For Solent boaters - changes to buoyage

[BlueSkyNick]

Just been advised through our sailing club that Trinity House are changing the aids to navigation in the Western Solent. These changes are scheduled to take place on or about the 16th April 2006.

1. Establish a new red can (Port Hand) buoy in position 50deg 43'.10 N 001deg 30'.85 W with a Fl (2) R 5s light and wave accuated bell. The station will be named Lymington Bank.

2. Establish a new red can (Port Hand) buoy in position 50deg 44'.23 N 001deg 27'.37 W with a Fl (3) R 10s light. The station will be named Solent Bank.

3. The E Lepe buoy to be moved 391meters 209deg (approx) to a revised AP at 50deg 45'.93 N
001deg 21'.07 W (characteristics to remain otherwise unchanged).

4. The existing Sconce buoy station 50deg 42'.53 N 001deg 31'.44 W to be discontinued.

5. W Lepe buoy will remain unchanged in its present position.

 

[fireball]

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wave accuated bell

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I like that idea - wave and it will ring you back .... /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[Twister_Ken]

Interesting, Moriaty.

Just plotted them, and it looks like they are more closely defining a shipping channel with a min. depth of 15 metres (except 12 metres close to E Lepe) in the W. Solent. Wonder whether that means more shipping will come in that way, to avoid the congestion in the E Solent? Whose buoyage is it, TH or ABP?

Any one heard any consultation or discussion of this?

 

[l'escargot]

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....Any one heard any consultation or discusssion of this?

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Yes, started April last year - Trinity House

 

[theforeman]

looks like they`ve heard gludy is coming for the weekend /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[penultimate]

Sad to hear that Sconce is to be discontinued. In my dinghy racing days it was quite the most exciting rounding mark.

 

[ParaHandy]

TH are supposedly going to fit experimental AIS systems to Prince Consort and Nab Tower (or N2 just alongside Nab) which might transmit swell, wind etc info. I think the Prince Consort addition is this year and Nab much later ... these Aids to Navigation is what the Transport Minister in a speech last week was wittering on about although I got the impression he wasn't thinking of spending any money as he mentions "virtual" AtN several times whereas these AtN changes are "actual" ... joined up thinking again?

 

[jamesjermain]

This is good for yachtsmen. It'll make a night passage up the Solent a little bit easier with porth hand marks closer together.

I'm not so sure about the loss of Sconce, though. There's not much on the starboard side of the channel now between Warden and Hamstead Ledge

 

[AIDY]

Yup sorry to see sconce go... passing sconce and hearing the bell ringing away in the ripping tide always meant good times ahead whilst exiting the solent...

Got very friendly with it last year with a couple of other boats when we drifted on to it in the RTIR. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[ChrisE]

It will be interesting to see what effect the removal of Sconce has to the mackeral shoals, Sconce is usually a very reliable mark.

 

[ParaHandy]

they'll have absconced .... oh, all right ....

 

[ChrisE]

Para, that's three posts from you that I haven't understood a word, have they increased your dosage?

 

[Twister_Ken]

Yerbut Sconce doesn't actually mark anything. The shore at Sconce Pt is a) very visible and b) steep(ish) to. It was more of question of Sconce buoy being a hazard in its own right in light winds and strong tides.

Plus there's a lit buoy at Black Rock not far away, and I seem to remember that that little pier under Sconce Point has got fixed lights. Plus, if you're really fussed, you can come up the sector light on Hurst.

Sconce Schmonce.

 

[copterdoctor]

Has anyone told the mackeral Sconce is going?

 

[Twister_Ken]

You ever tried talking to a school of mackerel?

Even the ones sitting at the front of the class don't listen.

 

[ChrisE]

Now you're being silly.

 

[Twister_Ken]

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Now you're being silly.

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Moi?

 

[capt_courageous]

Stop being mackerelist. They are already suffering from the smoking ban.