Wind farms off Dutch Coast

[johnphilip]

Last year returning from Vlissingen to Harwich we found the North going tide made it difficult to weather a wind farm under construction off the Dutch coast. We were called by a guard boat and we had to tack South to keep outside a marker buoy well south of the turbines. Unfortunately my plotter had run out of memory and so I no longer have the position (before I am berated I had been marking a track on our Yeoman, but once you move onto another chart this is lost). Is there a web based source of information for the position of wind farms?

 

[tillergirl]

Try here http://www.eastcoastsailing.co.uk/windfarms.html

 

[sailorman]

Last year returning from Vlissingen to Harwich we found the North going tide made it difficult to weather a wind farm under construction off the Dutch coast. We were called by a guard boat and we had to tack South to keep outside a marker buoy well south of the turbines. Unfortunately my plotter had run out of memory and so I no longer have the position (before I am berated I had been marking a track on our Yeoman, but once you move onto another chart this is lost). Is there a web based source of information for the position of wind farms?

Thornton Bank perhaps

 

[MoodySabre]

Here is a list that includes the Belgian ones - they only give one lat and long for co-ordinates which is not very helpful. Thornon Bank and Belwind are quite close.

 

[westhinder]

I have found this chart with all the projects. Not all of them have started building yet.
http://www.mumm.ac.be/NL/Tools/viewimage.php?Pic=Atlas2007/WindmillsCurrent_large_NL.gif

 

[dansar]

You may find this link of use

http://www.4coffshore.com/offshorewind/


dansar

 

[johnphilip]

Thanks

Thanks for these suggestions, but it does seem rather a difficult thing to access positions for passage planning. Once at sea they are socking great blots on the landscape and easy to avoid. On the passage in question the tide was taking us well North of our rhumb line course but we correctly anticipated Southerly set once the tide turned to put us back on course to somewhere near South Galloper. Having to tack into the tide to get around the exclusion zone probably added half on hour to our passage. Had I anticipated the restriction I would have hardened onto the wind earlier to avoid this diversion.