This morning Tom Tate unveiled the 'Plan B' cruise ship terminal location, 1/2 a nautical mile jetty extending out to sea from Phillip park.

Some Gold Coast kites including myself enjoy doing down winders too or from the spit because there are only 1 or 2 sets of flags over a 6km stretch.

So if the proposal gets up looks like we will be doing a long tack out to sea (which may provide a cool piece of scenery kiting near a cruise ship) or alternately some mad dog may balls up and boost over the thing stir up a media controversy and cause the authorities to have a hissy fit.

Now if it was China, the Cruise-Ship harbour would already be in place.

But it's the Goldie so there's no rush, right ?

The Spit as shown seems to be the only option.

If you can imagine ...

just draw a line between the pier in the foreground,

and the fantasy pier in the background.

There you go, instant harbour.

lol.

wayne22 said..
Yeah bring it on.wanna jump over it.wonder what dknazzer has to say bout it.

Hopefully it might kill a bit of the the wind chop at the Neck when it blows NE.
Can only be a good thing.

I'd like to see them try to park a cruise ship in 4m+ swell and 25kt+ winds

Tom Tate's a dick

I'm just glad it's out of the Broadwater but if it was built now how would it go this weekend ?

25kn S.E with 3.6m swell on a 16 sec wave period it will be breaking over the top of it....

wayne22 said...
Build it .i need a job .been on the dole since i started kiting 4 yrs ago.10 hours a week will do me fine only on the windless days though.

Sorry mate.. Self interest groups will come up with some unsubstantiated reason why this will damage the environment or cause issues and you'll have go hungry..

They'll build a bigger better version in Indo and they'll get the jobs. You've probably heard this before right?

Kite low... top speed.... weave the needle....

Go UNDER the pier.

I dare you.

shouldn't this be in the qld section where no-one gives a toss ?

craggers said..
Kite low... top speed.... weave the needle....

Go UNDER the pier.

I dare you.

The idea is a catastrophic, it will be a tragedy and destroy the ocean and northern Gold Coast beaches...hopefully it doesn't go ahead!

All good Piros no one really gives a toss