North Carr Light Vessel

Contact the Maritime Volunteer Service, MVS Tay,

Bob Richmond - 01382 542516 mobile - 07554 453535

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MVS Tay gratefully acknowledges the support and assistance of - The Port of Dundee (Forth Ports), Mr. Clive McKeag, Awards for All Scotland, The D.C. Thomson Charitable Trust, H.M. Revenue and Customs The Bell's Nautical Trust, The Tay Charitable Trust, The St. Katharine's Fund, The Robertson Trust,  The Alexander Moncur Trust,  The Mathew Trust,

MVS Tay's recent activities, events, sailings, news etc.

Update 21st Feb 2006

Coming alongside in Badger during boathandling training on Sunday 19th

North Carr from Badger during another round of the dock doing boathandling practise

Update 12th Feb 2006

The history of the "North Carr" in 15 minutes - MVS member Mark McGowan gives an impromptu lesson in maritime history to a passing group of walkers.

Jeff Lonsdale cleans North Carr's hull prior to her repainting - against a backdrop of the morning mist so prevelant in the Tay at this time of year.

Scott Bryson ex RN investigates the second of North Carr's engines to be considered for renovation. The first one (extreme right) was running when this photograph was taken.

Efforts continued on board North Carr and Badger today which included work on the radio room, Badger's "Tannoy", North Carr's engine room. Ongoing restoration work  continued on North Carr as well showing guests around the vessel.

This link from Alan Nicholson should be compulsory for anyone going to the water- http://www.rnliseasafety.org.uk/upload/seasafety/e-learning/nav.htm

This link from Scott Bryson is a good website for learning knots - http://www.tollesburysc.co.uk/Knots/Knots_gallery.htm

Also from Scott for Powerboat Level 2 - http://www.powerboat-training.co.uk/quiz/power1/index2.html

For an illustrated page of ships lights and signs try - Rules of the Road In Internet Explorer the "answers" will appear when you place your mouse pointer over the image (This won't happen in Opera or Mozilla Firefox)

These surface weather charts can be animated to illustrate the progression of fronts, troughs etc. over the next 84 hours (At 12 hour intervals) - http://www.met-office.gov.uk/weather/charts/index.html

The links above, as well as an expanded section on these aerial views incorporating the latest merged satellite images of the Tay Estuary will become permanent additions to the website as our on-line training section is developed over the next few months. This is intended to assist all our members who are actively involved in training courses now and in the future. Suggestions welcome.

These aerial photos of the Tay can be enlarged by clicking on the image -