Category: Ships Blog

Morning all and welcome to Wednesday’s Ships Blog. Cold and windy start to the morning, sunrise looking quite forbidding! Out look staying cold and windy over the next few weeks. Wind moving round to the East this morning and blowing around 18 to 20 knots, wind chill 3 degs C! Unusual visitor today in Harwich Harbour is the cable laying ship ‘Grand Canyon’. Harwich Haven Authority have advised us that they will be dredging our approach channel in the next week or so to maintain the depth at 2M below chart datum. Will keep you posted when this takes place. In the yard fishing boat  ‘Jenny’ and sailing yacht ‘Penifold’ have been lifted ashore for winter storage.

Morning all and welcome to Tuesday’s Ships Blog. Weather quite windy, the breeze is blowing around 20 to 25 knots from the South at the moment. Looking further out there does not seem to be any big freeze approaching at the moment. Over the next couple of days the wind will move round to the east bringing colder air from the continent but by the weekend it swings back towards the south and west. Preparations continue afoot for lock closure next week. The lock will close at 0700 Monday the 3rd to allow divers to enter the water clearing the sill and guides for the Stop Logs. The logs are then craned in and the lock pumped out over night ready for the work party’s to start the next day. The lock is then scheduled to re-open on Friday 14th February. In the yard Andy and Craig have brought ashore ‘St Christopher’ a Southerly and ‘Much the Millar’ for the winter. Won’t be long before they all go back in again!

Morning all and welcome to the first Ships Blog of 2014. We hope you managed to survive the storms of the last couple of weeks. Over the break the lock masters kept an eye on all of the boats with regular patrols around the pontoons. A number of fenders were collected that had broken free and have been stored here at the Control Tower. If you think you may have lost one then come and see us. Looks like we have a couple more days of wet and windy weather before some respite over the coming weekend. Temperatures appear to be slowly declining over the coming week as well. Everybody is back at work and the yard gang are continuing with haul outs  and launches. Low water this morning took the tide level below chart datum by 0.34m, probably caused by the recent strong southerly winds. Richard Ireland our duty lock master took the opportunity to scrub one of the outer marker posts and repaint the depth marks which coincide with those in the lock. Happy New Year!

Good afternoon and welcome to the post weekend Ships Blog. Weather cool and clear here in Harwich Harbour. Plenty of sunshine with a 12 knot breeze, temperature about 9 degrees but with wind chill that falls to around 4 or 5 degrees. Forecast is for some rain overnight clearing tomorrow morning. There may also be some frost and fog around in the next few days. Yard crew are quiet today with a couple of lift outs booked. Notices have been posted around the marina to remind everyone that lock closure takes place from Monday 3rd Feb (07.00) until Friday 14th Feb (St Valentines!). Any queries then give the Control Tower a call on 01473 788982.