Scarborough to Hutchies route advice

[llourd]

Looking at the charts trying to plan a route from Scarborough out to Hutchies it seems there are several cases where i will have to navigate shallows. i am struggling to work out the most efficient route there and back (least amount of turns and switchbacks). can anyone give some advice on the best route to use? i only need a minimum of 1.5 meters draft.

[Midnight]

Head out past the Scarborough blinker to the South West Spit port marker bouy, up the Pearl Channel, cross the Yule Road, and around Combyuro Point via the Kianga or Freeman Channels. The area directly north of Moreton, through the Kianga or Freeman can be ugly on a big run out tide, with any swell rolling in.
Sometimes in those conditions it can be a bit nicer going out through the North East Channel and up through the "Trench" to Hutchies. I have caught plenty of Spanish and Wahoo trolling up the Trench to Hutchies.

Cheers,
Myles

[barra71]

Hi llourd, from my trips out i have found it best to stay away from the shallows and stick to deep water as much as i can, you will get a better ride and not as much swell.
in saying that i leave from Bribie and have never left from Scarborough. There would be a lot of guys on here that would know a lot more about that run than me..

[sporty1]

Hi Barra

i am heading to wide caloundra next week leaving from the boat ramp at Bongaree, is it as simple as heading out around the point of bribie and heading out or is there a better way to go. I went from here a couple of months ago but the weather was perfect so no swell at all and it was easy. Might need some better directions if there is any weather or swell about. I have a 6m cc plate alloy and do not draw a great depth.

[TREVELLY]

I go the way midnight says both day and night - each time I tried to follow someone I thought knew a better way I ended up in shallows.

Amazes me the number of boats going absolutely flat out on a direct line over sandbanks in places 600mm deep in big outfits - must have crap sounders or complete lunatics.

[barra71]

Hi Barra

i am heading to wide caloundra next week leaving from the boat ramp at Bongaree, is it as simple as heading out around the point of bribie and heading out or is there a better way to go. I went from here a couple of months ago but the weather was perfect so no swell at all and it was easy. Might need some better directions if there is any weather or swell about. I have a 6m cc plate alloy and do not draw a great depth.

Hi sporty1, i do the same as i have my tracks saved in my gps, if there is a swell i will go out via the point, if no swell i have tracks that i can go via trips before..

[tenzing]

Try this out,
Cheers
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[fisho8]

Might have a go at that track Tenzing I did not hug that inner tip or moreton enough and got hammered going through the swell on those bloody sand bars the day we saw you down at the ramp my calf muscles were had it the next day lol. Wasn't the best day to be out just the same.

[tenzing]

Might have a go at that track Tenzing I did not hug that inner tip or moreton enough and got hammered going through the swell on those bloody sand bars the day we saw you down at the ramp my calf muscles were had it the next day lol. Wasn't the best day to be out just the same.

Yeah you are best off in the channel there but you can cut straiught fom Mark 9 to 7 on the higher tides.
Have found this the quickest route at low tide from Scarby across.
The Navionics app on the ipad works a treat too.
Easiest route set ever, Used it last week when the raymarine aerial went on hols. Worked great guns in a waterproof OB cover.
Cheers
Brendan

[chris_s]

I'm the same as tenzing. No issues in all the years and tides I've travelled that route.

[tenzing]

This may be clearer
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[lethal098]

Tenzing is on the Money,

That Trail was the same route that the Comby Trader used to Take,
Have a look on a Paper chart and it will give you the Co ordinates of the waypoints.

Cheers Lee

[Midnight]

It is Lethal, but I have been on the Combie when it has sat on the bottom through there with waves breaking over the ass haha

[lethal098]

Yeah seen that as well, But he started to try and shortcut the top of the western banks, The banks have been shifting North over the last few years and if you compare the latest chart to the previous chart you can see just how far they have moved.

Do the run yourself in Daylight on Low tide as i have done and you find the best way thru,