East coasters - get out yer Notices to Mariners

[Twister_Ken]

"Reorganisation of aids to navigation
Saturday 30th June promises to be a busy day in the Thames Estuary as the biggest reorganisation of aids to navigation in UK waters for 30 years is carried out. Over a twelve-hour period three ships will move a light vessel nearly seven miles, lay 11 new navigation buoys, and lift and re-lay three others in new positions.

So complex is the operation that the Northern Lighthouse Board's buoy tender Pole Star has been called in to assist the Trinity House vessels Patricia and Alert. Work in the area, some 16 miles due east of Harwich in the northern approaches to the Thames, will begin at 0800 and complete before 1800.

The moves are in preparation for the implementation of the new maritime Traffic Separation Scheme at the Sunk which comes in to effect at 0001 on 1st July 2007."

 

[AIDY]

new chart maybe

 

[Habebty]

Exactly where I'm heading next week!! just looked at the notices on the HMHO site!!! might go North to Wells? instead of across the Estuary

 

[shmoo]

I've been banging on about this for a while. See the lead story on WCC website
http://www.woodbridgecruisingclub.co.uk/
It has links to NMs and draft sailing directions.

We are off on our summer cruise on 30th, right through the middle. I expect to encounter buoys with black plastic bags over them like road signs on incomplete bypasses.

 

[pvb]

[ QUOTE ]
I expect to encounter buoys with black plastic bags over them like road signs on incomplete bypasses.

[/ QUOTE ]Better look out for the speed cameras, too!

 

[Bilgediver]

new chart maybe

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Still beng correctred and printed and available soon /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

I expect the corrections are available on the Hydrographers web site.

John

 

[shmoo]

I don't think they are going to offer corrections.

My understanding is that current charts of the area now have the the suffix X (we should so mark all our charts) and these go out of date 1 July. New charts, some of which are available now (only full price not SC) come into force 1 July. SC charts will available "in July" according to SCD, our local UKHO agent

 

[mtb]

quite right to , wells is the place to be I'm out with my son during next week wave if you see us our thing is one of the first you see once past the lb station

cheers
Mick