Shell Channel Pilot 8th Edition 2017 ISBN 978 184623 700 3

Supplement No.2 May 2019

This supplement contains amendments and corrections sent Erratum in by a number of cruising yachtsmen and women, in addition to those culled from official sources such as Notices IMPORTANT to Mariners. Positions and waypoints The captions for all Tidal stream diagrams for All positions and waypoints are to datum WGS84. They are on pages 147 –9 relate incorrectly to included to help locating place, features and transits. Do HW Dover. This should be corrected in all not rely on them alone for safe navigation. instances to HW Plymouth . Bearings and lights Any bearings are given in degrees True and from seaward. The diagrams themselves are otherwise correct. The characteristics of lights may be changed during the The implications of this are critical and should not lifetime of this book and they should be checked against the latest edition of the UK Admiralty List of Lights. be ignored. Note Where lights have been modified in the text do please Please see following pages remember to alter them on the appropriate plan(s).

This supplement is cumulative and the latest information is Page 27 River Stour entrance plan marked in blue . See amended plan. Page 43 Brighton Depths Reports are in (May 2019) that depths are now even more restricted. One metre draught 2 hours either side of LW is the official version. Page 296 Honfleur Lock access Amend to HW+2 to HW. It is advisable to check with the lock keeper on VHF Ch17 prior to arrival.

Bridge The road bridge now opens at 1530 but no longer at 1930.

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1 TO START POINT III

1 HR BEFORE HW PLYMOUTH HW PLYMOUTH 1 HR AFTER HW PLYMOUTH

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ERRATUM – IMPORTANT The captions for all Tidal stream diagrams for Portland Bill on pages 147–9 relate incorrectly to HW Dover. This should be corrected in all instances to HW Plymouth. The diagrams themselves are otherwise correct. The implications of this are critical and should not be ignored

The seen from the east. The 'wedge of cheese' outline is equally prominent from the west

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148 SHELL CHANNEL PILOT SWANAGE TO START POINT III

2 HRS BEFORE HW PLYMOUTH

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,12 Note that two large mussel farms have been 06 established approximately 3½ and 8 miles SW of Beer ,15 07 Head. They are marked with Fl.Y.5s buoys. The inshore farm is extensive and has six buoys, the corners being lit. PORTLAND BILL TO HOPE’S NOSE The outer has but two lit buoys and no further marks. With the exception of headlands, Channel tidal has no dangers, other than being a notable streams are slacker west of Portland. This is far from the lee shore in the prevailing SW wind. Indeed, apart from a case on the French side, but in Britain, West-country number of well charted off-lying ledges and rocks, the sailors are less bound by its movements than their whole of is more or less clear outside the 10m compatriots further East. contour. In calm weather, a cruise around its shoreline is Hope’s Nose rewarding. Otherwise the large bight is generally crossed This prominent point forms the Northern corner of from Portland to Torquay or Points South and West. Torbay. From the southward, the 32m-high Ore Stone stands out conspicuously as a rather lop-sided cone. A useful landmark 3M East of and 3M West Passage between this and the Lead Stone closer inshore is of . Golden Cap is a conical hill 187m high perfectly safe. However, passing ‘inside’ the Lead Stone which has pronounced yellow cliffs at its summit. With or Thatcher Rock immediately south of the point is not the sun on them, these can be conspicuous from a long recommended. Thatcher is steep-to on its landward side, distance even in hazy weather. but a nasty ledge extends fully halfway towards it from Thatcher Point whose seaward end is unclear to all but Beer Head those with local knowledge. The navigable gap is less This 130m-high headland is the last white cliff on the than 100 yards and any distance saved insignificant. coast before chalk gives way to the red cliffs of . It Note also the unmarked ‘Morris Rogue’ (0.8m) ESE is surprisingly conspicuous when crossing Lyme Bay well of the East Shag which can catch the unwary bound for offshore. Torquay from the east.

Golden Cap from the south Sailing past the Lead Stone off Hope's Nose inside the more conspicuous Ore Stone

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