l'escargot
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Some interseting seas breaking over The Shingles this afternoon (not just wash either, I was watching for about an hour). Looks like the recent gales and spring tides have pushed the banks up.
The Shingles
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Pinnacle
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Always thought it was a nasty place......... /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
BlueSkyNick
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oo-er.
what time was that, relative to HW ?
what time was that, relative to HW ?
l'escargot
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About 4pm today - an hour or so before HW Portsmouth.
ChrisE
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It was doing the same kind of thing at 9am as well, some of us were out in it....
lw395
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About 20? years ago there was an island there, complete with estate agent's sign. About 5 years before that I think I sailed straight over it!
stiknstring
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I was atop the spinnaker tower last Wednesday and saw seas breaking over the bar off Gilkicker point - it was at about half tide, I reckon. I can't remember it ever being so shallow there (used to keep the boat at Haslar until 3 years ago) - has the sand shifted off Gilkicker also?
flaming
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That almost looks like it might make a great surfable wave in the right conditions!
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I went around Gilkicker yesterday and it looked very brown/gravel coloured close in so being a natural scaredy cat (others might say prudent) I went well to the south as it didn't "feel right" taking the normal "close in" strategy.
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lw395
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Gilkicker is often quite lively, used to go wave jumping in a old 505 there! Its quite a sharp change of depth with plenty of current over it. Not exactly St Aldhelms, but has probably spilt a few G&T's in its time!
Andrew_Fanner
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If the photo had been "Iceberg in the Solent" I'd ave fallen for it.
bilbobaggins
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....The Shingles...
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It's always interesting to note those 'racy types' who, going out through the Needles Channel a bit to the right hand side and on a big ebb, fail to appreciate that the tide-stream - balked a little by the constriction of the Bridge - suddenly sets part-sideways onto and across the Shingles Bank. Then some of 'em find themselves bumping their keels across the gravel, with no way to leave the first mark of the course, the Bridge Buoy, to starboard.
And, having forked out a hefty race entrance fee, quite a few of those do not retire as they should, but continue in the hope that no-one noticed....
....that the first 'trap' of the Fastnet Race usually catches about a dozen before they're properly at sea!
Good fun!
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....The Shingles...
[/ QUOTE ]
It's always interesting to note those 'racy types' who, going out through the Needles Channel a bit to the right hand side and on a big ebb, fail to appreciate that the tide-stream - balked a little by the constriction of the Bridge - suddenly sets part-sideways onto and across the Shingles Bank. Then some of 'em find themselves bumping their keels across the gravel, with no way to leave the first mark of the course, the Bridge Buoy, to starboard.
And, having forked out a hefty race entrance fee, quite a few of those do not retire as they should, but continue in the hope that no-one noticed....
....that the first 'trap' of the Fastnet Race usually catches about a dozen before they're properly at sea!
Good fun!
/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif