New Crouch Buoyage

[tillergirl]

The Burnham Harbour Master has just posted up a chart of the intended new buoyage for the Crouch which will be laid by the Alert starting the week commencing 11th July.

See the CHA chart here:

http://crouchharbour.org.uk/documents/1307120170.pdf

This is a little small printed in A4 so there is a sketch drawing and list of buoys which will work in A4 on here:

http://www.crossingthethamesestuary.com/page6.html

 

[LONG_KEELER]

The Burnham Harbour Master has just posted up a chart of the intended new buoyage for the Crouch which will be laid by the Alert starting the week commencing 11th July.

See the CHA chart here:

http://crouchharbour.org.uk/documents/1307120170.pdf

This is a little small printed in A4 so there is a sketch drawing and list of buoys which will work in A4 on here:

http://www.crossingthethamesestuary.com/page6.html

Swallow Tail buoys 1,2,3,4, are going to be very useful when going direct to the Spitway in bad weather.

Thanks for the chart.

 

[DanTribe]

Thanks for the heads up, very useful. Time to start reprogramming Mr Garmin.
It's a pity we had to lose the memory of Ron Pipe, and where does the name Crow come from? I've never heard that used locally.

 

[tillergirl]

Crow is from Crow Corner which is shown on the Admiralty Folio Chart 5607.12. It just appears as a kink in the sea wall adjacent to where the buoy is.

 

[DanTribe]

Crow is from Crow Corner which is shown on the Admiralty Folio Chart 5607.12. It just appears as a kink in the sea wall adjacent to where the buoy is.

Ah, right, I've never noticed that before.
I'm not sure what that buoy is for, seems a bit random to me. It can't be common for a kink in a seawall to get it's own nav mark.
At a meeting when all this was announced, I'm sure they said that there would be absolutely no shipping movements in the Roach.
It all looks as if it will make entering Crouch at night much less worrying.

 

[FullCircle]

Thanks for posting that Roger.

 

[FullCircle]

Does anyone think they will revert to the old system of buoyage once the project is complete?
Otherwise it may cost them a lot more in maintaining the increased quantity of lights.

 

[Victoria Sponge]

Thanks very much for that tillergirl

 

[tillergirl]

Does anyone think they will revert to the old system of buoyage once the project is complete?
Otherwise it may cost them a lot more in maintaining the increased quantity of lights.

Does seem excessive for 'normal' use. I would think it pretty likely that they would do some selective lifting.

 

[FullCircle]

Does seem excessive for 'normal' use. I would think it pretty likely that they would do some selective lifting.

I guess the current budget is covered by the cost avoidance of not employing Pilots, but that won't continue forever.

If they are spare, do you think they could rename one or two and put them over the Sunk Beacons? Perhaps we could have one called Tillergirls Passage?

 

[tillergirl]

Not wishing to be indiscreet but there is someone thinking that way - not the Sunk Beacons though.

Could my passage not be 'on top' of a Sunk Beacon please?

 

[DanTribe]

I guess the current budget is covered by the cost avoidance of not employing Pilots, but that won't continue forever.

If they are spare, do you think they could rename one or two and put them over the Sunk Beacons? Perhaps we could have one called Tillergirls Passage?

This work is scheduled to take between 5 to 10 years, so there's plenty of time to think about what to do with the spare buoys after that.
Despite RSPBs assurance that tidal streams will not be affected, I will be surprised if the river doesn't change much, so some relocation is likely anyway.

 

[Bru]

'Crow' made me wonder too - gonna need to draw the curtains now anchoring for the night in the Brankfleet to stop the red flashes from disturbing my kip! Can't really see what purpose it serves either.

The yellow specials along the Northern edge of the Swallowtail would have saved my blushes a few weeks ago ... although I'm curious as to why they're yellows and not port hand buoys