HELP WANTED: Will you be kayaking off the coast of Anglesey during August 2023?

Work has started to install the Morlais Tidal Energy Project off the coast of Anglesey. The Project extends offshore between Penrhyn Mawr and North Stack off Holy Island, Anglesey. Turbines suspended from floating platforms will be installed at least 1km offshore (see https://www.morlaisenergy.com/ ). The onshore works commenced in 2022 and will be completed by the end of 2023. Installation of the first floating turbines is anticipated in 2025/6.

There is potential for the turbines to impact kayaking activities in the area. Canoe Wales and the Anglesey Sea Kayak Alliance have been representing the interests of the kayak community in order to minimise negative impacts.

Before any turbines can be installed there needs to be a Navigational Risk Assessment which must be based on marine traffic surveys to represent winter and summer use. For those who provided data earlier this year, thank you.

Sometime during this summer Morlais are carrying out a summer survey of marine traffic.  We have said we would collect independent data to verify and contribute to the description of kayak activity off Anglesey. Quality data will help to keep the Stacks safe for paddling as the Project develops. 

All data will be anonymised and curated before being shared with Morlais. 

For each trip you take anywhere off the Anglesey coast in AUGUST 2023, but particularly between Porth Dafarch and Soldiers point (around the stacks) PLEASE click on the following link to take you to a short questionnaire https://forms.gle/vQJs1kgWJtnYDRk2A

If the link does not work, please email angleseyseakayakers@gmail.com for a WORD copy of the questionnaire.  

If you have a GPS file of your trip that you could share with us, we would be grateful if you could send the GPX file to angleseyseakayakers@gmail.com.

If you have any questions - just drop me a line at the Anglesey Sea Kayak Alliance at angleseyseakayakers@gmail.com and I'll do my best to find you answers. 

THANK YOU, Jenny of Anglesey Sea Kayak Alliance.