Captain – depth check please?

And wouldn’t you know – the depth sounder says “Sir only 2m beneath the hull”

Local authorities have decided to ensure the situation stays that way.

Yes they have employed a dredge to ensure

local yachties and foe will be ok.

In many cases where a channel needs to be “re-explored & re-developed”

its normal practice that a suction type dredge would be employed.

But for reasons I aren’t quite clear about now

– maybe it had something to do with rock / stone content or

so – the authorities choice at first had me wondering?

It has an interesting propulsion system on two long outboard motor like stalks at the rear of the ship.

The barge then transits out through The Cut and appears to go

about half way out in Tasman Bay where it obviously “drops its load”…..

then returns to do it all over again.