LBCBUGEYE said...
It is hard enough to get out to the dry lakebed when the wind is just right. Does the tide and wind seem favorable most of the time or is that just one more variable you have to deal with?
This is the beach we sail, the souhtern half under the black line.
The yellow line is as the beach is nowdays, the sand moved by wind and current a bit north.
The best sailing is North - west wind derection , shown by my track in red.
But any direction between SW and NE over the west side can be sailed.
Eastern directions then the wind is blocked by the Dam.
Starting at minimum 4 bft wind speed.
Than commes the variable we have to deal with;
the tide tabel and time window.
First check;
http://live.getij.nl/getij_resultaat.cfm?page=home&location=BROUWHVSGT08&timezone=MET_DST&refplane=NAP&from=20130129Here we see at what time the tide is how high or how low.
Just above the graphycs tells this; LAT=NAP -155
This is the beach/sand level. Under that level we can use the beach hole daylight periode.
In the mid winter ?7 hours daylight, in the mid summer ?16.
In the summer its very full with people, I sail only in the winter .
Webcam;
www.natural-high.nl/webcam-brouwersdam/Iff the water level commes up or over 155 cm in the blue collum at the right than the hole beach becomes water at shown time.
We have to wait at one hour after low tide in periodes with very high and low tides, otherwise the beach is to muddy.
So wind direction must be right and strong enough in combination with low tide.
At our coast we have very high/low tides, 2 days after new and full moon.
Almost no tide (dead tide) 2 days after firts and last 1/25.
Correct me if I am wrong, this worked so far for me.
