OW swimming location in Dublin thats not tidal

tunney

Anyway in Dublin that you can swim without high tides? Seapoint is it is all isn't it?

Sport101

Seapoint is not great at low tide, its a bit of a wade out to swimming depth.
40ft is fine and deep on both tides.

interested

In addition to 40ft, maybe Ringsend basin - its not exactly OW and there's been questions regarding water quality but other than (all) that ...
Id also guess that the spot just north of the martello tower along portmarnock might be fine as well ... Im sure someone will be along that'll know for sure.

gerardduff

They have recently installed 3 bouys around the 40 foot on the sandycove side. They're about 100-150 meters apart. A swim from Sandycove going from bouy to bouy ending in the 40 ft is (mostly) in fairly slack water but still as open water as you like. In can be almost completely current free, of course it varies depending on when you go...time and date. This weekend is a spring tide and I swam there last night...it was low water at about 7o'c and there was hardly any run on.
Because of the way the land lies it is tricky to judge the tide if you're relying on tables. It's best to just go and figure it out then. If you don't want to swim against a current you can find shelter on the sandycove side and stick to going around the first two bouys or from shore to first bouy.

Northside options...maybe bull wall? Depends what you want.

shels4ever

interested wrote: »

In addition to 40ft, maybe Ringsend basin - its not exactly OW and there's been questions regarding water quality but other than (all) that ...
Id also guess that the spot just north of the martello tower along portmarnock might be fine as well ... Im sure someone will be along that'll know for sure.

Portmarnock can be ok once it not low tied, if thats the case you have to go out maybe 50. Either side of low tide can be ok. Havent swam there in a while now.

Notwitch

Is the Malahide Estuary any good - inside the railway tracks where the kayak hire shop is?

It look's about 1.8k across between malahide and donabate.

Anybody any experience of it?

Bambaata

id love to hear of northside areas! Last year i swam at Bull Island two to three days in every fortnight (tide only suited then at 6:30/7) so id love to hear of others. I cant see being able to go southside at a reasonable time with work at 9am

Izoard

Camden Lock up to Ocean bar is non-tidal. Water quality is usually OK.

plodder

Notwitch wrote: »

Is the Malahide Estuary any good - inside the railway tracks where the kayak hire shop is?

It look's about 1.8k across between malahide and donabate.

Anybody any experience of it?

I used to sail there many years ago. I never saw anyone swimming though, even though it's very safe and not tidal. The bottom is quite silty from the broad meadow river, so maybe the water quality isn't great. Also, it's not very deep so you might have to walk out a bit to be able to swim. The place where most locals in Malahide swim is "low rock" (aka Robbs wall). Though obviously it's tidal there.

brownian

plodder wrote: »

I used to sail there many years ago. I never saw anyone swimming though, even though it's very safe and not tidal. The bottom is quite silty from the broad meadow river, so maybe the water quality isn't great. Also, it's not very deep so you might have to walk out a bit to be able to swim. The place where most locals in Malahide swim is "low rock" (aka Robbs wall). Though obviously it's tidal there.

It's a good while since I spent time there, but I used to windsurf there quite a bit. There were all kinds of nasty things on the sea floor-old car engines, jagged chunks of concrete, shopping trolleys, boat moorings... back then I wouldn't have swum there except by mistake. It might be better now ??

Down by the viaduct the waves and current can be quite interesting.