Havengore Creek

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A quick question – has anybody recently used the Havengore Creek routing?

(For info, it’s a shortcut from the Thames Estuary (Maplin Sands) to the River Crouch. It is (in theory at least!) usable close to Spring Tides, and it seems to be a very useful shortcut when routing from the Thames to Burnham).

I’ve got loads of chart and tide data, even got a video someone made, but I just wondered if anybody here has any actual recent experience I could scrounge!
 
If you do a search for "Havengore" there are quite a few posts! I did it couple of years ago 1m draft (Mobo) on a spring & had no probs but I was following 1/2 a dozen yachts which made it easy :D
 
I did it about 3 years ago on somebody else's boat, but the best place to ask is the YBW East Coast Forum as several on there have done it.
We had come from the Blackwater, to the Crouch via the Raysand channel, and were 30mins after HW going through the bridge, so it was a bit fraught going out. The bridgekeeper (lady) radio gave good directions as we were progressing out.
 
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Another thought; coming from the Thames, how will this be useful to you unless you've punched the tide to get there at HW? If you do in one hit from Teddington - assuming 6.5 knots or so - go out as the sluices lift at Richmond, punch incoming tide to about Hammersmith (then have the bridge clearance at Hammersmith to worry about), ebb tide to about Holehaven/Medway entrance, and continue on against the incoming tide, then Havengore might be useful. If you (more normally) sit out tides at Erith/Queenborough, then take the ebb down to the entrance of the Crouch, you won't be able to go across the sands into Havengore.

It is quite difficult to see from the outside, much easier to come from the creeks going out.
 
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