New buoys off Yarmouth IOW

[PhilipStapleton]

The Trinity House vessel Mermaid laid a large lit E cardinal and an unlit W off Yarmouth yesterday. The E says "Wreck". Anyone know what that's about?

 

[RichardGriffiths]

Solent Coastguard are broadcasting a navigational warning about a wreck on Lymington banks at 50 43.10N 001 30.16W marked by two cardinal light bouys. Could that be what you saw?

 

[johnwest]

According to the navigation warnings from Southamnpton VTS
The cardinals mark a dangerous wreck.

 

[Alan1]

Does anyone know the full storey of this wreck ?

 

[landaftaf]

is it shaking/shivering ?

 

[Oldhand]

This wreck was well adertised on the Solent CG MMSI broadcasts and by NM on Navtex. As I understand it, it is probably a very old wreck which has somehow just been "discovered". The minum depth at the wreck is quoted as 20.5m and I can't understand what all the fuss is about as I have never heard of any ship approaching that draught using the West Solent. I think the biggest ship that used to use the Needles Channel was the QEII but since her grounding off the N. American coast, I don't think she has been seen in the W. Solent. Any way, I can't imagine the QEII drawing more than 12m.

 

[No1_Moose]

Maybe we heard it wrongly but we thought the depth over the wreck was 2.5m.

 

[Oldhand]

Negative, two zero decimal five meters stated very clearly on MMSI broadcasts and confirmed on Navtex NM.

 

[DJE]

Thanks for confirming that. We had exactly that discussion on our boat at the weekend. SWMBO saying it must be 2.5m or they wouldn't be making a fuss about it. Surely Southampton doesn't have any 20m deep berths so where would a 20m deep vessel be going?

 

[ChrisE]

Ddin't see myself this weekend when fishing at Sconce bouy but according to my charts it's on the rhumb line between Lymington and Yarmouth about 2/3 across from Lymington and in 25m of water. You might get the odd trawl going over it but otherwise it is well out of the way of our tender keels.

 

[Twister_Ken]

Wight Link Ferry steamed slap bang between them on Friday evening.

 

[Col]

It's an Ex MFV houseboat that sank on Thurs. Depth over the wreck is 2.5mtrs @LWS.

 

[Twister_Ken]

"Depth over the wreck is 2.5mtrs @LWS"

Must have been a heck of a houseboat, that's close to being the deepest part of the Solent.

 

[Col]

60ft / 60tons

 

[landaftaf]

about the calculated size of noahs ark then

 

[Solitaire]

It was being towed too fast by a tug and it was swamped and sank.

 

[Col]

You know which boat it was too I take it?