DIRECTIONS TO MASTERS OF VESSELS BOUND TO RIVERTON.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 26, 6 January 1864, Page 6 (Supplement)

DIRECTIONS TO MASTERS OF VESSELS BOUND TO RIVERTON.

From the Provincial Government Q-azotta Nwr. 21. b The entrance to this, port beinsr „ in tf irate, a t stranger should not, under any ci^afcmstances £ attempt to sail in without a pilot, Bitt. .should / make fast to tile mooring- buoy painted black, $ which is placed in twenty-one feet At low water s spring tides with the following .bearings.: x -' Steep Head, S.E. by E.- : i North-west end of Stewart's Island, on with* HoweLl's Point, S. by W. hdffW.. - : The flagstaff bajSAJLjeyJ-vPoint, W.. half N". ' ; The mooring aneh«rs'of this buoy, are placed four hundred and fifty feet apart,^ east and- west ■$ from "each other; on each side of thebuov care i should be takeu'in dropping aa anchor near by, | not to hook thfe mdoriDgs.' . '** * \ On and after the Ist of November, ISG3,^ be-*'} 'tween sunrise and sunset tjie following signals „' will be made at the flagstaff, on Bailey's Poin^, " f viz :— • • ' " j When a vessel is approaching the harbor a ? number from Marryat's code indicating in feet 'f the JepLli of water on the bar at'the time, will % be hoisted at the north." yard arm. ~ ' A black ball hoisted above this number will [ show that the sea is too high on the bar for the ■; pilot to get oft". * ". ." < ] Two blnck balls without^ the number will £ mean that soina recent change has taken piace f in the channel or that it is dangerous in the -"$ opinion of the pilot even for a coaster acquainted ', with the place to attempt to run in. • £ Vessels outside the bar or at the mooring ■; buoy, when the pilot cannot r gel off may hold r_ communication with him by means of Marryat's ' signals which in this case will be hoisted at the "; south yard arm. -, The pilot who is provided with a boat and « crew of four men will, when it is praciicable, - always put off in his boat on the appioach of a ? vessel not' having the exemption flag flying. , f The depth of water on the bar is at the ..* highest tides fourteen feet, and there is rarely ? less th,m eight foet at high water lowest neap \ tides. - ' -I J. E. Geeig, I Harbor blaster. Harbor o ßico, Invereargiil, 2 1 th October, 1863. , „",