DIRECTIONS TO MASTERS OF VESSELS BOUND TO RIVERTON.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 8, 25 November 1863, Page 5 (Supplement)

DIRECTIONS TO MASTERS OF VESSELS BOUND TO RIVERTON.

-.. i - * *-? From tho Provincial Govehiment Gazitte Nov. 21. The entrance to this ~porf"being intricate, a stranger should not, under any 'circumstances, attempt to sail in without' a pilot, hutlsliould make fast to the mooring -buoy- painted i black, which is placed in twenty-one. feet at iiow water spring .tides with the follov-ung*: bearings h - ' Steep-Head, S.E. by E.^ iAt • Norfli'r'westjend of Stewart's Island, on with HowelVV:Point, S. by \V>_half W. I .=; ? i The flagstaff on Bailey's Point, W. hi) f N. i The mooringanchors of thisbuoy arefplaced four huMredand fifty feet apart, ea3t_and west from each other ; on eaelf side of the Jiupy care ;should'be taken in dropping an anchor near by, „' not to nook the moorings. » C~ ? ; On and after the Ist of Novembei, 1*63, between sunrise?and sunset tho following will be made at the flagsfaff, on Bailey's Point, viz.:— - V ■ ' y \ * When "a vessel is approaching thb harbor a number from Marryat's code indicating'in fcet"~ the depth of water on the bar at the time, will be hoisted at the north yard arm. ' | A black ball hoisted.above.lhis number will show that the sea is too high on theibar^for the pilot to get off. - ' '* Two black; balls without tbe number will mean that some recent change has' taken place' in the channel or that it.ia dangerous 4 in. the opinion of tiie pilot even Tor a ooastef acquainted -with the plaoe to attempt to run-in." ', Vessels outside the bar or nt tbe mooring buoy, when the pilot cannot get off may hold -communication with hira by means^of Mkrryafs 'signals which- in this case will be hoisted at the ;south yard arm. |- The pilot who is provided with a boat and / 'orew of four men will, when it is -practicable, 'always put.oflFJn huvhbat..oh the~ approach of a vessel not having the exemption flag flying. The depth. of. water- -on-Hhe -bai^ is at the highest tides fourteen >feetjr_iiß-- there is rarely less than eight feet' at high water lowest neap. tides* -•* ._-««-*- s-'rt-w-c J. B. Greig, i Harbor &**&&. . -.- I Harbor Ofßee, Invereargill, 1 24 th October 1863,