Tide between Dungeness and Eastbourne

[Crazy-Diamond]

My Admiralty tidal stream atlas shows the tide is not so strong inshore between Dungeness and Eastbourne in the few hours before and after HW Dover. My passage plan has me rounding Dungeness going westbound at Dover HW-5 (not ideal I know) but to avoid the worst of the tide a slightly more inshore passage would appear to avoid the strongest tidal flows. Can anyone provide some local knowledge here please?

 

[Plum]

My Admiralty tidal stream atlas shows the tide is not so strong inshore between Dungeness and Eastbourne in the few hours before and after HW Dover. My passage plan has me rounding Dungeness going westbound at Dover HW-5 (not ideal I know) but to avoid the worst of the tide a slightly more inshore passage would appear to avoid the strongest tidal flows. Can anyone provide some local knowledge here please?

You can go inshore along by Hastings to reduce the effect of a foul tide but you have to be less than half a mile offshore, in my experience, to make it worth while but be aware that you will then be at a much higher risk of the pot buoys on Pevensey Shoals as you approach Eastbourne. Certainly too risky at night.

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[johnalison]

Providing they don't shoot at you, there are only the pot markers to worry about. It's a while since I went that way but a moderate hook inshore makes sense, though the difference is not great I think. You will generally do best to leave Dover with the first of the new tide and carry it round Dungeness.

 

[CalicoJack]

Don’t forget the ranges either side of Dungerness.