Picnic Forty Spent Day On Mudbank
Disaster overtook a picnic party from a Whangarei firm on Sunday. The firm’s Auckland office sent its double-ended auxiliary ketch up to the Town Basin for the occasion. After loading up with members of the staff and their families the ketch set off down the harbour. At Kissing Point, off the end of the Harbour Board reclamation, the boat ran aground an the soft mud forced out from under the reclamation stopbanks. As the tide went out the boat was left high and dry on the mud. The point has caused the downfall of many a visiting craft, as the beacons are misleading. In the rest of the channel a margin of 00ft will place a boat in the centre : of the channel, but at Kissing Point the beacons are high and dry at low ; tide. Any keel boat misled by the beacons j would also be high and dry until the : next tide. ' The vessel was refloated at 7.30 p.m. I I
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Northern Advocate, 15 March 1948, Page 2
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