Swin spitway at low water

[MagicalArmchair]

Hello all,

I am heading off for our summer holidays from the Medway over to Suffolk and the delights of the east coast, and as ever, to catch the ebb out of the Medway, I end up hitting the Swin Spitway at bang on low water. I draw 1.5 meters and my tide table shows me there should be another 1 meter over the chart datum (which shows around 1.5 meters at LAT over the Spitway)... so I should be okay and have a clear 1 meter under the keel if I arrive at the very worst time.

Anyone been over there recently at low tide...?

Ta,

Mark
www.albinballad.co.uk

 

[Lucky Duck]

I crossed the Spitway at low water on the 6th July en-route from the Orwell to North Fambridge. From memory I saw a least depth of 2.5m.

Rather than following the line between the Wallet and Swin Spitway buoys I usually run due North/South from/to the Swin Spitway buoy as this tends to save some distance run and there appears to be more depth along this line.

There is a usefull chartlet of the spitway on the Crossing the Thames Estuary website.

 

[wingdiver]

We came across on Tuesday of last week at around low water.
We draw around 1.8m and had around 0.8m under the keel. It was flat calm. I am not sure I would have been so happy about it if there had been a bit of chop!!
Like Simon14b, we generally take the route from a fair bit east of the Wallet Spitway bouy to a point a little West of the Swin Spitway bouy.
There is a chartlet from last year on the most excellent Crossing the Thames Estuary website - a backup to the similarly named book -
http://www.crossingthethamesestuary.com/_wp_generated/wp3becf632_06.jpg

 

[FullCircle]

Not going to be a problem with 1.5m draft, have a fun trip.

 

[ex-Gladys]

I've been through 3 or 4 times already this season, and on the dead line of the buoys haven't seen less than 2.0 mostly it seems a bit more comfortable this year

 

[UncleAlbert]

Went through on July 1st at LW 2 metres showing under the one meter keel of the delivery boat we were on (cant vouch for its accuracy) . Took the direct line between the 2 safe water buoys.