tillergirl
Well-Known Member
Guapa's kind comment prompted this thread which I have been thinking about for a while.
The end of the year (which is but a few weeks away!) is a good time for changes in what I do. This year is the first full year of doing the weekly checks and it has proved to be not too onerus. But what do you need/want.
The idea is to provide a complete list of notices each week for the area from Boston to Ramsgit including across the Estuary, split into permanent and temporary. The permanent notices gives detail of the Admiralty and Imray charts affected, an image (if I can do one) of the change and a comment about relevance to leisure sailors. For Temporary Notices, I monitor UKHO, Trinity House, PLA, Harwich (which includes Ipswich), Great Yarmouth, Brightlingsea, Crouch, Medway and the Wind Farms (only the London Array puts out a quality service) but I do not show charts affected or generally comment.
I then add copies of the permanent notices to six zones, the idea being that if you rarely go out of your locality all you have to do is check your zone weekly. the flaw in that is that I have not been adding the Temp notices to those zones. Question: Are the zone repetitions useful and/or should I be adding the Temporary Notices?
Question now about coverage: Would there be interest in an extension of the Service to cover a wedge from say Calais to the Hook of Holland and anything in between those places and us? It is best for me to align the service with specific Admiralty Charts but I suspect it would not add too much extra work. At first glance that would be about 7 extra charts to check on (110, 207, 323, 1606, 1873 and 1874).
Anything else? Do the weekly posts help? Should I carry on with those during the winter?
No promises but I will certainly consider any suggestions.
The end of the year (which is but a few weeks away!) is a good time for changes in what I do. This year is the first full year of doing the weekly checks and it has proved to be not too onerus. But what do you need/want.
The idea is to provide a complete list of notices each week for the area from Boston to Ramsgit including across the Estuary, split into permanent and temporary. The permanent notices gives detail of the Admiralty and Imray charts affected, an image (if I can do one) of the change and a comment about relevance to leisure sailors. For Temporary Notices, I monitor UKHO, Trinity House, PLA, Harwich (which includes Ipswich), Great Yarmouth, Brightlingsea, Crouch, Medway and the Wind Farms (only the London Array puts out a quality service) but I do not show charts affected or generally comment.
I then add copies of the permanent notices to six zones, the idea being that if you rarely go out of your locality all you have to do is check your zone weekly. the flaw in that is that I have not been adding the Temp notices to those zones. Question: Are the zone repetitions useful and/or should I be adding the Temporary Notices?
Question now about coverage: Would there be interest in an extension of the Service to cover a wedge from say Calais to the Hook of Holland and anything in between those places and us? It is best for me to align the service with specific Admiralty Charts but I suspect it would not add too much extra work. At first glance that would be about 7 extra charts to check on (110, 207, 323, 1606, 1873 and 1874).
Anything else? Do the weekly posts help? Should I carry on with those during the winter?
No promises but I will certainly consider any suggestions.
