Fleetwood local knowledge- Wyre over low tide

[NickRobinson]

Hi All
I've been based at Fwood now since last year and I will be looking to visit Glasson at some time this year.

Passage planning seems to shows it's too tight to go out at the earliest from Fwood and be at Glasson in time to lock in on one HW (about 12m in < 2 hours at c. 5kts doesn't work- though I've assumed no current)?

So do you moor/dry in the Wyre and go early on the next tide? Any moorings available? What's anchoring like? Any preferred place?

Of course I'll chat with Marina staff/other owners but this is an armchair inquiry.

Seems a bit of a trip to wait over at Barrow and come back..

Nick
Rivendell

 

[ffiill]

This is old knowledge but there were several moorings at mouth of River Wyre just opposite the fish dock gates you could hang out on and the River is deep enough here to run out to sea even at low tide unless things have badly silted in past fifteen years.Many years ago I have waited there both to go up the Wyre to my mud berth at Skipool or to go through into the Fish dock marina.
Also as I recall the Lune is quite deep even at low tide and certainly The Lune Deep at the mouth of the Lune is deep enough for ships heading up to Heysham to moor up in whilst waiting for the tide.Again I have overnighted there before heading up to Glasson.
Bear in mind on a rising tide the worst that can happen is that you catch the mud bottom briefly.

 

[JimC]

If there's an early lock-out from Fleetwood you should be able to make it into Glasson Dock, which opens an hour before HW and normally closes at HW but will often stay open later to oblige yachtsmen if you call the dock on channel 69. If you miss the dock there are moorings in the river under the control of Glasson Sailing Club who may have one free (call 01524 751089) be aware that these dry and are in a strong current, you will need a reliable outboard on your tender. You could alternatively anchor at Sundrland Point, which is nearer the mouth of the Lune and go up to the dock on the next tide. From the dock you can lock-up into the marina via a lock operated by British Waterways. There's more information on navigating the Lune on the Glasson Sailing Club website at http://www.glassonsailing.co.uk/. The club welcomes visitors. Pay particular attention to the advice given on the website not to proceed past the Lune No1 buoy earlier than 2 hours before HW, amongst other dangers there are training walls against which you coulg get pinned by the incoming tide. There is often a small bore.

 

[NickRobinson]

Hi Jim/ffiill

Thanks for that- I remember Timothy Spall anchored off the Lune in calm weather in that barge.
I've spoken to GYC and they do not have formal visitor moorings but offer alongside their jetty if vacant.
I guess a vacant mooring might be available by neg.
I thought it would Ok to hang about on a mooring in the Wyre until the appropriate time for a leisurely departure.
This would also allow me to see if I can get from lock to lock in one tide infuture.
Sunderland Point I hadn't considered.
Thanks-
Nick

 

[Richard10002]

I used to sail on a Nic 31 that flitted between Fleetwood and Glasson, for winter and Summer. Always managed to leave Fleetwood and get into Glasson on one high tide, and definitely didn't have much more than 5knots in the engine, if that. Don't forget the tide runs strongly with you.

I was never in charge of such a trip, so just went with the flow - but did it several times. Ask around the marina, there will be those who have done it all their lives.