Crossing the Thames Estuary

New Third Edition now out and available at Imray.com

New format with all the popular content - routes, waypoints, descriptions, chartlets BUT with wholly new - quite different - Passage Planning Tables which are now simple and provide you so much more information.

An indispensable companion for planning Thames estuary passages, this book provides you with everything you need to plan your passage across the Thames Estuary.

The book provides you with guidance on the choice of route, variously between Ramsgate and the Kent, Essex and Suffolk Rivers. In the Third Edition, route guidance is provided for 60 routes, including the ‘outside’ route between Ramsgate and Harwich Harbour and the Deben. Each chapter provides all the data - distances, sectors, waypoints into one convenient place including the ‘rolling road’ for each route ready to be open on the chart table during your passage.

The new tables are a major development based on the original data but needs no calculations: it provides the results every 30 minutes of the day, for each route, northwards, southwards, Springs or Neaps at 4, 5, 6 or 7 knots boat speed. You just make the choice.

More information will be added to this web site shortly, illustrating the new format, the new layout and the new tables.

Other information available here

Updates for the book are available from this site. Also see our unique illustrated current Notices to Mariners service for the southern east coast of the UK and across to France, Belgium and part of Holland. Access is also provided to current Navtex data, live wind speed and wave height data and a choice of weather forecast sites. This can be found via the Navigation page.