Boaties urged to get shipshape on rules

[Reel-Job]

Go out any night to the banks and you will always come across someone at the Blinker with no lights on their boat.A accident waiting to happen.

[searaider]

Hay Reel-Job ,
A nice little 12 mile radar sitting on to of the Yalta would over come the problems of boats with no lights .
You install one first & let me know how good they are .

Peter
Searaider 2

[Kerry]

.... Unfortunately, as for the seabed, resources are limited and the Survey vessels will appear to rarely update these details as it is a very long and slow process to sweep the Bay, Oceon or whatever and get around them all with any frequency. The air photos in Brownies when updated can give a little help at times for the more popular anchorage spots to see the sand bar's ....

Aerial photographs are certainly usefull and especially if flown at low tide but for sure only as dated as when they were taken.

Depths etc are not necessarily a slow process these days especially now with laser systems but the cost v application is probably a little out of proportion.

Cheers, Kerry.

[peterbo3]

Qld Transport put out a large number of charts which are laminated. Great for waterproofing but a consequence is that these charts cannot be updated as new Notices to Mariners are published. Paper Admiralty charts purchased from Chart Agents such as Boat Books MUST be updated. This is done by hand & is not cheap. Maybe the sale of Qld Tpt charts be limited to Chart Agents & the charts updated prior to sale. Then lamination upon sale only.
But as stated above, if markers were maintained a little more often then it would be up to the skipper to stay in the channel. Be very careful in Bribie Passage. The markers there are mostly unlit & often wrong as to channel location. Qld Tpt say that they have limited resources & cannot fix everything.
I must use that excuse when they grab me for no EPIRB or not enough PFDs. I am sure I would get a sympathetic hearing.