Notice to Mariners Week 32

[tillergirl]

Simple week this week.

Two Temporary notices in the Permanent section (!)

1. Floating pipeline inshore to the east of Nieuwpoort;
2. Small move inshore of a buoy in the inshore northern approach to Vlissingen

Both illustrated on the web site.

Temporary notices - only one

Commercial operations starting again in Brightlingsea, starting at 0100 on Saturday using Oliver's Wharf. No one to impede the passage of such vessels.

That's it.

 

[Boz]

Hi Roger
I've just read on the CA site about a survey taking place for a new windfarm on the direct route between Shipwash and Ijmuiden. Try as I might I can't find any position information of the restricted area was wondering if you could help. I would have used a PM but thought others might know or be interested
Thanks
Russ

 

[tillergirl]

Have a look here: http://www.4coffshore.com/offshorewind/

This site is pretty good on detail and the current position of applications if a little flakey to drill down into detail. It might not have details of early ideas.

 

[Boz]

Hi Roger
Turned out to be a 'Wind farm under Construction' just South of the Ijmuiden Approach separation scheme. I think most people would pass South of it anyway.... Panic over

Looking at that website, the North Sea is in danger of becoming one massive Wind farm :ambivalence:

Thanks again for your help
Russ

 

[tillergirl]

Yes it is, with lane left for shipping. Coming back over the Estuary a week last Monday I reflected that Wind Farms were in sight everywhere (except when the vis closed down to half a mile). Long gone is the sense of loneliness that used to exist when you were in the middle.

 

[Mariner69]

Yes it is, with lane left for shipping. Coming back over the Estuary a week last Monday I reflected that Wind Farms were in sight everywhere (except when the vis closed down to half a mile). Long gone is the sense of loneliness that used to exist when you were in the middle.

+1

 

[Gargleblaster]

Long gone is the sense of loneliness that used to exist when you were in the middle.

At night I think the wind farms are magical with their twinkling lights. And certainly remove some of the boredom of crossing in the dark.

There are plenty of bare spaces when crossing between Jutland and Norfolk. It really doesn't feel populated until quite close to the British Coast in my opinion. And many more oil platforms than wind farms.

 

[Cantata]

Yes it is, with lane left for shipping. Coming back over the Estuary a week last Monday I reflected that Wind Farms were in sight everywhere (except when the vis closed down to half a mile). Long gone is the sense of loneliness that used to exist when you were in the middle.

From the clifftop near where I live, at the eastern end of Herne Bay, on a clear evening we can see two turbines on Sheppey, halfway along the Swale, plus the windfarm north of the Crouch on the Dengie, the one at Bradwell, the Kentish Flats (currently being extended from 30 turbines to 45), the Gunfleet, the London Array, and the Thanet. Bloomin things fill the view.