Champagne Murphy
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Old subject but I've never done it before. From Whittaker to the top of Foulgers where's the best place to cross the sunk?
Cheers
Karl
Cheers
Karl
crossing the sunk
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MoodySabre
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tillergirl
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Karl
Roger's (MoodySabre) post is correct. Go to that page on my site and you can download chartlets for the crossing adjacent to the Barrow No 2 which brings you out to the Black Deep just a bit to the east of Foulger's. But I would recommend from the Whittaker, go round the NE corner of the East Barrow Sands (there is a shallow little finger that extends NE from the sands), but then drop down the side of the Barrow Sands to the SW Sunk swatchway - see the second download on the page that Roger has quoted. The two waypoints shown are fine; really deep on the Barrow Deep side shallowing off as you get to the Black Deep side of the sands but still with 3m LAT and it is perfect for dropping down into Fisherman's Gat. Don't worry about the 'keep out of Fisherman's Gat' that is sometimes said. There is ample room beside the buoyed channel (which is buoyed for ships to denote the 8.3m LAT channel). This give you the most direct route to the North Foreland. Don't worry if you are going through the SW Sunk Swatch at low water and see the drying bank to the SW/W,
there is ample water in the swatch. There was 12ft 10ins water at the shallowest point when the bank (Mystique's Knoll) to the SW/W was like this (Bit of a zoom lens applied there, so the track is not as close to the knoll as this looks - it's nice and easy this year):
[URL=http://s217.photobucket.com/user/rgaspar_album/media/P1050295.jpg.html]
Have a good trip
Roger
Roger's (MoodySabre) post is correct. Go to that page on my site and you can download chartlets for the crossing adjacent to the Barrow No 2 which brings you out to the Black Deep just a bit to the east of Foulger's. But I would recommend from the Whittaker, go round the NE corner of the East Barrow Sands (there is a shallow little finger that extends NE from the sands), but then drop down the side of the Barrow Sands to the SW Sunk swatchway - see the second download on the page that Roger has quoted. The two waypoints shown are fine; really deep on the Barrow Deep side shallowing off as you get to the Black Deep side of the sands but still with 3m LAT and it is perfect for dropping down into Fisherman's Gat. Don't worry about the 'keep out of Fisherman's Gat' that is sometimes said. There is ample room beside the buoyed channel (which is buoyed for ships to denote the 8.3m LAT channel). This give you the most direct route to the North Foreland. Don't worry if you are going through the SW Sunk Swatch at low water and see the drying bank to the SW/W,
there is ample water in the swatch. There was 12ft 10ins water at the shallowest point when the bank (Mystique's Knoll) to the SW/W was like this (Bit of a zoom lens applied there, so the track is not as close to the knoll as this looks - it's nice and easy this year):
[URL=http://s217.photobucket.com/user/rgaspar_album/media/P1050295.jpg.html]
Have a good trip
Roger
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Tomahawk
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Looking at those photos,…
I have always thought the name "Sunk" is worryingly appropriate. .. as in I tried to cross the Sunk and did.
I have always thought the name "Sunk" is worryingly appropriate. .. as in I tried to cross the Sunk and did.
Daydream believer
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Whitaker to barrow No3 then 136 degrees across sands . Loads of water even at low tide
cueball
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+1, used this exact route a few times, I draw 2mtrs no problems even at L/W
