Harwich High Water

[shanemax]

Very big surges all week at Harwich and its estuaries.
Between 10" -16" at high water. On Tuesday I managed to re-float my boat an hour early having been on the beach for 6 weeks doing maintenance.

 

[fredrussell]

Are you sure? The HHA surge page showing a negative figure at the moment???

 

[Egret]

I can confirm that surge tide levels at Harwich and all along the estuaries can vary quite rapidly - up and down - can easily have a surge of +1m or more (can get to the chip shop by boat) or -0.5m - seems to be +0.5m quite often - +0.3m at Harwich yesterday evening - was +0.5m earlier at noon yesterday - was minus 0.09m at 0630 that morning - Monday evening tide was quite a bit higher on the camera than prediction - makes mockery of another thread yesterday talking about calculating tides at Chichester bar to 50mm. For me it's whether I can get into the yard without wellies or a wet suit.

 

[Lucky Duck]

At least in Chi harbour there is a choice of three tide gauges if cutting it fine.

Sadly the thread from 2013 on this forum where we wondered if various marina piles were going to be overtopped in the early hours of the morning seems to be no longer accessible