Cashin Quay
Sir, —During the Sanders Cup contests in the 1920 and. 1930 period, the craft, in a strong easterly with incoming tide, tacked along Gladstone pier right into the kelp to Gollan’s Bay before making for the Ripa Island buoy. These tactics were used to take advantage of the outgoing stream when the tide was making. Since completion of the new breakwater, in conditions of a strong easterly, one hour before low water in an outgoing tide, there is a strong rip running towards Diamond Harbour. In these conditions, in a sailing craft under 20 feet in length, it is like crossing the Sumner bar and the rip has to be shown the same respect. Similar conditions arise off the buttress between Diamond Harbour and Church Bay, but the water does not seem to have the same trapped effect.—Yours, etc.,
TIDE RIP. September 15, 1965.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30857, 16 September 1965, Page 16
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