Power Station Creek

[Peppermint]

Solent bashers know love and avoid this picturesque anchorage. Mainly because sea schools haunt it's charming waters. If you should be in for a bit of training soon beware. We found 0.60m (2ft) less water in the channel than we predicted.
VTS stated that the tide was to prediction so I suspect a bit of silting. Ashlet Creek was quite shallow too.

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[castaway]

What do you reckon the chances of getting a 5ft draft 36fter up and alongside the quay at Ashlett creek are? Ive only ever sail dinghies in there before but now rather fancy overniting against the quayside/pub.

Regds Nick

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[Peppermint]

I'd be looking nearer to springs than neaps.

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[Steveba]

We have just been talking about power station creek but can't find it on chart, can someone tell me where it is please?

 

[VicS]

We have just been talking about power station creek but can't find it on chart, can someone tell me where it is please?

Vry old thread ... pobably silted up completely now

Seriously

see http://www.visitmyharbour.com/viewchart.asp?chart=1DD57B424CBE22423

runs from the SE corner of Fawley power station site into Southampton water

 

[Lady Campanula]

Your wish is my command, o captain.....

 

[prv]

We have just been talking about power station creek but can't find it on chart, can someone tell me where it is please?

You probably mean Ower's Lake.

Pete

 

[VicS]

See http://www.troppo.co.uk/tightwad/owers.htm

The channel I mentioned above leads to Owers lake and the power station cooling water intake. IIRC there is also small RoRo dock there. Probably where some of the big transformers were taken in when the place was built.

Lady C's Chart shows Ashlett creek ( Note that the entrance to Ashlett is now different ... further south and straight in towards the SC)

 

[Mark-1]

Solent bashers know love and avoid this picturesque anchorage. Mainly because sea schools haunt it's charming waters. If you should be in for a bit of training soon beware. We found 0.60m (2ft) less water in the channel than we predicted.
VTS stated that the tide was to prediction so I suspect a bit of silting. Ashlet Creek was quite shallow too.

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I like it. Industrial Chic.

 

[prv]

See http://www.troppo.co.uk/tightwad/owers.htm

Seen it, have a printed copy on board, know it by heart and regularly anchor there.

The channel I mentioned above leads to Owers lake and the power station cooling water intake.

I know. Not sure why you're telling me this.

I was just providing the OP (well, this year's OP) with a better-known name. I've never seen "power station creek" before, so doubt he'd find much information looking for that.

Pete

 

[VicS]

"Power station Creek" is a well known informal name.
I'd heard that long before I'd heard of Owers Lake

The channel to the Power Station is well marked and shown on charts that dont identify Owers lake.

However Steveba, and anyone else interested, has all the info now:

• The link I gave to a chart that shows the area including the entrance channel to the power station.
  
• Speculation from you that he might have meant Owers lake
  
• The link I gave to the section of Tightwad' s website that describes Owers lake
  
• A chart from Lady C that shows Ashlett creek.
  
• A note from me that the entrance to Ashlett creek has been changed.

Just for completion here is a link to a chartlet on the Ashlett Creek SC website that shows the new entrance
http://www.ashlettsc.com/Docs/Creekmap.pdf

 

[actionoptics]

Ashlett Creek

What do you reckon the chances of getting a 5ft draft 36fter up and alongside the quay at Ashlett creek are? Ive only ever sail dinghies in there before but now rather fancy overniting against the quayside/pub.

Regds Nick

I have an LM 30 in Ashlett Creek and its draught is 4ft 3". I can come and go on a 4.1 m tide so you will need 4.3m .
As already stated the entance is straight in following our three new red buoys using a back bearing on Hamble Point cardinal of about 62 degrees. The first part of the channel in the creek is quite easy to follow - just keep between the port and starboard poles but after turning the bend after the first of the boat moorings, it goes quite sharply to starboard before curling round to the final red marker on the U bend that you can see on the chartlet. You must turn hard to port after rounding that pole and head for the red post on the end of the sailing club pontoon. The locals now don't bother with the old twisting channel so instead of turning to starboard, we go straight ahead, skirting the mooring trot lines starting with the one with two large pinkish buoys and aiming to be about a boats length off the end of the pontoon before turning to port.
You are welcome to moor on our pontoon (£4 for a short stay £8 overnight incl power and showers and use of the bar in The Mill) and the bottom is very thick mud so even fin keelers can stay upright.
Good luck.

 

[DJE]

What do you reckon the chances of getting a 5ft draft 36fter up and alongside the quay at Ashlett creek are? Ive only ever sail dinghies in there before but now rather fancy overniting against the quayside/pub.

Regds Nick

We got to the quay on a big spring this year and there was about 5ft 6in but the top of the quay was under about 3in of water! If you can see the quay you will struggle to reach it. But the sailing club pontoon (on the left about 100 yds before the quay) has a foot or two more water. There is 6ft there on a normal high tide.

 

[Lady Campanula]

Is this more helpful....?

 

[Steveba]

Thank-you to everyone who replied, we didn't make it there but somewhere to bear in mind for another time.