HANNs 01/3 is the second in the series of Harbour, Anchorage and Navigation Notes which members of the Cruising Association have received this year. Below are listed some high lights received from members who send in reports from all over the world.

These Notes also include Admiralty notices to Mariners which affect the text of the CA Handbook 8th edition, which covers ports from the Faeroes to Gibraltar and the West Coast of Ireland to the Baltic.

This particular series includes 4 pages covering the Handbook area and 4 for the rest of the world.

Last time we mentioned the silting at Sovereign Harbour, Eastbourne. We understand that the entrance has now been dredged and one of our members has taken soundings indicating 1.3 metres at LAT.

Orford Harbour entrance has changed yet again and the notes include directions for the entry as it is now but those who sail in this area will realise that the entrance is always moving. We hope to keep up to date with these movements.

The Teetotal channel up to Kings Lynn has dried up and the entrance channel here now is the Bull Dog channel.

More members are discovering Kilmore Quay in the South East corner of Ireland which has replaced Dunmore East as the first port of call for many.

Members have sent back extensive reports of ports in the North coast of Spain including in particular Zumaia which becomes important now the Guetaria is no longer open to yachts.

Norway has produced the most voluminous reports as some of our member last year left St Petersburg via the White Sea and North Cape leaving their boats over winter in such places as Narvik. We now have a very considerable number of reports of ports all round the Norwegian coast. In addition out files are now very full of the whole of the Baltic ports.

As usual we have received reports from all over the Mediterranean including Corsica, Sardinia, Malta, Sicily, Italy, the Adriatic, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus and Israel.

South Africa is not a common cruising ground but one of our members has sent in excellent reoprts from East London and Durban. After that he called at St Helena and the Cape Verde Islands.

Two members visited the Galapagos Islands and give us much information on various ways of seeing the wildlife there.

Finally we have a 5 page report from Japan to Alaska via the Aleutian Islands. No cruising guides for this part of the world.

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