Whitstable Live Cam

It offers sea sailing protected from all directions except the North East. South East lie the heights of Tankerton and Herne Bay that make an ideal viewing platform and from which there are panoramic views of the sailing area. South West are the Seasalter Marshes that protect the estuary from the prevailing South Westerlies.

The marshes reduce wave generation while allowing the wind to sweep in unmolested. The whole area out as far as Red Sands Forts, five miles to the North is unusually shallow, except for a deep water channel running NE along the Southern shore of Sheppey. This produces calmer sailing with little tidal flow, but creates the risk of running aground on sandbanks that may stretch from Seasalter three quarters of the way to Sheppey.