DIRECTIONS TO MASTERS OF VESSELS BOUND TO RIVERTON.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 45, 19 February 1864, Page 7

DIRECTIONS TO MASTERS OF VESSELS BOUND TO RIVERTON.

From the Provincial Government Gazette Nov. 21. The entrance to this port being intricate, a "' stranger should not, under any circumstances,;; attempt to sail in without a pilot, but should, make fast to the mooring buoy painted black, ' wliich is placed in twenty-one feet at low water spring tides with the following bearings : Steep He&d, S.E. by E. ..... , North-west end of Stewart's Island, oh with | Howell' s Point, S. by W. half W. ': The flagstaff on Bailey's Point, W. half N: ; The mooring anchors of this buoy are placed four hundred and fifty feet apart, east and west from each other; on each side ofthe buoy care should be taken in dropping an anchor near by, not to hook the moorings: - On and after the Ist of November, 1863,' be- y tween sunrise and sunset the following signals will be made at the flagstaff, on Bailey's Point, • Viz.: — - .y ■■' ■■■■ p: ■'■'• When a vessel is approaching the harbor a number from Marryat's code indicating in feet . the depth of water on the bar at thei 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 off. . : - ./'. 'A. ' '.' A: Y•' \ Two black balls without the number will A mean that some recent change has taken place 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 get off' may; hold communication with him fay means of Marryat's ; : signals which in this case will be hoisted atthe south yardarm. . .:;:,,;-; The pilot who is M»vided with a boat and j crew of four men will, when it is practicable, -.. . always put off in his. boat on th e, approach", of }a vessel not having the exemption flag flying., • , Tho depth of water ori the bar . is at :the 7 highest tides fourteen feet, and there is Vrarely less than eight feet at high wafer lowest neap > tides.; .. -'~'~y : ", 'AAyy ',-;, ;- J. B. GKEid,y v y y y^ ' "~ * - ' Harbor Hasten yy.