Ryde Harbour Navigation. Pictures of navigation marks and hazards. Harbour approach chart.
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Ryde Harbour, The Esplanade, Ryde, Isle of Wight, PO33 1JA
Tel: 01983 613879
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The harbour entrance looking towards the sea showing the channel. When leaving the harbour at the edge of your tide window, keep slightly towards the green side, and steer towards the end of Ryde pier for 100 metres before turning into the buoyed channel. This is to avoid the red side sand bar which build up from time to time. Likewise when entering the harbour the last 100 metres or your course should be the reciprocal of the above. The bed of the channel between the piles is approx 1.45 metres above chart datum .
The harbour entrance looking towards the harbour showing the channel. Note the stony ground by no. 5 buoy on the right.
Red side pile at the entrance.
Green side pile at the entrance.
No.1 buoy at the seaward end of the buoyed channel.
No. 2 buoy. Note the tide running from east to west.
The tide across the entrance turns about two and a half hours before high water to the west, and flows to the west until about low water when it sets to the east again.
The buoyed channel from the harbour entrance. This channel is just marked and not a dredged channel.
Red side 2 x vertical red lights
Green side flashing light.
The harbour entrance at nearly low tide. The exact shape of the sand bar changes from year to year, but the deepest channel generally is slightly to the green side.
Ryde is a drying harbour and is accessible typically plus and minus two and a half hours either side of high water depending on the your vessels draught. The depth of water varies across the harbour, being slightly deeper towards the north side. The bottom at B3 pile in the centre of the harbour is 2.2 metres above chart datum. On very high spring tides, there is a double tide with about an hour and a 10 cm dip between them. The photos here are taken at nearly low tide so you can see the channel at the entrance.
Navigation information, depths and hazards are subject to change due to operational circumstances tides and weather, and as such must be used with caution.
All boats to call “RYDE HARBOUR” on channel 80 when approaching the harbour.
Approach at night can be tricky because of the many coloured lights along the seafront, this makes it difficult to pick out the harbour entrance lights. The buoyed channel is unlit. Because the buoys are made of fibreglass they present a poor radar target except the No 1 buoy which has a radar reflector. On a typical small boat radar it can be detected at about 1 mile and becomes a reliable target at 0.5 mile.
