Something For Weekend? - Sunday 28th July.

[nortada]

Just heard that, as part the Walton & Frinton Yacht Club (W&FYC) Open Day (Sunday 28th July), the Walton Lifeboat will be tying up alongside the club quay & inviting visitors (you) aboard to look over one of the RNLI's newest vessels. The Life Boat will arrive on the rising tide at about 1500.

In addition, there will be all of the usual attractions: raft race, duck race, crabbing for the kids (and their Dads) & much more.

Full details are available on the club website at www.wfyc.co.uk.

Rather than travel by road, why not make a weekend of it, bring the boat, pick up a buoy in the Walton Channel & dinghy up to the well buoyed Foundry Reach to the club?

A good over-view of the W&FYC & Foundry Reach from Spit Buoy to The Pond is at http://marinas.com/view/marina/6637

 

[Tomahawk]

Lovely ides..
Howevere, should we leave the delights of water so clear you can see the sea bed, hot sun, fresh moule Frites, Fresh Baguette and wondrful wines for a choice of red, white or rose and mud?

 

[Memphis Flyer]

Something For Weekend? - Sunday 28th July.
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I am sure this event will be a great success - they usually are. Let us hope that the weather remains kind. Please do let me know how the day goes.

 

[canoeman]

Been following the changes at Stone Point with interest.

With the changing situation is Foundry Reach & The Pool at Walton still accessible?

 

[Memphis Flyer]

Been following the changes at Stone Point with interest.

With the changing situation is Foundry Reach & The Pond at Walton still accessible?

Stone Point has now been dredged to a depth of 10feet at low tide but follow the buoys very closely as 2 smallish yachts went aground there last weekend.
Everywhere else is accessible.

 

[davidfox]

Rather than travel by road, why not make a weekend of it, bring the boat, pick up a buoy in the Walton Channel & dinghy up to the well buoyed Foundry Reach to the club?

A good over-view of the W&FYC & Foundry Reach from Spit Buoy to The Pond is at http://marinas.com/view/marina/6637

But dont do what i did a couple of years ago, leave it so late that the dingy was high and dry and none even at titchmarsh to give me a lift out to the boat, entire family had to stay in a dodgy B&B in Clacton alarming goings on in the middle of the night as people pitched back in at all hours. Still another dining out story to add to the many!

 

[canoeman]

Thanks.

 

[nortada]

Transited Stone Point last weekend about 2 hours either side of high water. Provided you stay in the buoyed channel (which is narrow) depth no problem but there was a strong sideways current between Island Point & Plumtree which could easily wash a low-powered vessel onto the buoys so give them a bit of distance.

Regularly use Foundry Reach between the Spit buoy & the W&FYC. Again the channel is well buoyed but the best water on entry is direct between Spit & Green 3, (Red 2 drys at the bottom end of the tide).

With a draft of 1 meter I can access the W&FYC wharf 3 hours either side of HW but only get around to the Pond 2hrs either side of HW.

For those interested I will post a GPS route super imposed on a Google Earth overhead.

 

[nortada]

There Is More To Life Than Mud - But It Is A Good Start

Lovely ides..
Howevere, should we leave the delights of water so clear you can see the sea bed, hot sun, fresh moule Frites, Fresh Baguette and wondrful wines for a choice of red, white or rose and mud?

Turning left - Cape St Vincent?

Remember me to Lagos as you pass (much cheaper (like free) to anchor in Alvor - 'bout 3nm beyond Lagos).

If you really want to, you could drift over the in Ria de Formosa, anchor off Faro (another excellent free anchorage about 4ks from the airport) & fly back from for Walton's big day!

Faro - Stansted - Faro in a day - done it. But will be very expensive at this time of the year.

Failing that, Hageso will raise a glass to you folk in Portugal & looking forward to a bottle of Calems & a Masiara or few in the Fall.

 

[canoeman]

For those interested I will post a GPS route super imposed on a Google Earth overhead.

