East Fort Massac

[shanemax]

This does seem a prime example of causing confusion for visitors. I'm sure most could understand 'Harwich Approach' as the slightly vague location for the site but I am puzzling over the benefit or justification for renaming it East Fort Massac... (or the approach to it...) does it appear on the charts, I don't have mine to hand.

Yes a stupid name. As you say what is wrong with Harwich approach. A name some one from Mars (with a suitable map/chart) could comprehend. Remember Consignia and Royal mail fiasco.

 

[Marmalade]

Assume that "Harwich Approach" is a v wide area given the length of the deep water channel... We have East and West Roughs buoys similarly which refer to their position relative to the danger they guard...

 

[14K478]

I have sailed in and out of Harwich at least once a year (often much more) every year since 1969, and if you had asked me where "East Fort Massac" was, I would not have had a clue, but I could have pointed you to the Cork, the Roughs, the Rolling Grounds, the Pitching Grounds, the Medusa, the Stone Banks and the Beach End without any hesitation!

 

[dogleg]

Corcrest aground on Fort Massac wreck June 49

 

[14K478]

Corcrest aground on Fort Massac wreck June 49

Well done to find this!

 

[LittleSister]

It is the remains of a shipwreck, I believe from wartime, marked by east and west bouys good area for fishing but not for anchoring as bits of the wreck are above the seabed

Good fishing ground

Hence the 'Many fishing buoys in wreck' of the Corcrest noted in the survey of it in 2008!

 

[Braveheart of Maldon]

East Fort Massac is 9Nm from the North West Beach mark on a heading of 285°. If you're following that heading, make sure you avoid the Cork Sand... It gets terribly shallow there.

 

[Braveheart of Maldon]

I have sailed in and out of Harwich at least once a year (often much more) every year since 1969, and if you had asked me where "East Fort Massac" was, I would not have had a clue, but I could have pointed you to the Cork, the Roughs, the Rolling Grounds, the Pitching Grounds, the Medusa, the Stone Banks and the Beach End without any hesitation!

I agree - I would have preferred them to have chosen the Cork Sand Yacht Beacon rather than the East Fort Massac. Whatever, they choose, all I do is place the location into my plotter and make sure I don't hit it when heading up the East Coast!