nice trip out

[lisilou]

Nothing amazing, just round to Lymington and back. As much for a new season confidence boost as anything else and its doing the trick at least as far as berthing goes. My life Lymingtons a busy old river, not from a moving traffic point of view today at least but the sheer amount of boats moored/berthed up. Not been up there before by boat and not a lot of room for manouveur with boats both sides of you and incoming and outgoing ferries under way!! Which brings me to my question of the day...would travelling behind the ferry cause havoc with my depth gauge?? The reason I ask is as we were exiting the river in the channel behind said ferry, my depth gauge dropped to 0.1m and kept showing very shallow depths. Clearly this was a wrong reading or we'd have been scraping her bum so the only explanation I can come up with is the underwater movement from the ferry. Am I right or is there another logical explanation? Gauge working normally everywhere else.
Hope everyone else had a good day.
Lisa

 

[powerskipper]

ok

Nothing amazing, just round to Lymington and back. As much for a new season confidence boost as anything else and its doing the trick at least as far as berthing goes. My life Lymingtons a busy old river, not from a moving traffic point of view today at least but the sheer amount of boats moored/berthed up. Not been up there before by boat and not a lot of room for manouveur with boats both sides of you and incoming and outgoing ferries under way!! Which brings me to my question of the day...would travelling behind the ferry cause havoc with my depth gauge?? The reason I ask is as we were exiting the river in the channel behind said ferry, my depth gauge dropped to 0.1m and kept showing very shallow depths. Clearly this was a wrong reading or we'd have been scraping her bum so the only explanation I can come up with is the underwater movement from the ferry. Am I right or is there another logical explanation? Gauge working normally everywhere else.
Hope everyone else had a good day.
Lisa

The depth sounder sends a ping down and when it hits something it pings back, if the water is full of air or bubble, as it would be in a ferry wash it can ping back after hitting a bubble, so as long as he is bigger than you and has not run aground and stopped, your fine.

 

[Powersalt]

depth sounder works on sending a signal to the seabed and the time it takes to bounce back give the depth. Aeration from the ferries props would/ could play havoc with the reading I suspect.
Love Lymington though. Stay overnight, great curry house in the high street , bottom end

 

[lisilou]

Thanx Juls...pleased about that.
L

 

[lisilou]

depth sounder works on sending a signal to the seabed and the time it takes to bounce back give the depth. Aeration from the ferries props would/ could play havoc with the reading I suspect.
Love Lymington though. Stay overnight, great curry house in the high street , bottom end

Definitely one for the near future then, thanks.
L

 

[STEVEDUNSTABLE]

hi lisa...... another thing to watch when following a ferry out of lymington, (and this is from PERSONAL EXPERIENCE!!), admitedly it was on a low tide, is the fact that the props off the ferries churnup the bottom really bad, and as we got out to "jack in a basket" marker, having followed one out, the engine temp alam went off !!!!!!!...................a quick look at the intake filter showed it was JAMMED SOLID with weed !!!!!.......the thing is, we had taken the oppotunity to check and clean them at the lymington town quay not 20mins earlyer!!!!....... glad you had a good day out and hopefully see you n chris over easter.... from you no hooo. !!

 

[lisilou]

Good call Steve, thanks for the heads up...makes sense. Call in for a beer anytime you're around...always welcome.
L

 

[U4]

I was stood on the bow of my boat and happened to spot you as you went passed the entrance to Lymington Yacht Haven today..!

Didt have my phone with me when you were closer so only got a shot whilst you were further out!

 

[rbcoomer]

I was stood on the bow of my boat and happened to spot you as you went passed the entrance to Lymington Yacht Haven today..!

Didt have my phone with me when you were closer so only got a shot whilst you were further out!

Darn - too far away to check the Burgee and that infamous Ensign...

 

[lisilou]

Nice spot Aigua. Weird seeing your own boat from a different view. Thanks .
Rb...I relented and bought a bigger, sewn jobby this morning after Chris (my H) said the printed small one was pathetic!!
L

 

[rbcoomer]

Nice spot Aigua. Weird seeing your own boat from a different view. Thanks .
Rb...I relented and bought a bigger, sewn jobby this morning after Chris (my H) said the printed small one was pathetic!!
L

Funny how boat's have a way of making us cough up a bit more dough than we think is reasonable isn't it? I somehow knew you would as I'd almost certainly have made the same 'economy' - and then needed to rectify decision too...

 

[kcrane]

Nothing amazing, just round to Lymington and back. As much for a new season confidence boost as anything else and its doing the trick at least as far as berthing goes. Which brings me to my question of the day...would travelling behind the ferry cause havoc with my depth gauge??

Glad you liked Lymington - we were there too, in Berthon. What a lovely couple of days, beautiful weather. We ate at Graze, which is at the top of the cobbled section, turn right, 25metres. Tapas but with bistro dishes rather than Spanish, Well worth a visit.

I can remember when we were training the instructor told us that the prop wash from big boats can send the sounder haywire for a while, so that does sound a likely explanation.