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Thought so, Channel narrows there even though dredged two years ago
but would have thought deep enough provided you bear right after passing last starboard marker per above. Usually boats get stuck around Tulleen Island at low tide where the channel narrows.

Oh, On map NGC1 above don't wander left after passing last port marker above 27 .46'S and you should have no issues.
Edit.
The route Lydia above outlines is a good alternative.

Having passed within metres of a rock that didn't appear on Navionics, Embark, the official chart or in any of the 3 pilot guides on our S.W. Tassie trip, I'd say use every available information source and keep yer eyes open!

Having used Navionics alongside the other sources extensively, I'd say it really is tremendously accurate. Pilot guides are generally great for indicating particular hazards.

Cheers

Bristol

That is slipping sands.
The other way is take the entrance north of Crusoe Island and follow it round to the main channel and pop out near cabbage tree point

Day time tides are not great next week but no reason you can't do it at night save for slipping sands as for a first timer there are many marks backing each other so would be very confusing

Arabella, I know all those channels pretty well after spending the last 40 year round them. The way you were going is by far the best way to go. Where you touched bottom is the shallowest point in the whole trip. If you basically stay on the dotted line on the Navionics chart you will be ok. We draw 2.2 and generally get through on anything above half tide.

Only two sorts of sailers in Moreton Bay.
Those who have run aground and those that lie that's they have not!!!!!
So don't stress it all mud anyway and the tide always rises.
I regularly push 2.65 draft around and stop about once a year and I am usually adventurous.

Jode5 said..
Arabella, I know all those channels pretty well after spending the last 40 year round them. The way you were going is by far the best way to go. Where you touched bottom is the shallowest point in the whole trip. If you basically stay on the dotted line on the Navionics chart you will be ok. We draw 2.2 and generally get through on anything above half tide.

Yeah that spot is a bugger , we only go through half tide or better and we only draw 1.3 , I ve seen dozens of Yachts caught out there

spiggie said..
Hi well after leaving Melb in 30 -40 knots plus 8 days ago and 2 overnight stops its time to negotiate the transit Southport to RQ how long does the transit take motoring at 6 kts is there a bottle shop on the way.

I have seen a floating bottle shop at Jacob Wells, but hasn't been open when I have gone past. Well, didn't look like it was open....

If you leave before 9 in the morning, all going well, arrival will be mid to late afternoon at Manly. A favourable tide helps.

spiggie said..
Hi well after leaving Melb in 30 -40 knots plus 8 days ago and 2 overnight stops its time to negotiate the transit Southport to RQ how long does the transit take motoring at 6 kts is there a bottle shop on the way.

Whats your air gap , I m sure your already aware of the powerlines !

15m no problem

spiggie said..
Hi well after leaving Melb in 30 -40 knots plus 8 days ago and 2 overnight stops its time to negotiate the transit Southport to RQ how long does the transit take motoring at 6 kts is there a bottle shop on the way.

The Jacobs Well Pub and IGA etc. is approx 150 metres behind the VMR building you will see beside the ramp and jetty. Many yachties pull there tinny up just to the right of the VMR jetty ( red marker below)on the sand to do shopping
Never seen the floating bar open .
OR there's Harrigans Pub at Calypso Bay with their own deep water jetty/ pontoon out the front .

Thanks shaggy back in Gippsland ,Jacobs we'll transit was a bit hairy with yachts anchored anchor lights a bit not too compliant some on some off ,what is that area ferals parking spot !! also numpties in dinghies with no lights ,crossing the bow .Rang up Southport yacht club asked to park there for an hour buy some beer and quick feed they weren't accomodating .Arrived RQYS about midnight .
Wow has that place has changed why would you call it a yacht club !!! Mostly stink boats.
Any way delivery took us 6 days ,left queenscliffe in a blow nasty seas at the port Phillip rip ,made lakes in 23 hrs ,stayed overnight 30 hrs later dropped crew in Port Stephan's then 2 up on the bloody nose till Tweed 2 days later tied up at to RQ .next week do the race early days but forecast is just over 2 days Pogo weather ,after race 8 day delivery home putting on the thermals as we head south then mostly 30 knt westerlys crossing the paddock.
yachting is great

Shanty said..

spiggie said..
Thanks shaggy back in Gippsland ,Jacobs we'll transit was a bit hairy with yachts anchored anchor lights a bit not too compliant some on some off ,what is that area ferals parking spot !! also numpties in dinghies with no lights ,crossing the bow .Rang up Southport yacht club asked to park there for an hour buy some beer and quick feed they weren't accomodating .Arrived RQYS about midnight .
Wow has that place has changed why would you call it a yacht club !!! Mostly stink boats.
Any way delivery took us 6 days ,left queenscliffe in a blow nasty seas at the port Phillip rip ,made lakes in 23 hrs ,stayed overnight 30 hrs later dropped crew in Port Stephan's then 2 up on the bloody nose till Tweed 2 days later tied up at to RQ .next week do the race early days but forecast is just over 2 days Pogo weather ,after race 8 day delivery home putting on the thermals as we head south then mostly 30 knt westerlys crossing the paddock.
yachting is great

Relic central down that way. Government has contracted someone to salvage some of them.

