On this page you will find details of current Notices to Mariners and of Operations off of the East Coast that affect the navigation of small craft in East Coast waters.

Please Note: This list of notices may not be exhaustive, we publish all that we are made aware of by the relevant authorities.

Current Notices to Mariners (NM) and the latest pilotage updates can be found under this link by courtesy of
www.eastcoastpilot.com more >>>

Offshore Wind Farms 

London Array - Thames Estuary

Latest information issued 18th July >>>more  

Outer Gabbard - Felixstowe area

Latest information issued 23rd July   more >>>       Hydrographic    more >>> 
Chart of Farm and shore power route     >>>more   Turbine installation  >>>more

Wash and Lincolnshire area

 Dudgeon Wind Farm - issued July 2009 more >>>

Race Bank development- issued 11th March 2010  more >>>

Inner Dowsing  issued 16th July 2010  more >>>    NTM about lifting operations 16th July 2010 >>>more

Lincs Wind Farm - geophysical survey to commence - issued 5th July 2010 >>>more

Gunfleet Sands Wind Farm

The site is now completed and there will be no further reports from Dong Energy, the coordinators office has closed (14th July). The exclusion zone is now lifted and there is still to be positioned  a green lit buoy on the SW corner of the farm (GFA-WF5) in position 51.42.032N and 01.12.164E

Port Information

Surveys in the Thames Estuary

Long term bathymetric surveys of the swatchways between Shellhaven on the Thames and the Sunk Sand began mid-December. They are expected to continue until 2013. The surveys are being carried out by the MCS Lenie, and her daily position will be announced on Ch 69 by London VTS on its regular estuary broadcast.

Mariners need to be aware of a number of environmental monitoring buoys in the Knock John through Sea Reach area right up to the container terminal development at Shell Haven. All vessels are required to proceed with caution passing the survey vessel and give a wide berth.