Heres the images

stringer said...

any chance of marking danger zones with pins on a googel earth image?

unfortunately I'm not usually checking google earth when I am sailing

not sure if this is possible, but are you able to mark waypoints in the GT11/31's, that in this case would actually be rocks, and have the device start to beep when you get near to the waypoint/rock????

well ive not sailed there yet but i am hoping to soon... can someone put up an image showing the danger zones cos at the moment all i know is there is a rock in that body of water- will be like finding a needle ion a haystack.. in fact just finding the bloody boat ramp was a challenge in itself!

Thanks Elmo that gives us a good idea of where it is, out from the green roofed hootchie. In fact this seems to be where most of the rocks/reef is concentrated, from there up to about 500m out. Be nice to measure how far out Claude's rock is, think it's almost a continuation of that line.

Here's another one from Friday, tide was low, and I was going for my run just before the last pipe, if you stay close to the pipe you cam miss Claude's rock, some of my runs ended up heading straight for it, so my tracks either abort or go either side of it.
So I fairly confident the end of the ruler is where the it is. I had the mouse pointer over that spot, so the coordinates at the bottom are for that rock/reef.



So you can see that light patch where Neb's and hardies impacts are, between there and my mark are rocks at various depths, most are OK at high tide with a 20cm fin when planning. But the one hardie hit is going to be a danger at any tide.

(Edit) just had a close look at the pic, and there's a light spot a bit to the right of my mark, this is probably it, cause where I've marked looks fairly dark, (seaweed).

Bundy (Adam?),

Looks like you sailed right over it.. probably at close to 40.

Maybe the tide was 20-30cm higher then but still it is an area worth avoiding.

I hope you guys are marking it clearly as a no go area.

Spent some time walking around this area on Sunday at a lowish tide ( hence the photo of the rock). There are many rocks in this area spread across an area dozens of metres west to east and several metres north to south.
I believe it is luck that results in missing rocks in this area not just high tide.

If you Mobsters are trying to scare off us Northerners from venturing south to sail Hardies it's working!

Either that or just stick to the Channel (didn't seem to slow Slowie down any when he was there for the presentation!).

hardie said...

Pointman said...

If you Mobsters are trying to scare off us Northerners from venturing south to sail Hardies it's working!

Either that or just stick to the Channel (didn't seem to slow Slowie down any when he was there for the presentation!).

It's pointless having a spot for windsurfers if windsurfers don't come down and use it, However be bloody CAREFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hardie,do you want me to rustle up some pvc pipe to try and mark these rocks? are there sand patches between the rocks? or perhaps concreteing some pipe into some buckets? good idea? bad idea? let me know......

I think pvc pipe in concrete buckets is better than pipe over star pickets, in some cases the warning can be more dangerous than the rock

Snides has a point, that was a rock

dynamite!

That looks very close to Claude's rock/reef

i rekon the pile of broken fins around it will eventually grow to the point where it will break the surface and slowly form in to island!
personally i believe it is a myth that there is a rock there
i think its a bit of propaganda started by the crab munchers to scare away the city hordes!

why dont u swim out there with a sledgehammer
if that dosent work use a hilti drill and from a boat drill a 8 large deep holes into the area surrounding it place explosives around it like a v8 engine block.place underwater mining grade explosives (stolen)"Power Gel into it and light it up while having excess of 12 beers now ur ****ty rock will be spread out over about half a kilkometre

or steal a flag from ur golf course and mark it mabe be easier and u wont get arrested for possesion of explosives in a public place by anti terrorist responce group

not to be a racist but we refer to them as NIGGER HEADS or BOMMIES