Has the Dredging started in Tollesbury yet

[Ianqv]

Dear All,

Has the dredging started / finished in Tollesbury yet?
Rumour has it that they had bought a dredger and were threatening to actually use it!

Many thanks

ian

 

[peterf]

Hi Ian

My boat is at tollesbury and whilst I am currently polishing/anti fouling her on the hard I have seen the marina team using their new dredger even at the weekends when I am down there..

I'm not sure dredging is ever "finished" but from what I can see they now have an active process in place..

BR
Peter

 

[mersea_paddler]

Which bit are they dredgering? The whole of the creek or just bits?

 

[Plum]

Which bit are they dredgering? The whole of the creek or just bits?

Just the Marina. There is no point in dredging the creek to access the marina.

www.solocoastalsailing.co.uk

 

[johnalison]

Just the Marina. There is no point in dredging the creek to access the marina.

www.solocoastalsailing.co.uk

I don't know. Straightening it all out would make life a lot easier.

 

[mersea_paddler]

Fair point, well made

 

[Cantata]

I don't know. Straightening it all out would make life a lot easier.

Aww, c'mon, don't you like a challenge?

 

[PeterWright]

I don't know. Straightening it all out would make life a lot easier.

But less fun!

Peter.

 

[johnalison]

Aww, c'mon, don't you like a challenge?

As I have recounted before, we once attempted as a club to leave in the dark at about 5am for a cricket match on the Buxey sands. The sight of half a dozen boats bumbling around and blinding each other with torches in the blackness of night on a falling tide is scarred on my memory. However, I wouldn’t want to deprive others of the fun and hereby withdraw my suggestion.

 

[Malish]

surely the inherent accuracy of chart plotters has resolved this matter

 

[PeterWright]

surely the inherent inaccuracy of chart plotters has resolved this matter

Fixed that for you!

P.

 

[johnalison]

My plotter is not very good at showing swinging moorings.

 

[Leighb]

We have been in and out of Tollesbury lots of times and, so far, failed to go aground. Always in daylight and a rising tide. It is much better marked now but quite tortuous and I wouldn’t trust a chart plotter to find the channel, except, possibly when leaving, to follow the exact track on the way in?

 

[Malish]

I feel that we are having a little chuckle about the perceived benefit of a box of electronics over the mark 1 eyeball and depth gauge