Bank Robbery - December MBY

[benjenbav]

Who nicked the Bramble Bank? Or has it just been airbrushed out of history?

I was reading Jon Mendez' excellent article on pp 82-84 of December's MBY this morning and found myself troubled by the fact that the North Cardinal in the diagrams doesn't appear to be serving any navigational purpose: the one area of open water on Jon's diagrams is to the south of the north cardinal.

Lokking at the accompanying pix together with the diagrams we are clearly looking at Fawley Oil Refinery and the Calshot North Cardinal which is there to keep ships in the Thorn channel and off the Bramble Bank.

But for editorial reasons, no doubt, the Bramble Bank has gone missing from the article.

I think I might have to take the boat over there later today and check it's still there.

 

[powerskipper]

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Who nicked the Bramble Bank? Or has it just been airbrushed out of history?

I was reading Jon Mendez' excellent article on pp 82-84 of December's MBY this morning and found myself troubled by the fact that the North Cardinal in the diagrams doesn't appear to be serving any navigational purpose: the one area of open water on Jon's diagrams is to the south of the north cardinal.

Lokking at the accompanying pix together with the diagrams we are clearly looking at Fawley Oil Refinery and the Calshot North Cardinal which is there to keep ships in the Thorn channel and off the Bramble Bank.

But for editorial reasons, no doubt, the Bramble Bank has gone missing from the article.

I think I might have to take the boat over there later today and check it's still there.

be a good buoy and don't play chicken with that bank, it is there and I know it is, I have tried to pull a yacht off it before now, and I know of a very embarrassed year or so ago student who dinged his props on it badly, when I saw him , he told me he it did not look at his chart before.................. long story LOL, involving alcohol, new girl friend and how would we say it, showman ship, or, well, lack of it in this instance, LOL.


Trust me .


behave.


and play nice




keep away from it unless planning to play cricket.

 

[powerskipper]

PS

P.S Cluck , Cluck

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

Its the spending cuts. To save money HMG has cut the Bramble Bank. Rumour is that the IoW is next

 

[benjenbav]

Actually, I was quite thrilled by the article because I thought that the technique of working out a position by sidling up to anything with a name painted on it and then finding that on the chart was not really the done thing although, really, why not use any signpost that's available?

 

[Morpheous]

Glad thats not just me then. I alway slow near significant markers so I can read what they are just to be sure.

 

[Nautibusiness]

Its the spending cuts. Rumour is that the IoW is next

Now that's no bad thing is it!?

 

[Nautibusiness]

keep away from it unless planning to play cricket.

It's quite good for fishing over high water.
Plenty of Mackerel and Bass on the three foot lines and in the gulleys on either side it can be full of Smoothound.
Quite good really as you'd get soggy whites if playing at high tide so it gives you something to do while waiting for it to ebb a bit.

 

[Jonmendez]

Stolen Bramble Bank

In line with government policy, that they own the banks, they nicked Bramble as well!! Seriously there are lots of copyright issues with reproducing charts, so I tend to just do PowerPoint illustrations which their very cleaver illustrator Maggie turns into pictures. I like to keep them simple - hence no Bramble Bank!!

 

[benjenbav]

In line with government policy, that they own the banks, they nicked Bramble as well!! Seriously there are lots of copyright issues with reproducing charts, so I tend to just do PowerPoint illustrations which their very cleaver illustrator Maggie turns into pictures. I like to keep them simple - hence no Bramble Bank!!

Tell me about copyright!

I read your article, admittedly with a slightly thick head on Sunday morning and couldn't get over the fact that there was a north cardinal in the diagrams with no hazard to the south of it. My reaction on seeing cardinals is usually to try to work out what they're there for and so I started to ponder.

Anyway, pulling your leg aside, I think it's a great series of articles. I did think it was really useful to point out in this one that there's lots of commonplace stuff to help find or confirm where you are. Too often I think people tend to assume that there's chartplotters on the one hand and salty sea dogs with sextants on the other and nothing much in between.