Friday, December 29, 2006

Construction On Pause

No work happening on the Breakwater this week. The plan it for the work to recommence on January 2nd. Judging by all the emails going back and forth, the wharf committee doesn't take a Christmas Break. It is interesting how much work needs to go on behind the scenes on a project of this magnitude.

(As always, you can click on any of the photo's for a larger view.)


The obvious slope is to allow for the trucks to back-out
on the breakwater and allow the excavator to work
as well. It is not the finished grade.

The barrier is up - no work on the breakwater until the
new year.

Now I'm glad my boat is out of the water! The 'lumps' in
the fore-ground are the silt booms piled up. Maybe
they're easier to move when their frozen!?!

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Google Maps (Arial View)

I hope everyone is not Turkeyed out!?! Lots of snow in Moncton so it looks pretty plain here in Rothesay. They're madly making snow at Poley Mountain - we saw the lights from the highway on our way through Sussex coming back from a day of shopping in Moncton and sliding in Memeramcook (parents and children, respectively).

Here is a recommended link to Google Maps of the Yacht Club.

http://www.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=h&om=1&z=16&ll=45.39185,-65.999379&spn=0.009117,0.022681

It provides a good view from the sky before the construction of the breakwater started. Do you see your boat? Your mooring? Can anyone tell what Year? Month? Day? this photo was taken? I'd be interested to hear your comments!

Also, please let me know if you have any trouble with the link. It works for me but I acknowledge it is rather long. If you want to leave a comment, click on "comments" at the bottom of each Post. To make it simple, it will send the comment directly through Blogger, rather than by using your email.

Note on your calendar, only 5 days to the Levy.

Sunday, December 24, 2006

Plan View

I've had a request for a view of what we expect the breakwater to look like when it is done. Here is a plan view of the breakwater project. (Not to be used for navigational purposes!)

Breakwater with existing floating dock sections
shown to the right. (Click for larger image)


Breakwater with artist rendering of extended floating
dock sections. Not necessarily to scale or final layout.
(Click for larger image)

Friday, December 22, 2006

Lunch Time Friday


More activity on the breakwater. Photo Credit: Mike Brennan

From Bruce Tennant

Some photo's from Bruce.



Visible Progress

As things start to wind-down (or should that be wind-up) for Christmas we can see continued growth in the Breakwater. As mentioned yesterday, Valley Excavators has received permission to remove the silt boom, by the Department of Fisheries. According to Melanie MacLean, Habitat Assessment Biologist from Fisheries and Oceans Canada Bedford Institute of Oceanography, "Monitoring of suspended sediments has revealed that sediment levels in Kennebecasis Bay have not raised significantly as a result of the work being conducted by the Rothesay Yacht Club." That is good for the environment and good for the project.

According to Gordon Mouland of Fundy Engineering, not having to deal with the silt boom should help make up time that was lost in November due to the unusually high water.


Making progress - view from Rothesay Park Rd.
(click on photo for larger view)

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Winter Solstice

Only 6 months until summer. Winter arrives at 8:22 PM this evening but you would hardly know it. It was bright, calm and warm (0 degrees C) at the club this morning.

They were working on the silt boom this morning - see the motorboat on the right of the breakwater, below. A couple more loads of rock arrived while I was there.


Workboat removing silt boom.



Wait a minute - what's that in the water - a sea dog?



No, it is a body!

Actually it is Lorne Williams from Cores Dive. Cores Dive has the sub-contract to manage the silt boom. Today they were removing it as the is no longer an concern that the material being placed is will not have small particulate. Lorne was pulling the sheet of felt around the breakwater up and securing it to the floats with the yellow poly line so they can move it to shore.


Diver Lorne Williams - a pretty happy guy, considering
he is up to his neck in close-to freezing water!


But don't feel too bad for Lorne - he said he will be going south, with much warmer water, in the near future!


Pulling up anchors and pulling boom to shore.

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Making Ice

Not much change in the breakwater today. But as you can see the river is starting to make Ice.
Ice along the inner harbour. Note that the East side of the wharf
is encapsulate in rock. (click on photo to enlarge)

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

News from Town of Rothesay

Congratulations to all who have been involved, directly and indirectly, in securing the funding from both the Town of Rothesay and RDC (Regional Development Corporation)!

That is $70,000 in the past two weeks! Wow!

The details on the $50,000 from the Town of Rothesay is in the Telegraph Journal today (Dec 19th). An article on the project, with reference to the $20,000 from RDC is in the Telegraph Journal yesterday (Dec 18th).

(Sorry, I don't have the expressed written consent of the paper to republish the article on the Blog. One doesn't want the media mad, does One?!?)
Looking at the work from Rothesay Park Rd.
8:20 AM, Dec 19, 2006

Monday, December 18, 2006

Week of December 11-15, 2006

These are some photo's from Bruce Tennant from last week. Bruce has agreed to photographically document the construction process. Thanks Bruce!




Note the "boom" in the photo's below. I was out in my aluminum boat on Sunday morning (that's another story). Only after a closer inspection did I realize that these were not just something floating on the surface. It is actually it is a huge 'blanket' of felt that is suspended at the surface by the floats, and it extends under water to the bottom. It is resting on the bottom and weighted down by chain. If you are down there sometime, you might notice the water is murkier on the inside of the boom, versus the river itself. So that it why it is called a 'Silt Boom'



By the way, it was beautiful down there Sunday morning. It was -1 Celsius when I left the house at 7:30 AM, and the wind was calm. The water was cold but it is interesting to remember four years ago Odette, Ryan and I were skating on 12 inches or more of ice out here on Dec 25th!

Saturday, December 16, 2006

Taken Saturday Morning

Thanks to Mike Brennan. You can click on the photo to see them in full size.


This photo is looking North along the East side of the
wharf, where the black dock normally spent the summer.
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This view looks down the river towards
Grand Bay (West). This is the face of the
wharf. We are now moving into 'new territory'!

Friday, December 15, 2006

First Posting

As Mike Brennan mentioned on Wednesday, the work has started at the club! I will provide some recent photo's as the work progresses. Here is what it looked like this morning: