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I've just had the invoice from Titchmarsh Marina for my tender storage and it's almost half the cost of my mooring so I'm looking at launching from the town hard instead this year. Does anyone know the least depth in the channel from say, W&FYC to the Twizzle.

My opportunities will be restricted to neaps (early morning/evening high waters) for weekend sailing, which presents a problem in itself with the highs being not that high. I'm guessing a couple of hours either side of H/W but hoping for more.

Suggestions please.
 
Not a very technical reply, but as I've sat in the upper dining area several times recently at W&FYC (strongly recommend the food there) at low water looking towards the Walton channel, it doesn't look as though there is enough water to get a dinghy down the creek. At the town hard it would slightly worse.
 
The town hard doesn't get much water at all unfortunately so launching would be limited. It used to be quite good many years ago but they stopped dredging it in favour of coastal protection and the fact the mere is no longer used ( it used to be a boating lake). It's less than an hour either side of an average high tide. Launched kayak off their no problems though. Used to visit it everyday as was the postie for that area for some years. Do the houses & farms around Kirby backwaters now instead, lovely views everyday of 'Secret Water' which is a bonus.
 
Where is your mooring? The foundry reach hard might be a better option. Friend keeps and launches his speedboat off their and storage is very cheap too.
 
You could call at Halls yard and speak to Trevor (Halls). He recently ploughed that ditch (channel) and will be able to give you a definitive answer. You could then post his reply on here for the benefit of others. If you are on one of Halls moorings then you could probably use their slip and get a bit of a start on the flood.
 
Hadenough said:
Where is that then?
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Well it used to be just to the East of Titchmarsh marina. Just looked on Google Earth and it looks pretty derelict.
The Walton lifeboat used to lay there when not on station. in the past I have used the hard and walked in to Walton along the sea wall to Frank Halls, but I don't think you can any more. Just another little bit of access to the water that we have lost.
 
DanTribe said:
Well it used to be just to the East of Titchmarsh marina. Just looked on Google Earth and it looks pretty derelict.
The Walton lifeboat used to lay there when not on station. in the past I have used the hard and walked in to Walton along the sea wall to Frank Halls, but I don't think you can any more. Just another little bit of access to the water that we have lost.
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My father and I kept our boat on a Bedwells mooring just off it in the 70's; very convenient. Indeed you can no longer walk along the sea wall to get there from Bedwells yard as you once could. I asked and was told that this was because of vandalism of boats in the yard by persons unknown thought to come from the adjacent caravan camp (?).

Going back to the original question, Foundry Reach dries to a trickle at LWS; the thing to do is to step out of your dinghy and walk up the bottom of the creek to the club house pushing the dinghy ahead of you - most dinghies will just float.

Like most East Coast creeks that dry to a trickle, the bed of the creek is hard shingle.
 
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