QUEEN'S HARBOUR MASTER PORTSMOUTH

LOCAL NOTICE TO MARINERS

No 23/02

Reissue 23/02 Regulations Concerning Windsurfing

1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that in the interests of the safety of life and the safe navigation of vessels BOARD SAILING (WIND SURFING) is hereby PROHIBITED in the following areas:
   a.Portsmouth Harbour Approach Channel. - The buoyed channel extending from a line joining Outer Spit Buoy and Horse Sand Buoy at its southerly limit to a line joining the easternmost point of Fort Blockhouse and the Round Tower (Old Portsmouth) at the Harbour entrance. It is bounded on either side by the channel buoys marking the limits of the dredged channel.
   b.Portsmouth Harbour Main Navigable Channels. - All the waters of the Harbour south of a line joining the northern end of Shell Pierhead and the south-west corner of Whale Island and to the south of Whale Island Bridge, but excluding the waters above Haslar Bridge and Forton Bridge.
   c.Fareham Lake. - In the navigable channel of Fareham Lake from the limits defined in paragraph b above northward to latitude 5049’ North and bounded to the east and west by the Drying Line as defined on current Admiralty Charts.

Fri 16th Nov 2007 Semaphore Tower HM Naval Base, Portsmouth.

S O Hopper Commander Royal Navy Queen's Harbour Master