Welcome to all our subscribers, including those who have recently signed up to these very occasional newsletters.
Our main news this time is that the new chartlets for the Deben and Ore entrances have recently been published on our website. Surveys were carried out by Trinity House earlier than usual this year, actually in February, and Imrays have as usual produced clear Trinity House approved chartlets from the new survey data. We have combined each chartlet with some words of advice and an aerial photo of each entrance taken by John Ranson at LW.
Although the route in and out of the Deben is much as last year, there is a new drying knoll to port as you enter, making it important to pass close to the Mid Knoll buoy. Depth is reported to be good, several of our readers seeing no less than 3m at HW-2½.
The Ore entrance too has changed little although we have noted that care needs to be taken rounding the Oxley buoy.
As ever, both entrances are perfectly reasonable to negotiate so long as you don't take chances with them. Follow all the advice and you should be fine.
These chartlets are the result of a unique agreement brokered some years ago between Trinity House, Imrays and ourselves, and indeed we understand that these are the only minor river entrances surveyed by Trinity House on such a frequent basis. We sincerely hope that Trinity House will feel able to carry on with the arrangement into the future, it being of immense value to the leisure boating community.
We continue to add News Items and Book Updates as usual to our website. And these days we also use our Facebook page to tell those of our readers who read social media - we used to use Twitter, now X, but the Facebook page has attracted a far bigger following, now with over 3,000 followers.
But our website remains the ultimate and complete source of any new information - we encourage you to look at it regularly to see anything new.
We do welcome any news of changes in the area that we may not yet have heard about. It's easy to email us via the website (or PM me via Facebook) and you will always get a prompt reply. Incidentally we are reviewing the future of these newsletters - they are expensive to mail out, and if we do continue with them we will likely change provider, hopefully without any need for users to re-subscribe.
I'm sure that Garth and I will be out and about on the East Coast this summer, and we look forward to meeting up with you if our paths coincide with yours.
Wishing you a grand summer's boating -
Kindest regards,
Dick Holness
Co-author and webmaster
East Coast Pilot.
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