Approaching Brighton Marina

Brighton’s entrance lies between the marina’s east and west breakwater arms. The channel is buoyed with red and green markers and the inner entrance is marked by fixed red and green vertical lights. Speed limit is five knots. At night, the breakwater lights are visible up to six miles. 

When approaching from the west, please give the end of the western breakwater a wide berth to avoid exiting traffic. In heavy weather, many vessels choose to approach from the south, which avoids much of the backwash from the breakwaters. 

Entrance channel

The entrance channel is dredged to 1.7m below chart datum. However, storms tend to drive sand in to form a bank to the south and east of the end of the eastern breakwater and shoaling may occur in the entrance channel, particularly on the east side. Vessels with a draft above one metre are advised to wait at least 120 minutes either side of low water.