Yes please - if we don't make the Pool for the Open Day, it would be useful for a visit during the school hols.

 

[nortada]

Chartlet of Walton Backwaters - Foundry Reach

Yes please - if we don't make the Pool for the Open Day, it would be useful for a visit during the school hols.

Hopefully the attachment works & meets your requirement.

By staying in the channel close to the buoys, with 0.7m drought, we reached the W&FYC club quay 3hrs before high water.

Anybody know the Life Boat's drought as this will govern how long their visit will last

While along side the Life Boat will occupy the whole of the quay so it will not be available for large visiting vessels but dinghies will not be a problem as they can run foundry Reach at all but the bottom of the tide & there are plenty of landing point around the club.

Feel free to PM if you require further information.

 

[canoeman]

View attachment 33841

Hopefully the attachment works & meets your requirement.

By staying in the channel close to the buoys, with 0.7m drought, we reached the W&FYC club quay 3hrs before high water.

Anybody know the Life Boat's drought as this will govern how long their visit will last

While along side the Life Boat will occupy the whole of the quay so it will not be available for large visiting vessels but dinghies will not be a problem as they can run foundry Reach at all but the bottom of the tide & there are plenty of landing point around the club.

Feel free to PM if you require further information.

Thanks for the attachment.

A useful chart so how did you produce it & is there one for Stone Point?

 

[nortada]

Earth Google Chartlets

Thanks for the attachment.

A useful chart so how did you produce it & is there one for Stone Point?

It's dead easy - has to be if I can do it!

I use a Garmin hand-held GPS.

Run the GPS to capture the Active Route, annotating way-points where necessary.

Use USB to connect GPS to computer.

Open Earth Google, select Tools, GPS, Import & watch it all happen (sometimes upload fails if so just reselect).

Scale chartlet, amend data as required & save. Easy as that.

As a postscript - we use this system all the time so have built up a library of chartlets, which we print off as required.

They can be particularly useful on difficult re-entries such as the Deben or, in Portugal, Alvor or the Rio Guadiana.

Canoeman - hope this helps. If you require more detail please feel free to PM me.

 

[nortada]

Thanks for the attachment.

A useful chart so how did you produce it & is there one for Stone Point?

Canoeman - just noticed the second part of your post.

The Stone Point situation highlights the weaknesses of these chartlets. No depth information & in a rapidly changing situation, they quickly become dated.

Sure you will agree, an incorrect chart is worse than no chart at all.

Therefore, I haven't published a chartlet for Stone Point; rather follow the current advice provided in another very active thread on this forum.

Hope we meet up soon.

 

[canoeman]

Thank You

Canoeman - just noticed the second part of your post.

The Stone Point situation highlights the weaknesses of these chartlets. No depth information & in a rapidly changing situation, they are quickly become dated.

Sure you will agree, an incorrect chart is worse than no chart at all.

Therefore, I haven't published a chartlet for Stone Point; rather follow the current advice provided in another very active thread on this forum.

Hope we meet up soon.

Thank you for all of the info.

Like your charts & will try produce some myself. If I hit a problem I will PM you?

Don't think we will be in the Walton Backwaters this weekend so will have to give the Lifeboat a miss but could be at the Pirate's BBQ so could meet-up there.

Thanks

 

[nortada]

Stone Point - Wrong Thread

Thank you for all of the info.

Like your charts & will try produce some myself. If I hit a problem I will PM you?

Don't think we will be in the Walton Backwaters this weekend so will have to give the Lifeboat a miss but could be at the Pirate's BBQ so could meet-up there.

Thanks

Just tracked from over-night at anchor in Landermere Creek out to Red 8 & a buoy crawl through the Stone Point channel 1 hour before low water on spring tides.

Shallowest point was 1.6m between Red 12 (Colin Bloom) & Red 14 (Frank Bloom).

Will reduce to chart datum & post the chartlette on the Stone Point & Pirates Threads.

Canoeman - hoping to make the Pirates week-end so may see you there.