Country : UKWick worldport

worldport Introduction
We hope you will find our website useful to familiarise yourself with the worldport and its facilities. If you do require any further information look up the 'Contacts' page and get in touch, and we will be pleased to help.

The Harbour consists of three basins: the Inner and Outer Harbours are the main fishing and leisure berths, and the River Harbour is the commercial area.

All the usual shoreside facilities and services are available, backed up by the town services, retailers, leisure and tourist services. The Harbour Office can advise you on detail.

Location
Wick Harbour is strategically situated on the northeast tip of mainland Scotland.

Approaches
Outer Harbour - South Pier Sector Light flashing Green/White/Red every 3 secs. Leading lights into Outer Basin are two fixed Red lights in line, 20 metres apart, near root end of South Pier, not visible until entrance is opened.

River Harbour - Harbour Bridge DIR.ISO.WRG 4s light. Entrance between North and South River Piers marked by double Red and Green vertical fixed lights.

worldport Closed Signal - A black ball is hoisted by day, or a fixed Green light shown by night, on a prominent mast at South Head.

Harbour Radio
VHF Ch16, or working channel Ch 14 (during office hours.) If no contact, telephone 01955 602030. (24 hours)

worldport Data
The Harbour consists of three basins:

The Inner Harbour is the main fishing and leisure berthing area and gives access to the Slipway owned by the Harbour. The Lifeboat berth is adjacent to the RNLI Station.

The Outer Harbour is used for temporary berthing, fuelling, smaller cargo vessels and leisure berthing on our Marina Phase 1 from May to September.

The River Harbour is the main commercial quay, in regular use, and larger vessels wishing to use this area should consult the local information board or consult the Harbourmaster about shipping movements.

Total quayage = 1366 metres.
Depth alongside-Inner/Outer = -1.71m. CD
River Basin = -5.00m. CD
There is a sandbar outside the River Basin, depth -2.60m CD. This will be dredged, Summer 2007, check back for progress.
Max vessel length = 89m in summer.

Commercial Facilities
No longer in use for fish sales as all white fish landings are consigned directly to clients.

The south-facing area of the roof was covered with photovoltaic panels in 2004, and is now generating electricity (max 22 Kw) which is fed into the local grid.

Plans are being formulated to develop this building with the Marina Phase 2 to enhance visitor facilities, ie., larger toilets and showers, laundry, rest room and perhaps new Harbour Offices.

0044-1955 602030 (24hrs)
0044-1955 605936