Getting ashore at the head of the Blackwater

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Can anyone advise please if it is possible to land somebody from a tender (in good, dry condition) in the Maldon/Heybridge/Blackwater Marina area at anywhere near low water mean springs ?
Thanks in advance.
 
There's a slipway at the downstream end of the promenade at Maldon, but I don't know if it reaches the water at LWS. You ask a strange question!
 
Many thanks for all replies.Tides are a nuisance aren't they - but I think I'd go crazy (ier) to live somewhere without them.
 
I once collected my daughter at LW springs from Heybridge ......

Closest I could anchor (our boat only drew 1 metre then board up) was just above the North Doubles. I then rowed the dinghy up round the corner into Collier's Reach. Past Hillypool Point I had to get out and push the dinghy until I was approx opposite the first house. Then there was hard ground (notice I didn't say clean and this was 31 years ago) that daughter could track out from the sea wall to me (notice I didn't say it was straight). Once she sat in the dinghy, I couldn't push it until the flood came back a bit. Then I pushed her and dinghy back to Hillypool point from where I could row back to aforesaid boat to find that it was aground. Hey ho.

Course it's possible :p Nobody else tried hard enough :rolleyes:

Now Blackwater Marina. That's simples. Anchor in that 'deep' (ho-ho) pool inside the point at the entrance to Lawling Creek and row until you go aground. Then get over and slide the dinghy over the mud for the next two miles until you reach the pontoons at Blackwater Marina. Mind you that's far from being near anywhere! Getting back will be simple. It will have taken you so long to push the two miles, the tide will be back and you can row back. This plan will also work for Maldon but you could land by My Lord Brythnoth ('Not so easy will you come by the treasure, point and edge shall first make atonement. Whoops that's my head') to save distance. :cool:

D*mn, ignore that, I see you said in good dry condition. Sorry missed it.
 
If you want to take a chance then there is a withy marked channel from the fairway up to a floating (just at 2.5-3 hour before HW) pontoon at the Blackwater Sailing club. Whereupon its up the stairs to the seawall and a 1/4 mile walk to the Basin. Dont blame me if you get told off by the BSC folks though, as it is their facility.
You might need to punt/scull your way into and out of the marked channel depending on tide state. Of course you could find yourself stranded for a couple of embarrassing hours.
 
Anchor as close as you can to the Osea causeway - then row over to pick up passenger who has walked out from the Maldon / Heybridge end.
 
tillergirl said:
I once collected my daughter at LW springs from Heybridge ......

Closest I could anchor (our boat only drew 1 metre then board up) was just above the North Doubles. I then rowed the dinghy up round the corner into Collier's Reach. Past Hillypool Point I had to get out and push the dinghy until I was approx opposite the first house. Then there was hard ground (notice I didn't say clean and this was 31 years ago) that daughter could track out from the sea wall to me (notice I didn't say it was straight). Once she sat in the dinghy, I couldn't push it until the flood came back a bit. Then I pushed her and dinghy back to Hillypool point from where I could row back to aforesaid boat to find that it was aground. Hey ho.

Course it's possible :p Nobody else tried hard enough :rolleyes:

Now Blackwater Marina. That's simples. Anchor in that 'deep' (ho-ho) pool inside the point at the entrance to Lawling Creek and row until you go aground. Then get over and slide the dinghy over the mud for the next two miles until you reach the pontoons at Blackwater Marina. Mind you that's far from being near anywhere! Getting back will be simple. It will have taken you so long to push the two miles, the tide will be back and you can row back. This plan will also work for Maldon but you could land by My Lord Brythnoth ('Not so easy will you come by the treasure, point and edge shall first make atonement. Whoops that's my head') to save distance. :cool:

D*mn, ignore that, I see you said in good dry condition. Sorry missed it.
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Brillliant! ;-)
 
tillergirl said:
I once collected my daughter at LW springs from Heybridge ......

Closest I could anchor (our boat only drew 1 metre then board up) was just above the North Doubles. I then rowed the dinghy up round the corner into Collier's Reach. Past Hillypool Point I had to get out and push the dinghy until I was approx opposite the first house. Then there was hard ground (notice I didn't say clean and this was 31 years ago) that daughter could track out from the sea wall to me (notice I didn't say it was straight). Once she sat in the dinghy, I couldn't push it until the flood came back a bit. Then I pushed her and dinghy back to Hillypool point from where I could row back to aforesaid boat to find that it was aground. Hey ho.

Course it's possible :p Nobody else tried hard enough :rolleyes:

Now Blackwater Marina. That's simples. Anchor in that 'deep' (ho-ho) pool inside the point at the entrance to Lawling Creek and row until you go aground. Then get over and slide the dinghy over the mud for the next two miles until you reach the pontoons at Blackwater Marina. Mind you that's far from being near anywhere! Getting back will be simple. It will have taken you so long to push the two miles, the tide will be back and you can row back. This plan will also work for Maldon but you could land by My Lord Brythnoth ('Not so easy will you come by the treasure, point and edge shall first make atonement. Whoops that's my head') to save distance. :cool:

D*mn, ignore that, I see you said in good dry condition. Sorry missed it.
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Yep, totally agree with Jimi... that was very entertaining!
 
Thanks again for these suggestions in response to my wishful/willful query,especially those who've tried to help with local knowledge and constructive ideas.It seems that it coud be achieved at half tide but not at LW.So we have solved the problem by staying another day in Heybridge basin.
 
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