Notices to Mariners Week 4

Notices to Mariners for the Southern East Coast of the UK and across to France, Belgium and part of Holland

Four Permanent UKHO notices this week:

1. ENGLAND - South East Coast - Dover S and E - Wrecks. - three revised (less shallow) depths over wrecks south and east off Dover. All three amply deep enough for leisure craft;
2. ENGLAND - East Coast - River Blackwater - Depths. Drying heights. - my fault I'm afraid. UKHO have adopted my survey of Mersea Quarters last autumn so they have marked up 5 reduced depths including two drying heights. There is, the usual image, showing the revision but I have also added my chartlet of the survey - probably in tedious detail because it was drawn for the fairway committee. Both the UKHO and my charts are showing last year's buoyage but the Committee will be referring their revised plan to Trinity House for approval shortly, maybe even this week. The buoyage will change and I (and UKHO) will notify details to you all asap. You will note that 2m CD is no longer universal in the Quarters. Access around the moorings is fine; it is the movement of the Quarters Spit which is the problem.
3. ENGLAND - East Coast - Aldeburgh Napes - Wreck. - a new wreck off Aldeburgh - but well off and at 14.1m;
4. ENGLAND - South Coast - Port of Dover - Prince of Wales Pier and Eastern Arm - Buoyage. Maritime limit. - Legend. - works on the Prince of Wales pier and Eastern Arm - restricted area affecting the approach to the marina and the western side of the Outer Harbour. Still plenty of room though.

Please see all the images on the usual page at http://www.crossingthethamesestuary.com/page9.html

Temporary

1. EAST COAST OF ENGLAND - CROMER LIGHTHOUSE -On or about 7th February, 2017, for a period of up to 3 days the AIS service will be interrupted to facilitate the fitting of new equipment.
2. CROUCH HARBOUR COMMISSIONERS - Admiralty Chart Addition No 3750 Rivers Crouch & Roach advising a misprint: Burnham Fairway No 1 Buoy has been misprinted as Fl G 6S, the actual sequence is QG.
3. Ipswich Lock - Temporary Lock Closure for essential maintenance on the Flood Gates by the Environment Agency, Tuesday 17th January 2017 - 0730hrs - 11 OOhrs and Wednesday 18th January 2017 - OSOOhrs - 1130hrs
4. Norfolk Broads - Dredging work in Haddiscoe New Cut 13 February 2017 to 31 March 2017. That is all I can add at the moment as the web site is locking me 'out'!
5. Port of Wells - dredging - see details in the Temporary list on the above page.

Link to details - http://www.crossingthethamesestuary.com/page9.html

Local NtMs compiled by and reproduced by kind permission of Roger Gaspar, author of Crossing the Thames Estuary

3m Storm Surge 13th January

Further details here

The 3m surge is predicted at Sheerness at approx. 21.00 which is about 4hrs before HW (01.24  5.9m). There's another 1m surge predicted for around 03.00. Hopefully this will just mean two or three high tides tonight.

AGM Agenda posted on web site

The Agenda for the AGM on 27^th January 2017 has now been posted in the Members Area of the site.

Adam Turner's travels with his Club Burgee in the South Atlantic

The club burgee at 'the end of the world' Ushuia, Tierra Del Fuego

Falkland Islands, Antarctic Peninsula, and Cierva Cove

Notices to Mariners Week 3

Notices to Mariners for the Southern East Coast of the UK and across to France, Belgium and part of Holland

Permanent

1. A glut (7) of soundings reductions in the River Thames to the west of Sea Reach. Of 6 of the 7 are soundings around the edge of the Shipping Channel and of little consequence of us. One though, north of the Mucking No 1 SHB at 1.3m. Images of course at: http://www.crossingthethamesestuary.com/page9.html
2. Really just off the monitored area north of the Wash, deletion of 5 cardinal and special buoys installed for the construction of the Lynn Wind Farm. The Lynn Wind Farm is well finished so the lights on the wind farm are marked via the conventional wind farm yellow buoyage. Image of course available.
Temporary

1. Peel Ports (Medway) has brought forward all local NtoM from 2016 that remain in force to 2017 and renumbered. There is nothing new but I have listed the six relevant buoys in the new numbering. They are, of course, relevant to us;
2. River Crouch - Rice and Cole Pontoon off station for annual maintenance - beware the unlit piles;
3. Lowestoft, Lake Lothing Compass Buoy has been damaged and therefore is currently removed;
4. Port of Wells - dredging;
5. Approach to Kings Lynn - new local chart of the approach WE 3.01.2017. The Temporary NtoM page will provide the link to download the revised chartlet.

And that is that.

Link to details - http://www.crossingthethamesestuary.com/page9.html

Local NtMs compiled by and reproduced by kind permission of Roger Gaspar, author of Crossing the Thames Estuary

Notices to Mariners Week 2

Notices to Mariners for the Southern East Coast of the UK and across to France, Belgium and part of Holland

Only two Permanent:

1. UKHO announce they are issuing Edition 11 of the Leisure Folio SC5607 - Thames Estuary - Essex and Suffolk Coast on 26th January, 2017. So don't get the folio at the Boat Show yet! I would suggest anyone who wants the new Folio to go to Imray (web link on the NtM page: http://www.crossingthethamesestuary.com/page9.html). I understand the UKHO are planning to redo the full Admiralty River Blackwater chart sometime this year.
2. Not the most exciting - small reduction of depth at the edge of the Westhinder ship anchorage - at 16.5m and then a contour change (at 10m) at the northern finger of the Oosthinder sand. Image of course as usual on the above page. There is a download available of the contour change from the Dutch HO. More hieroglyphic than the UKHO NtM!
No temporary NtM.

Link to details - http://www.crossingthethamesestuary.com/page9.html

Local NtMs compiled by and reproduced by kind permission of Roger Gaspar, author of Crossing the Thames Estuary

UTC Winter 2016 Edition - Now on line

Thanks to Steve Simmons for his final edition of Up The Creek

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