GuernseyGuernsey CruisingCruising GuideGuide Port and Customs Control Guernsey Cruising Guide, Port and Customs Control 2015 Welcome Welcome to the Guernsey Cruising Guide, a brand new defi nitive guide for seafarers in the Bailiwick of Guernsey. This handy new booklet is “ aimed at everyone who enjoys the cruising waters around Guernsey and provides information on tides, approaches and other important safety notes. We would like everyone to enjoy our marinas and its facilities so we have included a few helpful hints plus a full list of the Marine Traders. There is a separate section at the back of this guide, on page 37, particularly aimed at visitors to the Bailiwick. Important customs information for all visiting crew is on page 39. www.guernseyharbours.gov.gg Sally Diamond (Photo), Leisure Manager. ” Guernsey Harbours. % Commission 0 Foreign Exchange Visit us at the Guernsey Information Centre t Tous nos prix sont nets tNous sommes situes au Bureau D’Information Touristique tGebuhrenfreier Geldwechsel tSie finden uns im Touristen Informations Zentrum Order and pay online at www.batif.gg or call 01481 723069 Contents 1 WELCOME For our visiting yachtsmen: 5 PRE-SEASON CHECKLIST 36 St Peter Port Map 6-7 BE SAFE AT SEA 9-11 2015 TIDE TABLES 37 Welcome to Guernsey 13 GUERNSEY APPROACHES 44 Island Map 15 USEFUL INFORMATION 47 St Peter Port 16-17 GUERNSEY MARINAS CODE OF PRACTICE 49 2015 Events 19 BEAUFORT SCALE 20-21 SPEED LIMITS 50 Useful Information 22 WEATHER AND SHIPPING 51 The Bailiwick 23 VHF RADIOS 24 CLUBS AND SOCIETIES POUR NOS VISITEURS PLAISANCIERS FRANÇAIS: 26-30 GUERNSEY MARINE TRADERS ASSOCIATION 55 BIENVENUE À GUERNESEY! 35 SILL DEPTHS 61 INFORMATIONS PRATIQUES 39 PORT CONTROL 63 THE BAILIWICK © COAST MEDIA LIMITED. 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Excludes December. See in-store for details. Pre-season checklist DO: through-hull fi ttings. If they’re not made of real bronze, they can degrade. Check for free 1) Check your engine and mechanical movement, and make sure they’re absolutely equipment. secure. It’s worth checking, if you still have 2) Check all emergency and lifesaving the paperwork, whether they are made of equipment, from harnesses to VHF. Are the real bronze or a cheaper material, which batteries on your EPIRBs and personal locator might fail. beacons in date? Have your lifejackets and 7) Check your freshwater system. If it wasn’t life rafts been serviced? drained at the end of last season, pipework 3) Check your rigging: might have suffered. Standing rigging: If it’s more than 10 years old, 8) Replace your anodes, even if they don’t look your insurance company may not cover it and worn. Depletion can take place out of sight. it might need to be replaced. Have it surveyed Boats left afl oat in a marina can suffer quite and be secure in the knowledge that it won’t rapid deterioration of metal fi ttings let you down. and anodes. Running rigging: Check for wear and chafe, 9) Check the anchor and cable, as these are particularly around wire-to-rope joints and often forgotten and sit in a nasty, damp Talurit splices. locker. If you don’t use your anchor often, the 4) Do you have an outboard? If you don’t use it cable could be rusting away. Revitalise your very often, have it serviced. If you left it down depth markers, whether that’s repainting in the water through the winter it can easily them on to the chain, adding new cable ties, foul up from the inside. Fuel can deteriorate if or refreshing your own method of marking the outboard is not used often. the cable. 5) Check fl ares and make sure they’re in date. DON’T: Think about buying one fl are every year. You 10) Don’t think you’re as prepared as you were will soon have a supply of working fl ares at the end of last season. Things have a habit without having the expense of having to of not working. Taking the time to do these replace all your fl ares at once. checks now could mean you don’t become a 6) Check the condition of seacocks and other statistic this season. Guernsey Cruising Guide, Port and Customs Control 2015 05 Be safe at sea We’ve put together some useful information A torch along with spare batteries and a fi re extinguisher to help you safeguard yourself, your boat, and suitable for your type of boat, should also be considered essential safety items. any passengers before and during any trip. You should carry a detailed chart for the areas you are Safety equipment While it is certainly possible that travelling in. Even if you do not understand everything you may never be in need of Safety Equipment, you will on the chart, being able to work out your position and be thankful that you do in an emergency situation. surrounding dangers is important. Essentials Life jackets should not be considered an Spare rope is something that can be useful in any optional extra in any situation. However, you should situation. A couple of decent lengths can act as anything ensure that it is of the correct size for your body weight, from additional mooring lines, a tow line, a throwable line fi tted properly and securely (preferably with a crotch strap to a man-over-board or repairs to damage. or harness to prevent it riding over your head), and that it Advisable It is also advisable to have the following is regularly serviced to ensure it performs as expected. safety equipment stored on board. This will almost It is also advised to have a throwable fl otation device, certainly be useful in aiding a quick and safe resolution to possibly attached to a long length of rope. This will greatly any dangerous situations. assist anyone who has fallen overboard. All passengers GPS - this provides a backup for navigation. Be aware and crew should be aware of where the life jackets though that it should not replace your charts, but act as are and how to operate them in the event they do not additional confi rmation of your location. automatically infl ate. Flares - nothing will attract help faster and clearer than a While a mobile phone can be used to contact emergency fl are. Depending on how far you intend to travel from land services, a VHF radio is a far better device to ensure it is advisable to at least carry hand-held fl ares and also prompt assistance. A VHF radio is not as dependent on parachute fl ares. They should be stored in a watertight additional masts and antennas, and has a much greater container and regularly checked that they are not out of range. It is also much easier to pinpoint the source, date. Any out of date fl ares can be disposed of by handing meaning the emergency services will know exactly them over to the police. where you are. The added benefi t is that any calls made Life Raft - in the event of an onboard fi re or if taking on on Channel 16 can also be responded to by nearby water, you have the assurance that you and your crew will boats that will quite likely be able to assist before the be safe until assistance arrives.