Deben and Ore entrances

[Cantata]

Trinity House surveys of the two entrances have been done, Imrays have the survey data and we should be able to publish downloadable chartlets very soon. If you're on our mailing list, then we'll let you know when they are available.

 

[Otter]

Thanks. Is there a date for the Ore buoys do you know?

 

[Cantata]

I'm told the buoys should be in by Easter.

 

[forelle541]

Deben buoys should be moved this week, I came in today and draw 1.5mand never had less than 1m under the keel with a tidal height given of 2.5m just following the buoys as they are.

 

[backwaters]

Thanks for the update. We are looking forward to spending the April bank holiday weekend in Woodbridge!

 

[Hadenough]

Any news on the Deben bar yet?

 

[Cantata]

Hope to have chartlets up by Tuesday evening. Once Imrays have produced them, they need Trinity House approval before we can make them available.
Buoys are in new positions now, apart from the offing buoy which will apparently be moved after Easter.
The news is that there is very little water indeed at LWS, a matter of inches.
I understand it was a toss-up between keeping the buoyed channel to the south (which Trinity House have preferred) or instead marking the new channel which is opening up further north. Entirely possible, I imagine, that at some stage this year the buoyage will have to be switched to the new channel.

 

[Hadenough]

Many thanks.

 

[Mandarin331]

The 'deben estuary' chart is now updated by HM John White on that website showing least depth of 0.2m. We came in this morning at half tide after calling him and his prediction was spot on with least actual depth of 2m. The channel seems very narrow with depth dropping quickly if you stray.

 

[LittleSister]

The news is that there is very little water indeed at LWS, a matter of inches.

The 'deben estuary' chart is now updated by HM John White on that website showing least depth of 0.2m. . . . The channel seems very narrow with depth dropping quickly if you stray.

That'll keep the rabble out!

Or in!

 

[Mandarin331]

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Changed a bit since the current Navionics chart...this was our course out at 1300 today

 

[Cantata]

The new Imray-drawn entrance chartlets are now available on the ECP website. Enjoy!

 

[PeterWright]

Thank you Dick, great service, as always.

A few inches at LAT makes plenty of water at half tide or more, so it won't keep us out just yet.

Peter.

 

[Cantata]

As always the entrance is perfectly reasonable so long as you don't take liberties.
These include not watching your transit and so allowing the cross-current to sweep you off track (this is the favourite that keeps John White busy with a tow-line), arriving/departing with not enough height of tide, and trying it in a strong onshore blow. Or even combinations of these!:encouragement:

 

[sailorman]

As always the entrance is perfectly reasonable so long as you don't take liberties.
These include not watching your transit and so allowing the cross-current to sweep you off track (this is the favourite that keeps John White busy with a tow-line), arriving/departing with not enough height of tide, and trying it in a strong onshore blow. Or even combinations of these!:encouragement:

perhaps we need "Meets" to avoid the x track drift

 

[Cantata]

perhaps we need "Meets" to avoid the x track drift

You often reminisce about this but the fact is the place has been a Meet-free environment for some years now, almost vegan in fact.

 

[Capt Popeye]

Humm well according to the recent chart the Northern route is of no more then ?

Might almost be able for crew to jump ashore to join the Golf Club and get a round in if the ebb is against one ? {

 

[sailorman]

You often reminisce about this but the fact is the place has been a Meet-free environment for some years now, almost vegan in fact.

i go back to 73, Salad days

 

[Mandarin331]

The problem with meets is that they would have to be in the middle of the channel, in those good old days when men were real men and meets were used the entrance led towards the beach

 

[Otter]

i go back to 73, Salad days

It was a momentous year, without '73 there'd be no Cetshwayo ascending to the Zulu throne and therefore in time no "Zulu" the movie. I love that film. To have seen those years first hand must have been a real treat.