East Coast to Versemeer

Plenty of choice from the Admiralty leisure charts for the Belgian coast to Flushing but nothing to worry about and Reeds has a good passage plan for it. Some will howl with protest but the plotter was all we used, the chart stayed folded up as it's a bit difficult to ge that bit of the journey wrong!

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I'll go along with Pasta Simon on that. Just a "pootle" (love that word!) along the coast aiming to pass Zeebrugge entrance, which sticks out considerably. From then on just follow the coastline, keeping inshore of the bouyed commercial Channel which is quite busy. I'll leave it to your discretion as to when to nip over to the Vlissingen side. I cross as soon as I see a good gap in the traffic, but I think the charts show a prefferred course for leisure sailors.
Some folk swear by going into Breskens first and crossing next day but I have never seen the point in going in to Breskens rather than Vlissingen, just plan your passage with particular reference to the tidal charts for the Schelde, it is a really nice passge.
Peegee
 
Peegee said:
I'll go along with Pasta Simon on that. Just a "pootle" (love that word!) along the coast aiming to pass Zeebrugge entrance, which sticks out considerably. From then on just follow the coastline, keeping inshore of the bouyed commercial Channel which is quite busy. I'll leave it to your discretion as to when to nip over to the Vlissingen side. I cross as soon as I see a good gap in the traffic, but I think the charts show a prefferred course for leisure sailors.
Some folk swear by going into Breskens first and crossing next day but I have never seen the point in going in to Breskens rather than Vlissingen, just plan your passage with particular reference to the tidal charts for the Schelde, it is a really nice passge.
Peegee
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we stopped over last year in the Vlissengen Club just before the Sloe Brug. very pleasant good food,showers & atmos.if you dont plan going far its worth a stop
 
sailorman said:
Non discript town,good marina good swindlery good food in club with superb views accross the Schede
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Sailorman has it right, the town is nothing special IMHO but if the place is a convenient stop for you, then the club in the marina is a cracking place to spend the evening.
 
Great food at the club house which has a strange reputation as being only suitable for hooray henry's, whatever they are. Nice chandlery with a very capable mechanic who charged us E50 for servicing our o/b. Boring town.
 
pasta_simon said:
To get to versemeer you don't need 1800 series charts or pilot book. Reeds will sort out the entrance to Flushing and then you turn right into the canal and keep going until you enter the versemeer.

I like Niuewport from Ramsgate because at 50 miles it's a nice day sail. Zeebrug is a horrible commercial port to transit and I don't like Oostende (which is also 50% more expensive). Also garlic Langoustine followed by KYCN steak at the KYCN club house is flipin gorgeous. The chandlers have a 70% off clothing sale in the sumer! :):):)

And no apologies needed for hijacking the thread, we are all very nice people on the ECF :p
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You may not need them but they are very good and show a lot of detail especially the shallow bits, someone asked about the gravelingermeer, there is a very interesting island just before you get to Brauershaven (forgive my dutch spellings) which has a shallow harbour in it where loads of people go or you can moor up on a pontoon just up from there, shallow little lagoons for the kids to play in, oysters you can just pick up and a herd of wild horses tearing about, its great, there is a similar tiny island sitting almost in the middle of the gravlingermeer (forget its name) we anchored off and did not try to get in but great fun.

Personally for the veersmeer i go straight across Harwich - Vlissingen or to the Roompot for the gravelingermeer but I have to watch the air draft on that one, so tides are important or you have to wait.
 
AndyAndKatie said:
Where woould be the best place to buy the 1800 serie Charts from, can they be bought in advance over here or would I have to wait till I got over there??.. bearing in mind, I'd like them to get over there in the first place, lol.

Ive just tried looking for them in some of the online chandlers, but to no avale..
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Imrays of St Ives stock them all, give them a ring, Foxes at Ipswich always have them in there new shop.
 
Go the rest of the way down to Terneuzen and stop in the small marina. Nice facilities, little town with lots of cafes and places to eat. The supermarket is miles from the marina - unless you can find the Turkish SM, near the mosque.
 
best route to Ramsgate?

assuming we go from the Deben to Ramsgate, would you:

a. Leave everything to starboard?
b. Go to Trinity, then long sand and then run down knock deep?
c. Go down black dep and then nip through fisherman's gat?

Bearing in mind it's a flood tide, "C" seems the quickest as it's with the tide, but I don't like the look of fisherman's gat on the chart.
 
pasta_simon said:
assuming we go from the Deben to Ramsgate, would you:

a. Leave everything to starboard?
b. Go to Trinity, then long sand and then run down knock deep?
c. Go down black dep and then nip through fisherman's gat?

Bearing in mind it's a flood tide, "C" seems the quickest as it's with the tide, but I don't like the look of fisherman's gat on the chart.
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a/ have done many times
c/ is the shortest & now the favoured if conditions are right
 
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