Prince Regent River navigable between Spring and Neap tides?

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    • 01/08/2023 at 4:55 pm #4039
      Foxy Kitty
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        We are currently at Deception Bay a few days before the current Spring tide cycle. We are hoping to cruise up the Prince Regent River, but with the tide cycle and with visiting a few other places enroute (Sampson Inlet, Prince George IV) we would end up at the head of the Prince Regent River 4 days after the Spring tide and a week before the next Neap tide.

        We are a cat drawing 1.1m. Would there still be enough water on a 6m tide to make it over the sand bars downstream of Kings Cascade? And to make it to Cathedral Falls?

        Or should we hurry past the next few spots to get to the Prince Regent River during the current Spring tide cycle? I suppose we can always back track a bit before continuing E?

      • 02/08/2023 at 9:04 am #4040
        Ross
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          Should be OK, provided you work the tide to get up to King Cascade and back to a suitable anchorage such as Camp Creek or Purulba Creek on the one high tide and don’t stay too long at KC. The less stressful option is to dingy up to the falls from Camp Creek anchorage.

          Another way to judge the access, is if the charter boats are going up there, then it’s usually safe to assume you will have enough tide to get up to King Cascade. Also talk to the charter boat skippers on 16 and ask their advice. Most are very helpful.

          Cathedral Falls might be stretching your luck to get your big boat to in neaps. Best try it in your tender if you have the time while anchored outside KC during HW. Or dinghy up and back over one high tide to Cathedral from an anchorage the next day if you run out of tide the first day.

          Cheers, Ross

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          • 03/08/2023 at 8:54 am #4045
            Foxy Kitty
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              Thanks.

              FSC show an all-tide anchorage 0.75 nm downstream of King’s Cascade. We should be able to get there (and back!) near the top of the mid-Spring/Neap tides with our boat, shouldn’t we? I assume that there isn’t a pool deep enough at LW at the base of King’s Cascade to stay there?

          • 04/08/2023 at 9:31 am #4050
            Ross
            Keymaster

              I’ve never anchored in there, and not a spot I have heard about other people anchoring in over LW.

              Check out the FSC anchorage first, they are not always accurate, particularly in rivers that silt up. From there up to King Cascade, you should be OK on neaps, but make your own judgement on the day.

              Cheers,

              Ross

              • 04/08/2023 at 1:14 pm #4051
                Foxy Kitty
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                  Thanks very much Ross. We are using the FSC as our primary resource. We entered the river today and anchored in Purulba Creek. The White Island tides show today and tomorrow as the highest/lowest tides in this cycle. 4 days from now we’re only 1m less height, so I think we’ll be OK.

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                  • 01/11/2023 at 2:13 pm #4083
                    Blue Yonder
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                      Hi guys,

                      It looks like we will be hitting prince regent during neap tides, how did you go? how far up did you go?

                • 17/08/2023 at 3:56 pm #4057
                  test777
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                    Gday Foxy Kitty. I would be interested in knowing if you stayed in the anchorage near King Cascade and if so how it was. Did you make Cathedral Falls and how was that. Where there any anchorages available near Cathedral that you used. Cheers Michael

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