Ore entrance

I wish you'd have taken it a few hours later when we were entering, it seemed to get a lot lumpier in the following few hours, we left shotley with a plan of going in there but knowing we'd be way too early we took a slow run and passed the faiway buoy about low water time to get a depth reading and carried on for a couple of hours, on return there were two raggies also trying to enter but going aground in the entrance and turning(well walking) back out, we kept going by the faiway buoy till a bit of water had built and finaly made it in passing one of the raggies as it walked in again, good fun in a SE'ly wind.
Interesting to see it al full low though.
 
I take it the grounded just after the Weir bouy, there seems to be about 50 to 80 meters of shallow water extending from the shore, there were people standing in the water quite a way out just after I filmed:eek:
 
Interesting (and rather worrying!) to see it at low water. What is the general advice about when to enter? I found the Deben entrance much less intimidating than I expected the first time but I've never done this one and it looks really tricky.
Morgan
 
morgandlm said:
Interesting (and rather worrying!) to see it at low water. What is the general advice about when to enter? I found the Deben entrance much less intimidating than I expected the first time but I've never done this one and it looks really tricky.
Morgan
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On the two times I have been in now I entered and left at just after half tide entering on the flood and leaving on the ebb. We draw 1.5M and had less than a quarter of a meter just after the Weir bouy and a little less a few hundred yards further on where the sea comes in over the spit.It was about mid way between springs and neaps on both occaisions. At the Weir bouy we headed diagonally towards the shore over shallow ground then hugged the shore line perhaps 8 to 10 M off in generally about 3.5 M of water. Talking to the locals and harbour master at Orford they seem pretty relaxed about going aground certainly more than me anyway.:(
 
He He! I have the ground track on my chart plotter of my passes of the fairway buoy checking the depth and it looks like spagetti, I'm assuming the SE'ly winds were holding the tide back as I'd worked out an extra metre of water by LW+0130, no chance!
 
Those pics certainly are interesting. The Ore is on my list for later in the year - a few brave pills needed beforehand methinks, oh and a certain degree of planning ..... possibly.
 
I found the deben entrance to be an easy one, admitedly it was on the flood aiming for HW at woodbridge and we only draw just under a metre, the ore only seemed tricky due to being way too early on the flood, I guess it's a lot easier in a stinkie.
 
CPD said:
Those pics certainly are interesting. The Ore is on my list for later in the year - a few brave pills needed beforehand methinks, oh and a certain degree of planning ..... possibly.
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Says the man who ran aground at Shotley entrance!

I went to both last year, entering both on half tide. When the pilot book says 'stay close to the beach' it means it. I could have shaken hands with people on the beach and still had about 4m!

The bilge keel Fulmar ahead of me ran agound, though.
 
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