Eureka (USEKA)

Eureka is the principal town in the Humboldt Bay area and is located 6km N of the harbour entrance. The main commodities exported from Eureka are forest products handled from 5 active berths, shipped to the orient, northern Europe and various ports in the Mediterranean.

Summer.

Eureka is located within Humboldt Bay in northern California.

LOA 216m, beam 32.26m, draught 10.6m, 49,999DWT.

Approx 1,500,000t of cargo handled annually.

Available in open sea 1.8nm W of the harbour. The recommended anchorage for vessels is 1nm SW of the sea buoy in 27m of water. Anchorage inside the bay is restricted depending on weather conditions and on vessel length and draught.

The project depths for Humboldt Bay include, Bar Channel 14.6m, Entrance Channel 14.6m, North Bay Channel 11.6m, Eureka Channel - Outer Reach 11.6m, Eureka Channel - Inner Reach 7.9m, Samoa Channel and Turning Basin 11.6m, Fields Landing Channel and Turning Basin 7.9m. Note: Dredging is carried out regularly to maintain depths over the bar, however for the latest controlling depths the port authorities should be contacted.

BA 4916, 2531. Admiralty Pilot NP8, NP286(5).

A USCG Station situated on the inner side of North Spit, 0.5nm within the entrance. A Coast Guard Air Station is at McKinleyville about 7nm N of the head of Arcata Bay.

1026.

Compulsory for foreign flag vessels. Arrangements for pilots are usually made by the agent or by telephone, also by Westfall Stevedore Co on VHF Ch 10, by fax and telegraph. Vessels should send ETA, draught and operational status of the engines within 24 hours and 4 hours of arrival. Pilots board vessels between 0.5-1nm W of Humboldt Bay Entrance Lightbuoy, or 1.5nm W of Humboldt Bay Entrance Jetties from a tug with a black hull and a red and white deckhouse. Pilots require 24 hours notice of arrival.

Humboldt Bay PORTS: The port uses the Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System, which integrates real-time environmental observations, forecasts and other geospatial information. It measures and disseminates observations and predictions of water levels, currents, salinity, and meteorological parameters (e.g., winds, atmospheric pressure, air and water temperatures) that mariners need to navigate safely. Leading lights in line bearing 326.5°, are exhibited at elevations of 6.1-7.6m, from pile structures with white square and diamond shaped daymarks respectively, each with an orange strip to mark Field Landing Channel.

Movement restrictions: In summer months vessels usually enter on both ingoing and outgoing tides; in winter entry is usually made on the first or last of the ingoing tide, or the first of the outgoing tide. Departure is made on the ingoing tide only, regardless of the time of year. Deep draught vessels enter, or depart, on the last of the ingoing tide from November to the end of March; night movements depend on conditions on the bar before dark. Vertical Clearance: A fixed bridge crosses Humboldt Bay from the N side of Eureka to a point just N of Samoa, on the Samoa Peninsula (1.25nm NW). Clearances of the fixed spans are 12.2m from Eureka to Woodley Island; then 9.1m to Indian Island; then 13.7m to Samoa Peninsula. Submarine cables and pipelines are laid in many places throughout the bay. Pipelines and cables additional to those charted may exist and may not have been buried, or may have become exposed. Extreme caution should be exercised when operating in depths of water comparable to the draught of the vessel.

Range 1.4m. Mean spring range about 2.2m; mean neap range about 1.0m. Tidal streams follow the general line of the channels. In the main channel, average rate is less than 2kts, and maximum rate does not exceed 3kts. Between the entrance jetties, average rate is approx 2kts, and maximum rate about 4kts, although this may reach 5.5kts in storm conditions .

Tugboat service is provided by Crowley Maritime Services, Knutson Towboat Co., Brusco Tug & Barge and Mark's Tugboat Co.

Prevailing winds: NW'ly.

EUREKA, CALIFORNIA 40°48.28'N 124°10.56'W UNCTAD LOCODE: US EKA For details see: HUMBOLDT BAY PILOT REQUIREMENTS ________________________________________________________________________________ ___________

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VHF: Ch 16. Pilot Office and Vessel Ch 16; 13, 18A, 77. Stevedores Ch 10.

Immigration: For crew not to be detained onboard, each crew member must have a visa in their passport or Seaman's Book.

Please see country information for details of documentation requirements.

ETA should be given 24 and 4 hours before arrival.

Coastguard Vessel Inspection: Please see country information.

No action initiated unless there is illness onboard. Ship Sanitation Control Certificates: Please see country information. Unless otherwise directed, immigration and agricultural quarantine officials are normally boarded by the relevant officials on arrival at their berths.