Exe Estuary silted up

[Fimacca]

Just a warning to check your depths. Blew up and down the exe yesterday and the depths look pretty low compared to last year. Even on neaps. Saw a deep finned yacht stranded high on the sandbank nr cockwood. Wonder if the charts have caught up. It has been re bouyed recently but beware ! Don't cut corners from bouy to bouy to save a minute or two.....you may spend the night there !
Does not stop the ribs blasting around at 15knts tho

 

[gerryraby1]

Hmm, went to Exmouth in 2009 with the club.
First of all we couldnt find the safe water mark because the entrance channel had moved by a mile from the position given in the almanac.
Then we came into the harbour on a rising tide, 1 hr before HW. We were quite unprepared for the tidal flow! Wow, that was a surprise!
In the end we ended up on a buoy for the night and left the next morning.
This post does not encourage me back!
Sorry Exmouth :-(

Gerry www.sadler32forsale.com

 

[KAL]

Hmm, went to Exmouth in 2009 with the club.
First of all we couldnt find the safe water mark because the entrance channel had moved by a mile from the position given in the almanac.
Then we came into the harbour on a rising tide, 1 hr before HW. We were quite unprepared for the tidal flow! Wow, that was a surprise!
In the end we ended up on a buoy for the night and left the next morning.
This post does not encourage me back!
Sorry Exmouth :-(

Gerry www.sadler32forsale.com

Definitely 'go with the flow' if you visit Exmouth. If you stick to the channel and go with the tide you'll be fine. No-one breaks the speed limit there; it's just that when you are pushing the 25 knot tidal flow, doing 8, it looks as if you're doing 23kn, that's all!

 

[longjohnsilver]

Hmm, went to Exmouth in 2009 with the club.
First of all we couldnt find the safe water mark because the entrance channel had moved by a mile from the position given in the almanac.
Then we came into the harbour on a rising tide, 1 hr before HW. We were quite unprepared for the tidal flow! Wow, that was a surprise!
In the end we ended up on a buoy for the night and left the next morning.
This post does not encourage me back!
Sorry Exmouth :-(



Gerry www.sadler32forsale.com

If you'd updated your charts you'd have seen the change. And also seen the tidal flow off the docks entrance from your chart. But I'm equally as guilty of not updating charts I was on the river yesterday, it's certainly worth spending a day or two of exploration, Topsham and the Turf Locks are great places to spend some time.

 

[theoldsalt]

No-one breaks the speed limit there;

You really must be kidding. Practically every boat capable of exceeding the speed limit (10 knots) does so. There is a designated water skiing area but there are still idiots using the main channel. I've even seen them doing it in the dark without nav. lights

Sorry for the drift and rant.

Back to the OP subject. I keep my boat on the Exe but have yet to venture out to check the current depths so the information is interesting.

 

[Seagreen]

Being a long term habitue of the River, it is constantly changing. Not personally sure about whether I like the new channel route over Pole sand, as approaching in anything with a southerly wind can bring a bit of a swell, which isn't helpful.
But I suppose that it really depends on both your draft and your adventurousness. A deepish keel will restrict you in access to Topsham and Turf, as everywhere else in the world. But, there is a new floating River Cafe in the channel off Starcross, and there are plenty of spare moorings available. Daily water taxi to the docks. Ferries up and down the river. True, there is little or no ready marina access in Exmouth, being mainly full of local mobos and ribs, but if you like ditchcrawling, and walking on sandbanks with a backdrop of rolling Devon hills, pay the river a visit. Its a lot more relaxed than Dartmouth, for one thing.

 

[Boo2]

Definitely 'go with the flow' if you visit Exmouth. If you stick to the channel and go with the tide you'll be fine. No-one breaks the speed limit there; it's just that when you are pushing the 25 knot tidal flow, doing 8, it looks as if you're doing 23kn, that's all!

25kt tidal flow ? Really ?

Boo2

 

[SimonFa]

We were thinking of using it as a jump off point before coming back round Portland Bill in early June. However following advice and now reading this it sounds more like a Yachtmaster exam location than a holiday stop over, perhaps we'll give it a miss this year while we're getting used to the new boat.

 

[macd]

25kt tidal flow ? Really ?

Must be all the haematite washed into the river. Makes it very irony.

 

[[70521]]

It's a river, a rather nice river, and they always change.

 

[KAL]

Must be all the haematite washed into the river. Makes it very irony.

Ah, at last! A man after my own heart. I was beginning to despair...