Pictures of the Deben Bar at Low Water (ish)

[MrCramp]

I have been watching the pictures from the Felixstowe Ferry web-cam and I am surprised how near the first Red bouy after the safe water mark is to the sand banks. It does appear that there was a yacht stuck there around 1500hrs friday 9/7. Here is a link which should show the stills at 20minute intervals on friday 9/7. If you click once the still fills the screen and clicking again makes it bigger.
http://www.ffsc.co.uk/ffsc/picturearchive5.htm
I have been laid up with a bad back since April so I have not been out there, hence spending too much time on the computer!!
The 1440 picture show the bouy near the sand and from 1520 to 1640 there does appear to be a boat either stuck, or sight-seeing.

It could be there is more room and water than the pictures appear to show, but at least you get an idea of what it is like. Will be interesting to see the early morning low water pictures around 12 to 16 July.

 

[CliveG]

I think the angle of the picture is confusing.
From experience this year there seems to be a fairly wide area around the red buoy of similar depth.

We usually aim to pass the Red about 2 boat lengths to the North and the Green 2 Boat lengths to the South and don't turn up the river until about 3 to 4 boat lengths of the beach.

The shallowest area is just the inshore side of the Red.
Most of the way from the green to the red we if see, say, 2.5m and then it will shallow up to 1.9m for a few boat lengths and then deepen to 5m+ in a boat length.
I think that there is about 0.5m at the shallowest point at LAT.