Charts are now available from the links on the home page. For the Deben entrance there are 2 charts: from the Harbour Master on the Deben Estuary Pilot link, and from Imray on the East Coast Pilot link. You can also download charts for the Ore and Stone Point from this link. Beware: The latter […]

The channel into Walton Backwaters has now been dredged. You can download the latest chart from here.  Thanks go to the HarbourMaster at Titchmarsh marina for keeping us informed. The usual disclaimers apply- use care and as skipper you are responsible for the safety of your vessel.  The soundings are only accurate for the date […]

Now we are well into the sailing season, don’t forget to check out the Notices to Mariners (N to M) which can be found on the HHA Harwich Haven Authority’s website, under “Library”.

In preparation for the new shipping trade to the Wallasea Wild Coast project, Crouch Harbour Authority, with support and assistance from Crossrail, has carried out out major improvements to the buoyage of the River Crouch approach channels from Whitaker Spit inwards to Burnham Fairway.  There is a printed version in On Watch.  

I have been asked by Nigel Mower, (Chairman of HASSA) to advise you to be on the lookout for large wash from the wind farm support boats. Apparently he was just off the Harwich shelf; when wash from one of these vessels hit him. It was low water springs and he felt that there was […]