NtM - PORTLAND

[lenseman]

Seeing as I used to work for the old firm.

9/2013 D5 Portland & E. Shambles


NOTICE TO MARINERS

No.9/13 D5

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SOUTH COAST OF ENGLAND

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Date : On or about 21st March, 2013.


1. Station : Portland Bill Lighthouse (All Vol.A 0294).

Position : Latitude 50° 30’.848N., Longitude 002° 27’.384W.

Amendment : Arc of coverage of Fixed Red Sector light to be increased to 26° (265° - 291°).

Characteristics otherwise remain unaltered.


2. Station : E. Shambles Lighted Buoy.

Position : Latitude 50° 30’.785N., Longitude 002° 20’.079W.

Amendment : To be moved north to Latitude 50° 31’.260N., Longitude 002° 20’.080W.


http://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/mariner_info/notice_to_mariners/d/21022013.html




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[LadyInBed]

Does this mean that the Shambles bank is eroding away?

 

[lenseman]

Does this mean that the Shambles bank is eroding away?

Eroding away, some type of undersea drift, I don't know but obviously, 'The Elders' have surveyed the area and have decided to relocate the marks.



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[Seajet]

Lenseman,

any info' about Portland Bill area is gratefully received; the place has put the willies up me since I was a boy, the UK's version of Cape Horn and what with the tides and lobster pots, best avoided by the 5 miles off method !

 

[lenseman]

Lenseman,

any info' about Portland Bill area is gratefully received; the place has put the willies up me since I was a boy, the UK's version of Cape Horn and what with the tides and lobster pots, best avoided by the 5 miles off method !

WIMP!!! Portland Bill is easy especially in a storm with wind on tide, take a look here and you will see.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiiK0fyIyDA



ps: tongue in cheek.
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[john_morris_uk]

WIMP!!! Portland Bill is easy especially in a storm with wind on tide, take a look here and you will see.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiiK0fyIyDA



ps: tongue in cheek.
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The trouble with that video is that it doesn't show the really calm inshore passage that's just out of sight under the lighthouse....

Actually I have been round Portland many times and 9 times out of 10 have taken the inshore passage - very very close to the rocks. Not in those conditions though...

 

[Seajet]

WIMP!!! Portland Bill is easy especially in a storm with wind on tide, take a look here and you will see.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiiK0fyIyDA



ps: tongue in cheek.
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Wimp, that's me then !

Didn't they film ' The Cruel Sea ' there as they coulldn't find anywhere else rough enough to pitch a corvette / frigate halfway out of the water ?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoQOyhB1ppk

John Morris, watch out for the lobster pots towed under by the tide in the inshore passage !