Nore Swatchway

[phatcat1]

Hi all,

Does anyone know the depths over the Nore Swatch at the moment?

We are heading up the Thames from Queenborough next week and usually hit it about LW.

Nick

Rumpus.

 

[ex-Gladys]

Went both ways over it in September, and there's plenty for us drawing 1.5m... Can't think much changes there?

 

[BelleSerene]

Went both ways over it in September, and there's plenty for us drawing 1.5m... Can't think much changes there?

'Fraid it does. I sailed over it the other way six weeks ago. There was a minimum of 2-2.5m over CD well inland of Nore Swatch (R) and Grain Edge (G) buoys - but it's shallower than appears on the latest charts.

Worth a look at the Navionics Web App, switched to show 'SonarChart' bathymetry, their overlay of crowd-sourced depths. You'll see how the 'Flats' sands off the Isle of Grain have bled seaward in the direction of the wreck.

 

[Cantata]

I went that way twice in the last week, both times at LW (on passage between the Swale and St.Kats) and I noticed as we skirted the shallows that we were further east than seen in recent years. But I never go from one buoy to the other anyway, I always cut the corner as much as I can. I draw a bit less, though, 1.2m.