Paragraph 10 Navigation in the Harbour Entrance and Small Boat Channel
Small boats flying official flags or discs which are pilot boats, police launches, HM Customs and Excise craft, Her Majesty’s vessels or Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service craft, and tugs engaged in towing operations or escorting a vessel under instruction from a pilot, may use the approach channel and the main navigable channels of the Harbour when the exercise of their duties requires it.
Subject to paragraph (1), small boats must:
use the designated Small Boat Channel when entering or leaving the Harbour;
if fitted with an engine, use it when in the Small Boat Channel and when crossing between Ballast and Gunwharf Quays or the Town Camber;
not loiter in the Small Boat Channel;
obey any directions in respect of traffic separation which the Queen’s Harbour Master may from time to time issue by local or general notice to mariners in respect of the entrance to the Swashway and the Inner Swashway; and
not, without the permission of the Queen’s Harbour Master, cross the harbour between Ballast and Gunwharf Quays or the Town Camber.