Chichester Bar - Don't Cut The Corner!

[Sans Bateau]

Agree with all that has been said about EYH. It is a lovely place to keep a boat, if your draft is shallow enough to allow reasonable access. When we kept ( the previous 2) boats there we would after arriving on a Friday evening leave as soon as we could, usually around midnight plus! We would make our way down the Emsworth channel and pick up a vacant buoy for the rest of the night, this would give us a good head start on the Sat morning, to save having to wait 'till around midday when the sill would cover sufficiently once more.

 

[Seajet]

Galadriel,

This sounds like Spring tides if the HW was around midday - midnight.

Getting in and out of the place is another example of why a lift keeler - of any size - is handy.

Some people think lift keels are for exploring shallow waters, but they're certainly not, going aground with the keel up is as unpleasant on even a slightly lee shore as with a fin keeler, just a few feet closer in !

The main use of lift keels is for access and use of shallow half tide moorings & berths.

 

[tt65]

Those pictures

The pictures posted by the OP look somewhat similar to stuff I have seen following the passage of one of those very fast catamaran type cross channel ferries. They can create really dangerous breaking waves on shoaling water seemingly miles from their route and a long time after they have passed.

Just a thought.

 

[Tidewaiter2]

Ah Ha

The pictures posted by the OP look somewhat similar to stuff I have seen following the passage of one of those very fast catamaran type cross channel ferries. They can create really dangerous breaking waves on shoaling water seemingly miles from their route and a long time after they have passed.

Just a thought.

Good thought-The Brittany Ferry fast cats come via the Nab, or cut the corner round Bembridge- they only throttle down just off the Forts. Come to that, the Brittany & Condor RoRos only slow about then too.
Now the Widow making "Pride of B" is being w/drwn, it'll be down to them- the fun is usually just N of the10m contour line, down to 4m.

 

[Ubergeekian]

The pictures posted by the OP look somewhat similar to stuff I have seen following the passage of one of those very fast catamaran type cross channel ferries. They can create really dangerous breaking waves on shoaling water seemingly miles from their route and a long time after they have passed.

That seems to have been a likely cause for a couple of drownings in Loch Ryan as well.

 

[Sans Bateau]

The pictures posted by the OP look somewhat similar to stuff I have seen following the passage of one of those very fast catamaran type cross channel ferries. They can create really dangerous breaking waves on shoaling water seemingly miles from their route and a long time after they have passed.

Just a thought.

Whilst I would not dismiss this theory completely, I'm not entirely convinced. Crossing Hayling Bay, in a fresh S or SW breeze there is always a consistent swell from the south as the sea shallows, increasing as it approaches the beach. Just before West pole the swell can be fairly large even in benign conditions. That said, if the swell was joined by the wake of any ship entering or leaving the Solent, I suspect that swell would be considerably increased for a while.

 

[Moonshining]

Anybody fancy crossing the bar today?

http://www.chimet.co.uk/(S(cpyd1w55eciwuty4bhk3vrqo))/default.aspx

 

[Sans Bateau]

This demonstrates perfectly in graphic format what happens at the bar in a Southerly gale. As the tide floods, the wave hight is around .5 metre, perfectly safe. But during the ebb it was near 2 metres! And that is not a spring tide!

http://www.chimet.co.uk/(S(nqji54mjteoc2h55a3emy521))/sea.aspx

Look now as this is a real time link!

 

[Tidewaiter2]

Definitely Quality Time Time in the Sussex or Raglan

This demonstrates perfectly in graphic format what happens at the bar in a Southerly gale. As the tide floods, the wave hight is around .5 metre, perfectly safe. But during the ebb it was near 2 metres! And that is not a spring tide!

http://www.chimet.co.uk/(S(nqji54mjteoc2h55a3emy521))/sea.aspx

Look now as this is a real time link!

Yep, no fun, we had a real washing machine job in Tringa once, through waiting 30-40 mins for a line squall to pass before leaving EYH- we got just as wet as if we'd left in the rain!
It does not pay to be late at Chi Bar!