Haircut said.. I missed the first maybe 15-30 mins tonight. Did the dredging of the southport side channel get discussed?
Just to fill a few of you in, (if you really care at all???) as I attended the Gold Coast Waterways Authority Forum tonight and one of the Windsurfer Wind Warrior Brothers were there and put this question to me, here is my reply to him as follows:-
Hi Haircut, yes it was good to see a few of you guys there tonight for support. (By the way, there did not appear to be any Kite Surfers there other than myself
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No I believe nothing was brought up about the dredging on the Southport Side Channel and as far as I know the Queensland Minister for Transport stated a couple of months ago after the findings of the Survey about the proposed Second Main Channel that there was not sufficient interest in the affirmative for it from the public and partly because a lot of our troops rallied to the cause and submitted to the Survey for the negative, which helped the outcome. Whether it is back on GCWA Agenda, I am not aware of it, unless some one else knows?
There was mention however of tonight's audience enquiring about if any dredging works are to be done or occur in regard to a Sailing Basin. The Board Members sort of danced around their answers a bit on this. They did say however this is in some one else's hands. Now it probably does not take to much of a guess to understand who the uncaring, reckless, short sighted, thoughtless, exploit at all cost and person who calls the shots around here is, that they may be referring to. To my knowledge Tom Tate in cahoots with some other Business People, wants to push for a leg series of the next America's Cup Challenge to be held here on the Gold Coast seeing there is no Fast Cat Races this year as it had been cancelled for some ungiven reasons. Not that there is any specifics on where or how big this Sailing Basin is to be but it is assumed to be held in the Broadwater in Front of the Main Beach Spit Finger and South of Wave Break Island and in Mayor Tom Tate's words when interviewed about it on 9 Gold Coast News a few weeks ago he said something to the effect, if my memory serves me right? "Oh Yeh, we want to try a secure a leg of the America's Cup here (as he was standing at the Spit Finger facing Wave Break Island), It will be great for the Gold Coast and we will just dredge the whole place to cater for it, so no worries there".
The only thing Mayor Tom Tate does not realise yet, that all the Highrise Developments (contrary to the long standing 3 Storey Height Restriction Zone) he is in favour of and promoting for the Main Beach Spit is going to be detrimental to any sailing out on the Western Side of the Spit and South of Wave Break Island due to the effects of severe blocking and disturbing of the predominant available direction winds. I don't think he has given it to much thought. But there again I don't think he gives anything to much thought as his style is just to Steam Roller anything and everything through and suffer or deal with any consequences after.
