Category: Peel Ports

London – New Years Fireworks

We have been asked to pass on the following message:

“Can we please advise anyone thinking of taking their yacht or motorboat up the Thames to watch the London New Year Fireworks please make sure that you look at PLA Notice To Mariners 76-24 and register your intentions with Police as per NTM instructions”

Notice to Mariners link here

Notice to Mariners

Peel Ports

Full list Here

NtoM 062 – 2024
The Swale – Queenborough Harbour
Concrete Lighter – Sunken Vessel

NtoM 063 – 2024 River Medway – Saltpan Reach Grain LNG Jetty 10 – Diving Operations

No. 61 – 2024
Sheerness Harbour – North Kent Light Buoy
Out of Charted Position

PLA

Upper Pool – Vessel Licence Requirement & Enforcement Area for New Year’s Celebrations | Port of London Authority

Personal Water Craft – Queenborough and Swale


As you will have all seen from the recent posts on Facebook there have been
some serious incidents in and around Queenborough and in the Swale Estuary
involving Personal Water Craft (PWC) which has resulted in not only the
Harbour Patrols being launched but also the RNLI lifeboat and Helicopter.

Unfortunately, it is a small group of PWC owners that are giving PWC owners
in the area an unnecessarily bad reputation. The MSBA has agreed to work
with Kent Police, Swale Borough Council, Queenborough Harbour Trust and Peel Ports to see what actions can be taken to reduce and ideally reduce and
ideally extinguish completely the number of incidents that are occurring.

In this respect can we please ask members who witness any incidents in the
Queenborough area or in the Swale to report them to Kent Police using the
following portal.
https://kep.uk.evidence.com/axon/community-request/public/queenborough

Please provide as much information as possible, because the more information
that is provided with each report the more chance Kent Police have of
identifying those that are driving the bad reputation.

Peter Norris, Fellow ABYA
Chairman
Medway and Swale Boating Association

River Medway – Oil Spills

As members are aware there have been a couple oil spills spotted on the surface of the River Medway between Gillingham and Chatham Marinas. Unfortunately, when Peel Ports have despatched the appropriately equipped vessel to investigate the surface-based oil slicks have disappeared.

Can we please ask that if anyone spots an oil spillage that you email the information, and ideally any photos, directly to the Peel Ports Operations Team or notify Peel Ports via Channel 74 .

If you can also forward details including date, time and location of the incident and any photos to secretary@msba.org.uk we will start to maintain a log to see if there are any patterns to these incidents.

The MSBA would like to thank all river users you for your assistance. 

Any questions please let me know.  Thank you 

Kind regards

Peter Norris, Fellow ABYA

Chairman

Medway and Swale Boating Association

 E: chairman@msba.org.uk   W: www.msba.org.uk