Denison Canal, Dunalley

[ChrisJHC]

Thinking of going through the Denison Canal on the return from Hobart in early Jan.

Anyone have any tips or tricks?
I’ve read the MST documents.

We draw 1.8 m so should be okay in most tides.

[Jim Cate]

We draw 2.2 and get thru on a 1 meter at Hobart tide. There are two shallow spots, one in the marked channel on the inside, one in the marked channel on the outside. They are nominally 1.3 m over datum and are pretty short to get over.

At 1.8 m draft should be pretty easy!

Jim

[Muzza61]

Go for it... time your transit with the tide. Have used it numerous times when delivering yachts to / from Hobart. Can a local give you latest intel on the north-eastern end? (The channel when we last transitted was not as marked).

MAST site has a Dec 2020 route for download.
https://mast.tas.gov.au/safe-navigation/denison-canal/

[ChrisJHC]

Hmm, had a look at the tides.
At the time we’d be looking at going through (4pm) it will be the bottom of a really low tide (0.09m).
If we don’t go through then, we’ll have to wait until the next day when we’ll have plenty of water.

Might be better to give it a miss rather than sit around for 16 hours waiting on the tides.

Oh, well, next time.