mik01
25-01-2008, 08:40 AM
Hi All,
need some advice please - hope you can help...
last weekend Gazza and I hit the Brissy river, then out through the mouth to Mud. Usually we go out and come back via the mouth.
Now the time before that, on the way home, we nearly broke our backs coming in to the mouth as it was a washing machine! It can really chop up at the entrance to the river at Fishermans island.
So, this time we decided to try to come home via the alternate channel in the pic atached (not sure of the name of it?). Anyway, it was low tide and I was flying south, virtually right in the middle between st helena and fishermans, at a good clip when the sounder started showing very low depth.
usually I don't pay attention to the sounder at speed cos it never really works properly, however if anything it always reads over depth. so when it started reading 0.6m I stopped and lucky i did!!!!! thats exactly how shallow it was!!!
so we were only about halfway down st helena and decided to backtrack and go through the mouth again. as usual, it was choppy as and thanks to a steaming ship leaving the mouth, once again we were airborn before I could react!
anyway, can you give some advice as to how to navigate this route? can it only be done at high (ish) tide? I wasn't game to go any further south or even to go closer to st helena and hug that side as it was just too shallow.
advice appreciated.
cheers,
Mick
need some advice please - hope you can help...
last weekend Gazza and I hit the Brissy river, then out through the mouth to Mud. Usually we go out and come back via the mouth.
Now the time before that, on the way home, we nearly broke our backs coming in to the mouth as it was a washing machine! It can really chop up at the entrance to the river at Fishermans island.
So, this time we decided to try to come home via the alternate channel in the pic atached (not sure of the name of it?). Anyway, it was low tide and I was flying south, virtually right in the middle between st helena and fishermans, at a good clip when the sounder started showing very low depth.
usually I don't pay attention to the sounder at speed cos it never really works properly, however if anything it always reads over depth. so when it started reading 0.6m I stopped and lucky i did!!!!! thats exactly how shallow it was!!!
so we were only about halfway down st helena and decided to backtrack and go through the mouth again. as usual, it was choppy as and thanks to a steaming ship leaving the mouth, once again we were airborn before I could react!
anyway, can you give some advice as to how to navigate this route? can it only be done at high (ish) tide? I wasn't game to go any further south or even to go closer to st helena and hug that side as it was just too shallow.
advice appreciated.
cheers,
Mick