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WEYMOUTH HARBOUR NOTICES TO MARINERS CLICK HERE
SHALLOW WATER AT WEYMOUTH TOWN BRIDGE WAITING PONTOON CLICK HERE
SEA SURVIVAL / SEA SAFETY COURSES FOR 2008
In conjunction with Steve Holmes, the Lifeboat Sea Safety Officer for Weymouth, Portland & West Bay, the Club has arranged the following Safety Courses:-
Sea Survival Course
Saturday 22nd March (Easter Saturday)
Cost £95 per person.
Minimum 5 - Maximum 15 persons.
RDYC Sea Safety Day
Saturday 7th June
This will take the format of a ‘man-overboard’ seminar with practical demonstrations
Outline timetable:
1000-1230 Discussion in the Club.
1230-1330 Break for snack lunch.
1330-1700 On the water practical in the Bay.
Cost about £ 10-15 per person to cover a snack lunch and fuel for a safety rib.
If you wish to attend either of these courses please either:
Add your name to the list posted on the Club notice board
or phone Gareth Peaston on 01202 874606 or 07779 467350
SHALLOW WATER AT WEYMOUTH TOWN BRIDGE WAITING PONTOON
Message from Gareth Peaston (Commodore)
Club members and others have recently reported grounding in the area of the Weymouth Town Bridge waiting pontoon. I met today (29.02.08) with our newly appointed Harbour-master Commander Bill Chambers and reported the problem. Commander Chambers was kind enough to show me his latest hydrographic survey which indeed did show depths as low as 1.5 metres above datum in the area of the waiting pontoon. I advised that the harbour has many yachts with drafts deeper than this regularly transiting the bridge and who would normally expect to use the waiting pontoon.
Commander Chambers noted the above and advised that a dredger was expected in April to dredge a shallow patch (for commercial shipping) in the harbour entrance and that he see if he could arrange for the waiting pontoon area to be dredged at the same time.
I also reported a complaint that a Commercial Fishing vessel had been berthed on the waiting pontoon for a number of weeks considerably reducing the area available to those awaiting a bridge transit.
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