tillergirl
Well-Known Member
We have been a bit slow with new threads what with laying up and all that so how about a whereisit? without a photograph.
Taken from Irving, 1933, obvious names removed.
"This is a very lengthy cross-sand passage to undertake, unless under power with a good turn of speed or given ideal weather conditions and a steady commanding breeze. A least depth of 3ft (on the crown of the ?(a)? Shoal) can be carried along the route at half-tide - 6ft over the ?(b)? Spit. At HW springs there is 10ft least water, and at HW neaps 7.5 ft. Over the ?(c)? and ?(d)? Sands there is 4ft least water between half-flood and 2 hours ebb. At the ?(e)? there is 10ft least water at half tide.
Craft with a draught of 4.5 ft and under can make the passage from half-flood to 2 hours ebb. The total distance, along the course suggested, from the ?(g)? to the deep water channel of ?(f)? is 10.3 miles.
Pass close SW of the ?(g)? lightbuoy. Bringing this mark astern, shape a course North (made good) [he means magnetic north in 1933!) over the ?(d)? Sand, across the ?(h)? channel and over the ?(e)? sand to the ?(e)?. Due allowance should be made along this section of the passage for the general south-westerly set of the flood in the whole area, particularly down the ?(h)? channel, and for the general north-easterly trend of the ebb stream over the ?(c)?, ?(d)? and ?(e)? sands, and the strong north-easterly scour through the ?(h)? channel.
The above course passes some 600 yards east of a ?(i)) on the (c) Sand, and half a mile east of a prominent ?(j)? on the ?(c)?
At the ?(e)?, course should be altered to N1/2W (made good).
A cast of the lead, the ripple, and the changing colour of the water will afford useful checks as to when the edges of the various banks and shaols are passed.
Can you name
?(a)? Shoal. It's not called a shoal now
?(b)? Spit. It's still there.
?(c)? Sands
?(d)? Sand
The ?(e)?
The ?(f)?
The ?(g)? Lightbuoy. It's not there anymore but there's something similar nearby which will do as an answer.
?(h)? channel
?(i)? A what?
?(j)? Another what?
g is the start and f the destination
Is this all too tedious?
Taken from Irving, 1933, obvious names removed.
"This is a very lengthy cross-sand passage to undertake, unless under power with a good turn of speed or given ideal weather conditions and a steady commanding breeze. A least depth of 3ft (on the crown of the ?(a)? Shoal) can be carried along the route at half-tide - 6ft over the ?(b)? Spit. At HW springs there is 10ft least water, and at HW neaps 7.5 ft. Over the ?(c)? and ?(d)? Sands there is 4ft least water between half-flood and 2 hours ebb. At the ?(e)? there is 10ft least water at half tide.
Craft with a draught of 4.5 ft and under can make the passage from half-flood to 2 hours ebb. The total distance, along the course suggested, from the ?(g)? to the deep water channel of ?(f)? is 10.3 miles.
Pass close SW of the ?(g)? lightbuoy. Bringing this mark astern, shape a course North (made good) [he means magnetic north in 1933!) over the ?(d)? Sand, across the ?(h)? channel and over the ?(e)? sand to the ?(e)?. Due allowance should be made along this section of the passage for the general south-westerly set of the flood in the whole area, particularly down the ?(h)? channel, and for the general north-easterly trend of the ebb stream over the ?(c)?, ?(d)? and ?(e)? sands, and the strong north-easterly scour through the ?(h)? channel.
The above course passes some 600 yards east of a ?(i)) on the (c) Sand, and half a mile east of a prominent ?(j)? on the ?(c)?
At the ?(e)?, course should be altered to N1/2W (made good).
A cast of the lead, the ripple, and the changing colour of the water will afford useful checks as to when the edges of the various banks and shaols are passed.
Can you name
?(a)? Shoal. It's not called a shoal now
?(b)? Spit. It's still there.
?(c)? Sands
?(d)? Sand
The ?(e)?
The ?(f)?
The ?(g)? Lightbuoy. It's not there anymore but there's something similar nearby which will do as an answer.
?(h)? channel
?(i)? A what?
?(j)? Another what?
g is the start and f the destination
Is this all too tedious?
