Sailing in Company since 1928
All mariners are to be advised that annual maintenance to Pont y Ddraig pedestrian bridge will commence on Monday 5th November for a period of up to 5 days, there may be occasions whereby the bridge will be non-operational.
All mariners are advised to contact the Harbour office prior to entering or departing Rhyl Harbour.
From the date of this notice until 20/12/18 the dredger “Little Orme” will be operating within Victoria Dock. The Dock will be closed to visiting vessels for the duration of the dredging operation.
A floating discharge pipe has been installed extending 50m North West from the entrance of Victoria Dock and is marked on the seaward side with a North Cardinal Fl W.
Vessels wishing to enter or exit the Dock must contact the Dock Master at least 24 hours in advance to arrange authorisation.
Mariners are advised to navigate with the upmost caution in this area.
Mariners are advised that this notice hereby cancels Notice 12/2018
David John O’Neill
Caernarfon Harbour Master
All mariners are advised that coordinates of the new Conwy Harbour low water access pontoon are as follows:
53˚17’7”N 003˚49’50”W
53˚17’8”N 003˚49’47”W
53˚17’9”N 003˚49’47”W
53˚17’8”N 003˚49’47”W
An annotated chart and photograph are included for reference purposes only. An official chart correction will be issued by the UK Hydrographic Office.
From the date of this notice until 20/12/18 the dredger “Little Orme” will be operating within Victoria Dock. The Dock will be closed to visiting vessels for the duration of the dredging operation.
A floating discharge pipe has been installed extending 50m North West from the entrance of Victoria Dock and is marked on the seaward side with an unlit yellow special Mark.
Vessels wishing to enter or exit the Dock must contact the Dock Master at least 24 hours in advance to arrange authorisation.
Mariners are advised to navigate with the upmost caution in this area.
David John O’Neill
Caernarfon Harbour Master
This year was yet another fantastic Bart’s Bash event. There are some great shots in this album of most of the boats that took part thanks to Bruce and Vix Kennedy:
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Our Bart’s Bash event will be held on Saturday the 15th of September this year, and the briefing will be on Friday 14th September at 21:00 in the NWCC clubhouse. The race is always well attended and our race has always been one of the top money raisers in the world so lets see if we can keep that up. Sign ups are made on the Barts Bash Website and the link is https://www.bartsbash.com/
All mariners are advised that diving operations will be taking place up the Conwy River, near the Tal y Cafn bridge in position 53° 14.6’N 003° 48.6’W from 31/08/2018 until 10/09/2018. The vessel Jac y Do will be moored on station. Mariners are requested to slow speed when approaching the area and wait for instructions to pass if the alpha flag is on display.
Matthew Forbes
MSc LLB (hons) BSc MNI
Conwy Harbour Master
The Caernarfon harbour master has just published the latest buoy positions. For the latest information and downloadable versions, please visit their website.
We are delighted to announce the release of AnchorBuddy – an app for mobile devices to assist when calculating the depth to anchor and scope to use.
It has been developed by two Club members – Stephen Gorst and Austin Goudge – and is completely free to use. It doesn’t require an Internet connection once it’s downloaded and is available for both iOS and Android (phone and tablet).
The Club even gets a mention in the credits!
Download it from the following links:
The Puffin Island trip was scheduled to take place on Saturday the 31st of March but as the forecast was poor we rescheduled it for Sunday the 1st of April. In contrast to the Saturday the weather on Sunday was dry with light easterly winds but spectacularly cold. I believe there was actually a frost in the marina early in the morning. 2 boats braved the cold leaving Conwy to go on the trip – Myself Lorraine and Austin on Free Will and Trevor and Sue Wilson on Annica. Meanwhile Steve and Yvonne Wade and their family left Caernarfon to rejoin us in Conwy after a winter in Victoria Dock. On Free Will we took it as an opportunity to try out all the equipment. The autohelm initially took us in circles but when we moved the electric dinghy pump out of the bulkhead locker to a locker further away from the autohelms’ compass, order was restored. We then took advantage of the easterly winds and raised the Spinnaker in full view of the CYC boats who were having a race around the bay. Although a bit rusty in our setting up we raised it the right way up and spared our blushes. We then had a good sail all the way to Puffin Island where we met the Bay of Colwyn boats returning to Rhos after a weekend in Menai Bridge.
All in all it was a good trip out and we returned to the mooring closely followed by Steve and Yvonne Wade on Split Decision.
The winning boat with some splendid seal pictures was Split Decision and I’d like to welcome them back to Conwy.
It was a bit disappointing not to see more club boats out but given that it was a very early Easter and many club boats were still ashore it was understandable. Hopefully there will be a bigger turnout for the next event.
Steve Gorst, Sailing Captain