Local NtM re moving the pipeline from Stour to Bawdsey

[tillergirl]

There is another NtM giving notice of movement of a pipeline from the Stour moorings to Bawdsey beach. There is an image of the route this time so it is posted on page: http://www.crossingthethamesestuary.com/page9.html but in the Temporary List. You can download it: its a chart plotter screen dump (Ugh) clicking on the list. The movement is to the designated drilling area posted in the UHO list on Monday evening.

Part of the NtM:

Pipeline towage operation

Mariners are advised that between 22:45 hrs on the 26th of July and 01:00 hrs on 27th July 2018 one of the pipelines moored on the temporary mooring installation in the river Stour (Reference Notice to Mariners No 17 of 2018) will be taken off the temporary mooring and towed to sea.
Mariners are reminded that the pipelines are approximately one kilometre in length. Traffic management restrictions will apply during the towage operation.
All vessels must declare their intention to navigate between the temporary moorings and Landguard Point to Harwich VTS during 22:45 hrs on the 26th of July and 01:00 hrs on 27th July 2018 via VHF 71 or telephone.

 

[Cantata]

I think there was actually a diagram with the first one, Roger.
Anyway what is still absent is any NtM regarding these things being moored off Bawdsey. Monday's notice only talks about drilling. (What drilling, anyway?) Folk passing this bit of coastline, beware.

 

[tillergirl]

Not really correct!

The first Notice didn't have a diagram and still doesn't. But then there was no notification of the NtM on the subscription service.
The second one notified via the subscription service and their email didn't include the diagram. But if I had downloaded the PDF, it would have included it. But I didn't because I wanted to post it for the next day and I was dashing out.
The third one didn't notify via the subscription service either but when I had picked it up on the Monday's regular trawl I left it out as by now it was over.
The fourth one was received on the subscription notification and it has the diagram to which I referred via the PDF.
I sent an email to Harwich to point out about the subscription service but the email has bounced back. Not stellar.

And then:
The UKHO Temporary notice giving details of the drilling quotes two East Anglia WF notices. But the East Anglia website has never displayed either of the quoted notices so far this year.
Not very stellar.

 

[photodog]

So how many are left up the Stour now.??

 

[Malish]

So what is happening to them off Bawdsey? that's bang on my route between the Deben and the Ore

 

[Cantata]

Exactly my point above. There seems to be no NtM that explains what they've now done with them. Are they on the beach? Anchored off? If so in which orientation and how are they marked?
As I mentioned in another thread, I believe they are destined to be sunk across the Deben river bed above Bawdsey, to be used as ducts for the wind farm export cables. Presume the 'drilling' is to do with taking the cables from seaward beneath the headland?
Very unprofessional lack of info from the developers.

 

[tillergirl]

Given they indicated they have moorings in the designated area off Bawdsey (have you seen the NtM RivalRedwing?), it might be 'ducts' to come ashore on the Bawdsey beach.

This weekend I think I will send an email to the WF coordinator and raise up the issues of the failure to 'publicly' issue all the NtMs, the lack of clarity and the issues that were raised by the Guard Boat in a previous thread. I will copy it into UKHO and Trinity House I think.

 

[Jan Harber]

So what is happening to them off Bawdsey? that's bang on my route between the Deben and the Ore

On Monday this week, from the Coast Road at Old Felixstowe, we could clearly see some sort of 'rig' operating off Bawdsey, possibly 'drilling'.

Presumably something to do with the aforementioned pipelines. Had no binos so couldn't see anything clearly.

 

[Bongo]

I’ve found the workboats off Bawdsey responsive on ch16, re. which side to pass..

 

[Leighb]

We went up to Southwold on Friday and back today. There was some sort of drill rig off Bawdsey on Friday and we kept well clear. Coming back today I could see a guard boat with an orange buoy to seaward and steered to pass reasonably far offshore of them - I thought- they called me on Ch 16 and requested that I passed to seaward of the other orange buoy that I had somehow failed to see - oops ? . They were very polite however. Good job I was listening on 16. I assume that there is an obstruction between the buoys?

 

[tony_lavelle]

We passed the drilling rig (that's what it looked like) on Saturday and Monday. A very bored sounding Scotsman with a heavy accent on the guard vessel "Kustwerker" (I think) was broadcasting on the hour with his Lat/Long and asking "sailing vessels" to keep at leat 500 metres clear. However there were various orange and white buoys and it was hard to grasp which side they wanted us to go. They were not listening on channel 8 when I called them for instructions. They respond on ch 16 then go to ch 8.

 

[Bigplumbs]

I think the guard vessel is Coastworker

 

[Leighb]

Was definitely Celtic Guardian on Tuesday. Not a Glaswegian on the VHF though. ?

 

[Cantata]

Does anybody know if all the pipes have now been moved out of the Stour?

 

[sailorman]

Does anybody know if all the pipes have now been moved out of the Stour?

we anchored nxt to it 2 Sundays ago

 

[Sniper]

we anchored nxt to it 2 Sundays ago

Still one left last Sunday

 

[Cantata]

Thanks chaps

 

[Boz]

Still there today

 

[Bob Stays]

We were called up on Tuesday 21st. Aug by the Scottish guy on Coastal Worker who requested us to head out to sea rather than cross between two "norwegian? buoys" and the main land (Bawdsey). He quoted NtoM had been issued but I can't find anything specific about this. Can anyone advise me of where this information is, please?