Bristolfashion
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We rounded the Bill W to E, inshore passage, for the first time on Saturday 17th August - 4 days before springs.
HW +5 Dover was 1500hrs, we timed our run from Lyme Regis to hit around 2.5nm N of the tip of the Bill at this time - arrived around 1515.
Wind forecast force 2 to 4 W / SW which was about right.
We ran down the Bill close in on the 8m contour - around 0.1 cables offshore
We observed a few things and would be interested in others comments.
The water on the W side of was a bit bumpy - slightly uncomfortable, but not at all worrying.
The water at the tip itself was a bit more lumpy, but still unconcerning.
On the W side there was no completely calm passage - but no worrying race either.
As soon as we rounded the Bill, the water was completely calm with no evidence of a race anywhere.
Other boats seemed to head straight for the Bill tip without any effort to hit the mystical inner passage (local knowledge?). They then rounded the Bill & shaped up for Portland.
Is this calm inner passage a myth? And is the "small boy hitting the boat with a pebble" distance a bit of poetic licence?
All in all, a completely successful first passage, but not exactly as expected.
HW +5 Dover was 1500hrs, we timed our run from Lyme Regis to hit around 2.5nm N of the tip of the Bill at this time - arrived around 1515.
Wind forecast force 2 to 4 W / SW which was about right.
We ran down the Bill close in on the 8m contour - around 0.1 cables offshore
We observed a few things and would be interested in others comments.
The water on the W side of was a bit bumpy - slightly uncomfortable, but not at all worrying.
The water at the tip itself was a bit more lumpy, but still unconcerning.
On the W side there was no completely calm passage - but no worrying race either.
As soon as we rounded the Bill, the water was completely calm with no evidence of a race anywhere.
Other boats seemed to head straight for the Bill tip without any effort to hit the mystical inner passage (local knowledge?). They then rounded the Bill & shaped up for Portland.
Is this calm inner passage a myth? And is the "small boy hitting the boat with a pebble" distance a bit of poetic licence?
All in all, a completely successful first passage, but not exactly as expected.