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| - | + | Lefkas Canal runs for around 3.5 miles through the low-lying land at the NE end of the island and divides it from the Greek mainland. | |
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| + | The canal, which is dredged to a depth of 5.0 – 6.0 metres along most of its length, is shallow in places, especially at its N entrance, where depths are sometimes little more than 3.5 – 4.0 metres, and about two thirds of the way down from the N, where depths reduce at one point to around 3.5 metres. | ||
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| + | The N part of the canal runs between training walls as far as Lefkas Town and is marked by poles (a few of them with red and green markers) for the rest of its length until arriving at the three pairs of buoys at the S end. In places, the channel is quite narrow, and north-going and south-going yachts may be competing for the deeper water in the centre of the channel. | ||
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| + | There is a speed limit of 4.0 knots in the canal and sometimes an appreciable current of 1.0 – 1.5 knots, usually S-going. | ||
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| + | The road from the mainland passes over the canal at its N end via a floating bridge which opens on the hour from 0600 – 2100 but only on request outside those times. The bridge keeps listening watch on VHF channel 12. | ||
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Revision as of 18:06, 2 March 2015
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Lefkas Canal runs for around 3.5 miles through the low-lying land at the NE end of the island and divides it from the Greek mainland.
The canal, which is dredged to a depth of 5.0 – 6.0 metres along most of its length, is shallow in places, especially at its N entrance, where depths are sometimes little more than 3.5 – 4.0 metres, and about two thirds of the way down from the N, where depths reduce at one point to around 3.5 metres.
The N part of the canal runs between training walls as far as Lefkas Town and is marked by poles (a few of them with red and green markers) for the rest of its length until arriving at the three pairs of buoys at the S end. In places, the channel is quite narrow, and north-going and south-going yachts may be competing for the deeper water in the centre of the channel.
There is a speed limit of 4.0 knots in the canal and sometimes an appreciable current of 1.0 – 1.5 knots, usually S-going.
The road from the mainland passes over the canal at its N end via a floating bridge which opens on the hour from 0600 – 2100 but only on request outside those times. The bridge keeps listening watch on VHF channel 12.
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