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Beware inaccurate Navionics charts of Medway

If you use the popular Navionics charts on your chart plotter, iPad, smartphone or web app (see for yourself here) you may notice highly inaccurate depths and spurious features such as non-existent rocks and buoys....

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Exceptional High Tides Warning

Peel Ports have issued a Notice to Mariners regarding the highest tidal predictions of the natural 19 year astronomical cycle. There will be a number of exceptionally high (and low) tides during the period...

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Aground in Style

On the East Coast they say if you don’t go aground you’re not trying hard enough. The crew of this yacht seen in Sharfleet on Saturday evening must have been trying very hard. They...

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Buoyage changes in East Swin

Roger Gaspar’s Crossing the Thames Estuary website points out that if you take the popular route up the East Swin to Essex, via the South Whitaker buoy, there are some major chart corrections to make...

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Rochester Pier closures

Hayley Taylor from Medway Council advises that Rochester Pier will be closed on the following dates for firework displays: Saturday 18th July             6am for 24 hours Friday 24th July                 6am for 24 hours

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Sun Pier open at last!

Hayley Taylor at Medway Council is responsible for Rochester, Sun and Gillingham Piers. She has advised us yesterday that the pontoon at Sun Pier is now fully operational.  Though it should be fairly straight...

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Peel Ports on the case…

Two updates today to Peel Ports Notices to Mariners: No 16: The missing topmark on the new Uplees north cardinal buoy, marking the trawler wreck at Harty, has been replaced. No 19: The large...

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New Deben entrance chartlet at ECP

With East Coast boaters starting to go off cruising, Dick Holness of East Coast Pilot has advised us that there is a new chartlet of the Deben entrance now available to download from the...