close to the shore to consider going inside it, which is how I read the instructions written on the pole, and in the notices to mariners.
1) you have to get pretty close to the posts to read the instructions.
2) it is unnatural to leave a red can on a pole to port when leaving the harbour. Ballast I can understand, although it was universally passed east of when we were there, but near low water the inner swashway marker looks far too close to the shore to consider going inside it, which is how I read the instructions written on the pole, and in the notices to mariners.
capt_courageous
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Dave
We agree with all your points. If you want to add spice to your day try leaving via the inner swashway on a full ebb. I dont know how they get poles to move so fast.
We agree with all your points. If you want to add spice to your day try leaving via the inner swashway on a full ebb. I dont know how they get poles to move so fast.
Evadne
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Fast moving poles
I'll bear that in mind, we often end up trying to plug the tide into Portsmouth, coming from Chichester at or about HW, which takes upwards of half an hour with our little engine. I can well imagine us being sluiced out sideways in the other direction!
I'll bear that in mind, we often end up trying to plug the tide into Portsmouth, coming from Chichester at or about HW, which takes upwards of half an hour with our little engine. I can well imagine us being sluiced out sideways in the other direction!
rwoofer
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I didn't realise you had to leave the inner swashway pole to port on leaving. I've been leaving it to starboard without any problem, cause I haven't bothered to read the sign. In actual fact the pole is bang smack in the middle of where I would have normally entered the swashway, so the first time I saw it I had a bit of eeny meeny miney mo to decide which way to go.
I have a 2.01m draft.
I have a 2.01m draft.
alahol2
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As I understand it you only leave the inner swashway pole to port if you are using the inner swashway, otherwise you remain in the small boat channel.
