Turning right out of Langstone

[Trintella]

I'm based in Langstone and often see yachts 'turning right' once they have cleared the outfall marker at the entrance.

I've been checking the chart, thinking I'd do the same, but it shows 2.5m drying so with a 4 m tide, only 1.5m over West Winner.

Does anyone have local knowledge to the contrary - has West Winner eroded?

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[waterbuffalo]

I also sail out of Langstone and turn right out of the entrance. Above half tide I keep appox 200 metres off the beach and so far have not touched bottom. My konsort draws about 1.1m. When returning against the tide I use the inshore gap in the submarine barrier. ( again above 1/2 tide)

how close inshore 'you' go will depend on your draft and confidence in the echo sounder and 'your' safe margin.

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[Trintella]

Thanks. I draw 1.3m and am quite confident in the echo sounder having checked it when on a pontoon (with a wieghted line I then measured).

Accoring to the chart, at half tide of say 2.5 m, 200m off there should be exactly no water at all.

I like at least 1.5m below the keel to allow for waves so I think I'll keep ploughing through the rough stuff upto the Fairway.

Shame really but I'm a bit of a chicken....

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[bob_tyler]

Years ago I was a member of the ECA - before the present clubhouse was built, and it was an ex army wooden hut.

I remember one oddity. If you drew a course from Langstone Buoy straight to the dolphins in the submarine barrier, on an Admiralty Chart it passed south of a wreck. On Stanfords it passed North of the wreck. (I may have got this the wrong way round)

What happens now or has the wreck gone?

Can some Langstonian please tell me.

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[Trintella]

Passes north of the wreck (if its the one marked by the isolated danger mark - can't see any others) on my maptech chart (Admiralty derived).

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