Notices to Mariners Week 4

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Biggish week this week

Permanent

1. New Admiralty charts to be published - full chart of the River Thames, Margaret Ness to Tower Bridge and the Leisure Folio SC5606 - Thames Estuary and Ramsgate to Tower Bridge;
2. Change of name to the two Wisbech buoys in the Wash to W1 and W2 (obviously did not have room for the full names when they came to paint them!:D);
3. Some reductions in depths in the Barrow Deep which are worth noting in you use that part. Reductions on the south side of the Barrow Sands, the North Knob by the Barrow No 10 PHM and Knob Gat;
4. Confirmation of the removal of the fog warning on the Brake buoy in the Gull Stream south of Ramsgate;
5. Small craft mooring legend added in Gallions Reach in the River Thames;
6. Off Holland - the Bollen Van Goeree is no longer foul :) Someone must have picked up the anchor.
7. Holland - increase of depth over a wreck in the Westerschelde;
8. Holland - revision to buoyage in the Schaar van Spijkerplaat (rolls off the tongue doesn't it) part of the Westerschelde;

Temporary

9. In the Medway, temporary removal of the south cardinal buoys off the pontoon off Kingsnorth Power Station;
10. In the Medway Approach channel, announcement of dredging work;
11. Details of another 'cable pull' in the East Swale;
12. Update on the London Array work. The first turbines arrive this week some of which are going in adjacent to Foulger's Gat.

That's it.:)
 
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