News

Cabot Cruising Club boats will again this year take part in the Christmas Illuminated Boat Parade around the Floating Harbour.

‘Glanville Geospatial Services’ and ‘Unmanned Service Solutions – Unmanned Surface Vessels’ are carrying out a ‘LIDAR’’ and ‘Multibeam’ survey of Bristol Harbour using an unmanned vessel called the ’Inception’, loaded with survey and GPS equipment.

Councillor Mark Wright comments on the passing of the Mayor’s Clean Air plan at the same Cabinet meeting as the Cumberland Basin plans.

Martyn Green, resident of the General, is collecting funds to install an emergency external defibrillator (AED) to be accessible if anyone close to Bathurst Basin has a cardiac arrest.

There are three Bathurst Basin bridges connecting Spike Island to the ‘mainland’ of Bristol and all three feature in a challenging walk designed around Bristol’s bridges.

Bristol City Council is currently assessing the condition of the harbour walls. The work involves surveys of the walls using scanning technology mounted on a vessel and from the opposite bank.

Testing water quality levels in Bathurst Basin started in 1994 but was discontinued in October 2012. They have been resumed following a freedom of information enquiry.

Bathurst Basin’s own Michelin-star restaurant, Casamia on Lower Guinea Street, has been placed ninth of all UK restaurants in the most recent Good Food Guide 2020.

The Bristol Open Doors festival, produced by the Architecture Centre, will be held from 13th to 15th September 2019. The festival gives citizens the keys to the city with hands-on workshops, talks and expert-led tours.

After a three-month re-fit with a £1m brand new hull, the Thekla has returned to her familiar mooring opposite the entrance to Bathurst Basin.

In Bathurst Basin the homeless have sought shelter under the road bridge to the west of the Basin. Homelessness has many causes but those sleeping rough all need help.

Work continues on the opening mechanism of the swing bridge leading into Trinn Mills and Bathurst Parade.

Cabot Cruising Cub is reinstating electrical supplies for boats moored along Bathurst Parade since the accidental damage to the underwater cables in the Basin caused by the recent dredging.

Cabot Cruising Club member Don Norris rescued a man a man who had fallen into the water in Bathurst Basin.

Graffiti problem sort after John Bakes raised concerns with Bristol City Council .

Butcombe Brewing Company is seeking planning permission to make internal and external alterations to the Grade II listed Ostrich Inn.

On Saturday 31st August, M Shed and Bristol Women’s Voice are celebrating Bristol’s Women in Trade.

A second planning application has been lodged by Dr and Mrs Hugh Pratt for the ‘reinstatement of a historic landing stage for use associated with Marchioness site’

5 in a Hat Theatre Company and Atomic Rhubarb from Weston-Super-Mare are bringing back their zany comedy by popular request.

Harbour Master staff visit Bathurst Basin weekly and check that life rings and ropes are visible, properly secured and in good order.