Osea Island - causeway débris

CG Weather for Gib Point to N Foreland Ch23 was followed at weekend by a warning to mariners to avoid the causeway !? Does that answer your question, I guess it may depend on your draft and how lucky you feel :-)

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sarabande said:
after the débris issues a couple of months ago, has there been any progress please ?
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I did not see the previous post, but I was up near the Osea causeway at the end of last week and it seemed to me that the debris were just at the land end and not in an area one would normally sail in, unless going ashore there. There may be/have been, more debris in the middle, but the new weedless stuff seemed to be all at the end - Why go round the back anyway?
 
DavidofMersea said:
Why go round the back anyway?
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Because it's quiet and quaint and most importantly.... Because you can. It's a recognised navigable stretch of water and people mustn't be allowed to willy nilly change that..

I feel very strongly against people/companies etc circumventing the law at the detriment of others freedom.
 
Fire99 said:
Because it's quiet and quaint and most importantly.... Because you can. It's a recognised navigable stretch of water and people mustn't be allowed to willy nilly change that..

I feel very strongly against people/companies etc circumventing the law at the detriment of others freedom.
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Although I posed the question, I am in agreement with. When I posed that question I was thinking more of someone passage making to Maldon. We often sail from Heybridge around Osea and Northey Islands
 
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Fire99 said:
Because it's quiet and quaint and most importantly.... Because you can. It's a recognised navigable stretch of water and people mustn't be allowed to willy nilly change that..

I feel very strongly against people/companies etc circumventing the law at the detriment of others freedom.
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I have to agree with you on this.
Over time, little bits of freedom that we have enjoyed get chiselled away and if you complain you are labelled as a reactionary old grump.
In themselves, the losses are not usually enough to make you want to fight them, but they gradually mount up. Of course, new yachties don't know that they've lost them, and many wouldn't want them anyway.
Examples.
Access to and from the Crouch
Moorings filling up traditional anchorages
Blocking quaysides, and landing places.
Marine conservation zones.
Moan, moan, winge, grump.:(
 
Access to and from the Crouch?

I recall an article in YM many many years ago (when it still came on parchment) of some people who chartered a yacht from Heybridge Basin. At the end of their charter they were coming up the Blackwater in thick fog (before GPS peeps) intending to anchor over night and lock in the next morning. They found Osea but thereafter became lost and disorientated and sail about trying unsuccessfuly to find land to recognise where they are (ancient mariners will recall that Decca always used to lose position once you reached Osea - well mine did). Eventually they gave up and anchored for the night accompanied by a persistent whine which they could not recognise.

In the morning they awoke and looked out on the vista that is/was the Power Station at Bradwell! They reckoned in the fog they had rounded Osea and passed through the Stumble back down the river! They would have had a fail chance of a steel reinforcing rod through their bilge earlier this year.

Yes, I know, compasses, compasses. It wasn't my story.
 
tillergirl said:
Access to and from the Crouch?
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"In my day", there used to be free public access for boats at many spots.
Admiralty Hard Burnham, Creeksea, Wallasea Bay, Althorne, N Fambridge, Woodham Ferrers, Hullbridge, and others I expect.
I think only Woodham Ferrers is still available, all the others closed off or only available for a fee.
At the time some of these closures seemed to benefit sailors as it restricted speedboat use, but once you lose a freedom it's difficult to get it back.
We also used to picnic at places such as Raypits Farm and a small beach near the Cliffs, but the landowners now dispute the right to land.
I'm not sure if we had a legal right of access, but nobody ever questioned the use.
I believe a similar situation exists on the Blackwater at Bradwell, Stone and Maldon Prom.
 
DanTribe said:
Stone.
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Definitely Stone and it's ridiculously abused. £5 deposit for a key which often gets lent to 'chums' of the key holder. The pub also has a key which gets used more liberally than Salt on a take-away.

The only people that can't seem to use it are the occasional visitors who just want to launch their little boat on the slipway..

Regarding freedoms. Rarely do our freedoms disappear on mass. They are slowly eroded away. This constant trickle allows restriction to happen, with little resistance from the apathetic public.

Without wishing to be too dramatic, we MUST protect our freedom. You only have to look at what's happening in other countries to see the impact of people needing to fight for theirs. What we do now will affect our kids, grand kids etc etc.
 
Well details aside, it certainly indicates that we should not be surprised by 'underhand' tactics on the likes of the causeway etc.
 
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