Chichester

[BarryH]

Never been there before, come to that not really ventured east of southampton water. Well for my sins I'm meeting an aquaintance there. I've heard horror stories about the bar if you catch the tide wrong. So whats it like the pilot books dont really tell you to much just time your arrival carefuly. Is it as bad as all that, what should i look out for.

Any info most welcome

Regards BarryH

 

[lanason]

Its a nice town with a really old "Town Wall" that is visible in many places... Two of our friends went to Teacher training college there and got married ..... so watch out for love in the air !!!!
I guess thats not much help really is it ???


Adrian )

 

[BarryH]

Blimey!! That is'nt marked on the chart.

 

[tcm]

Dunno if this has a bad name cos of al the solety newbies. Not at all bad imho. Find the fairway buoy, and aim north for where there's no beach - west of the west winner, gps if you must. Straightforward and from now there'll be lots of boats in and out...but be careful not to follow their mad routes, go to/from the fairway buoy.

 

[ParaHandy]

One of those places where you go through it and wonder what all the fuss is about. Avoid strong southerly type winds and ebb tide (when it gets lumpy and v. nasty) otherwise is v. pleasant. Bar does shift a bit so keep within (decent) stones throw to East of bar buoy. Keep to South of Winner SCM just to West of entrance, innocuous looking place but quite shallow and on route from Soton.

Oh, watch sailing clubs on West bank as you go in - they're dreadfully keen and know col regs + rules & regs backwards. Sometimes set their racing course right at the entrance which has always struck me as being a bit dumb. Ship Inn at Ichenor is well worth a visit, Chichester a bit naff imho.

 

[BarryH]

Re: Ship Inn

Journies end and i suspect a welcome pint after trip in/down/along (don't know which) from Poole. Tides will be against me when i get to chichester as i want to time them right going past the Needles into the solent. So they are bound to be wrong for Chichster. Any good moorings at Itchenor or is it all a bit crowded.

Regards BarryH

 

[andyball]

Re: Itchenor moorings

crowded? at this time of year?

Also I think tcm's description is of Langstone, not Chichester entrance.

 

[ParaHandy]

Re: Ship Inn

Re Moorings: swinging jobs in centre of river, very comfy for overnight stay. Never been any shortage of room. Might be as well to give Conservancy a ring or web site www.conservancy.co.uk which has lots of useful info about bar (at entrance!) and moorings.

 

[andyball]

Re: chichester

http://www.conservancy.co.uk/Content/HbrNavigation.htm takes you to a full description of the entrance, the site's a little out of date though....the official line is to allow for only 0.75m least depth.

The latest conservancy guide suggests a bearing of 11 degrees true, from a waypoint of 50.45.35N 00.56.48W., and shows a survey done in Nov.2001 to back it up

The guide is free, and more up to date than the website....their tel no. is 01243 512301


& tcm....sorry :I read your post quickly,and thought you meant the (langstone) fairway buoy, and the west winner bank...rather than the Chichester Bar and west winner "beacons"
I must read more carefully




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[Will_M]

If you want to know what the Chi Bar is doing, have a look at www.chimet.co.uk this is a mini weather station type thing located on the old Chi Bar Beacon, the new Chi Beacon (for navigation) is a pole further out.

Ta, Will.

 

[hlb]

Re: Ship Inn

Barry if your coming from Pool, is it not easier to take the inner passage to the Solent. I'm no expert on that area, but I always find it much easier and not as rough. Depends on the wind of course.

Haydn

 

[Viking]

Just common sense most of it.
If the boat you have is the one in the picture you should have no problems
There are usually lots of boats coming and going, so just join the line in. Have a local chart handy and be careful to check off the buoys around the sand bars so you become aware of whats were on your first trip. The buoys are also lit at night. Dont try any short cuts because there arnt any! (for keel boats)

Anchor at East Head youll see other boats there in the summer - go ashore, swim, panick. Good if youve got kids!

 

[BarryH]

Re: Ship Inn

Well i suppose it is but always gone up past the neddles as the wife normally helms from poole fairway boy to to the wight straight line keep compass on same bearing etc. Tell her to follow waypoints/routes on gps and it confuses her, poor soul. Needles channel is'nt that bad as long as you time it right and dont play silly buggers with it, even the inshore northern route can kick up if you time it wrong, all depends on the conditions on the day really.

 

[byron]

aaah! the ship inn

Back in the late 60s early 70s when the Ship Inn was run by Yeti and her old man Donald, the Ship was great. One of us would book a room and two dozen of us would be in the bar as his guest until the wee small hours and the weekend was one long party. Oh happy days.

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