PETONE'S BOAT SHELTER
Potono's boat harbour, or "boat shelters," came in for another severe buffeting during the week end. As usual, in the early hours of tho morning following a southerly, a number of peoplo paraded the foreshore oil the lcok-out for driftwood. Amongst the flotsam was tho deckhouse of a launch. A craft which is partly owned by Mr. G. Hoolc, of Lower Hntt, was moored in the shelter on Saturday, and preparations were made to remove it up the Hutt River in view of the southerly. Tile owners, however, then discovered that the preliminary arrangements had delayed them so long that the tide had left them when all was ready, and it was then impossible to take tho launch up the' stream. Accordingly it was moored, but apparently broke from the moorings early on Sunday morning, and was dashed against the wharf piles, where tho hull and deckhouse parted company, the former washing up near the Gear Company's chute, and tho latter going to tho bottom. The launch, which was valued by the owners at about £120, contained a new 8 horse-power .engine, besides four cases of benzine, and other accessories.
;In view of the fact that several lighter craft recently experienced a similar mishap at tho same place, complaint is made about, the effectiveness of the "shelter." About a mile and a half along the beach three yachtstwo "mghteens" and ' one twenty-two-footer—rode gracefully at anchor, through the whole force of the gale; without perceptibly dragging anchor, and the point was raised that the shelter had been, constructed in the wrong place. A local boat-owner states that at this particular spot- tkere is a natural boat-shelter in two sand banks, that break up the big waves. A visit to the "shelter"' yesterday afternoon showed that a portion of the structure that is being vertically "whaled" appeared to offer more protection than the horizontally "whaled" portion. The vertical "whalings" are an experiment, and aro to be continued the full length of the structure.'
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2625, 22 November 1915, Page 9
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334PETONE'S BOAT SHELTER Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2625, 22 November 1915, Page 9
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