Oh ,I don't know . That's me at Jacobs Well two years ago and the housing started at at $1.5 /3 mil. You sure they weren't NSW/Vic, on holidays.
Seriously though it's pretty bad sometimes but times are a changing.
Jacobs Well fishing village itself was bikie heaven and very cheap living with easy access to the pub , shopping for live aboards and tinny heaven for jumping off jumpinpin

Shanty said..

Bananabender said..

Shanty said..

spiggie said..
Thanks shaggy back in Gippsland ,Jacobs we'll transit was a bit hairy with yachts anchored anchor lights a bit not too compliant some on some off ,what is that area ferals parking spot !! also numpties in dinghies with no lights ,crossing the bow .Rang up Southport yacht club asked to park there for an hour buy some beer and quick feed they weren't accomodating .Arrived RQYS about midnight .
Wow has that place has changed why would you call it a yacht club !!! Mostly stink boats.
Any way delivery took us 6 days ,left queenscliffe in a blow nasty seas at the port Phillip rip ,made lakes in 23 hrs ,stayed overnight 30 hrs later dropped crew in Port Stephan's then 2 up on the bloody nose till Tweed 2 days later tied up at to RQ .next week do the race early days but forecast is just over 2 days Pogo weather ,after race 8 day delivery home putting on the thermals as we head south then mostly 30 knt westerlys crossing the paddock.
yachting is great

Relic central down that way. Government has contracted someone to salvage some of them.

Oh ,I don't know . That's me at Jacobs Well two years ago and the housing started at at $1.5 /3 mil. You sure they weren't NSW/Vic, on holidays.
Seriously though it's pretty bad sometimes but times are a changing.
Jacobs Well fishing village itself was bikie heaven and very cheap living with easy access to the pub , shopping for live aboards and tinny heaven for jumping off jumpinpin

If your travelling down that way on the boat at night. I would keep a good lookout for old sh!tters with no lights. There was quite a few there in November 2018 when I was there last. In particular an old steel black yacht that was very hard to see. Didn't help it was a new moon.
Regards,
Mick

na don't do night anymore.

Funny story,
The inside course for the Surf to City race runs through this stretch past Jacobs Well.
One year we had a very strong tide pulling us south coupled with a light Northerly breeze as we came into sight of the Jacobs Well boat ramp.
You have to stay inside the navigation marks of course, so you had a good 20 plus trailer sailers and catermarans forced into short tacking across the channel to try and make your way past the boat ramp.

An enterprising chap apppeared on the end of the boat ramp, collapsible chair under one arm , a small esky under the other. Under the white terry towelling hat was the obligatory zinc plastered over his nose and a huge grin. A brain celll twigged, he looked just like ol' Norm from the Slip slop slap ads, as he set up his chair, plonked himself down, grabbed a beer from the little esky and settled himself in like he was ready to watch some performance.

We're almost at the boat ramp, sharing tacks back and forth across the channel , the bow is pointing at the boat ramp but the tide is ripping and we're being pulled south. Flop back onto the other tack, there is another 10 boats all on starboard , we duck a couple and end up two boat lengths further south.
Grrr...

45 mins and a squillion tacks back and forth , we're still pointing at Norm. He's had enough time by now to get drunk and even managed to go for more supplies, so every time the bow almost grounds on the ramp we get this enormous cheer from our spectator and hand waving , his beer going everywhere.
I finally cheated and went outside the marks, as everyone else had done after about 5 mins of fruitless tacking, and we managed to clear the ramp and get in a better tack, finally moving forward.

Ol Norm gathers up his chair and esky, looks around and contentedly wanders away waving as he did so.

We'd well and truly lost the race by now but everyone on board was in such a good mood thanks to the sheer joy on display from ol' Norm.
Gotta love this sport.

shaggybaxter said..
Funny story,
The inside course for the Surf to City race runs through this stretch past Jacobs Well.
One year we had a very strong tide pulling us south coupled with a light Northerly breeze as we came into sight of the Jacobs Well boat ramp.
You have to stay inside the navigation marks of course, so you had a good 20 plus trailer sailers and catermarans forced into short tacking across the channel to try and make your way past the boat ramp.

An enterprising chap apppeared on the end of the boat ramp, collapsible chair under one arm , a small esky under the other. Under the white terry towelling hat was the obligatory zinc plastered over his nose and a huge grin. A brain celll twigged, he looked just like ol' Norm from the Slip slop slap ads, as he set up his chair, plonked himself down, grabbed a beer from the little esky and settled himself in like he was ready to watch some performance.

We're almost at the boat ramp, sharing tacks back and forth across the channel , the bow is pointing at the boat ramp but the tide is ripping and we're being pulled south. Flop back onto the other tack, there is another 10 boats all on starboard , we duck a couple and end up two boat lengths further south.
Grrr...

45 mins and a squillion tacks back and forth , we're still pointing at Norm. He's had enough time by now to get drunk and even managed to go for more supplies, so every time the bow almost grounds on the ramp we get this enormous cheer from our spectator and hand waving , his beer going everywhere.
I finally cheated and went outside the marks, as everyone else had done after about 5 mins of fruitless tacking, and we managed to clear the ramp and get in a better tack, finally moving forward.

Ol Norm gathers up his chair and esky, looks around and contentedly wanders away waving as he did so.

We'd well and truly lost the race by now but everyone on board was in such a good mood thanks to the sheer joy on display from ol' Norm.
Gotta love this sport.

That sounds about right for there. Very friendly people
That bloody tide really gets going some days .