Savage Boats sold to Telwater

BRUNSWICK Asia Pacific Group has announced the sale of the Savage brand name and manufacturing assets to Gold Coast-based boat builder Telwater (Quintrex and Stacer) for an undisclosed price.

Brumbys Creek

Slipped out to Brumbys Sunday afternoon hoping for a few rising fish. Westerly breeze and a bit strong. Gave the kayaks a bit of a paddle. Me in the Moken, Hamish in the Synergy 12 and Harriet in the Prowler 13.

When the wind dropped a few fish appeared and I had a couple of missed takes on a Red Tag. Really there for a paddle more than anything and retired after and hour or so. Will be back during the week for an evening.

St Helens Grand Slam

There have been a few whispers around about a St Helens, Georges Bay, fishing competition. I have wanted to do this for a few years, and especially since commercial and recreational netting was stopped here about eight years ago.

The fishing at Georges Bay has improved immensely and now is the time.

So the first St Helens Grand Slam will be held on 24 January. This is St Helens Regatta day and it will be part of the day's events.

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Burns Bay

Work on replacing the old Burns Bay boat ramp is well advanced. The old boat ramp at Burns Bay has been replaced with a new two lane ramp which was opened early November in time for the start of the cray season. The next stage is to build the concrete walkway and the new single lane ramp alongside. The rocks for the breakwater have been placed repairing the storm damage that has occurred over the past few years. A new walkway on the top of the breakwater should be completed next week and the infill between the breakwater and the two lane ramp tidied up shortly after.

Barway

There are two projects underway to improve navigation through Georges Bay Barway. The first is the removal of 200,000 cubic metres of sand that has built up on Blanche Beach behind the rock training wall. The second project is to undertake dredging at Pelican Point which is within Georges Bay about 1000 metres south of the training wall.

An environmental assessment has been made of the impacts of removing the sand. This assessment will shortly be posted on the MAST website. It shows that while there are some impacts, particularly on the hooded plover, an endangered species that nests on the beach, that these impacts can be avoided fairly readily.

Suitable consultants will shortly be asked to bid for the environmental assessment of the dredging of sand at Pelican Point. This assessment is expected to take about three months.

Conditions on the barway remain reasonable with about 3.5 metres of water at high tide. Levels at Pelican Point are more problematic with levels of around 2.5 metres at high tide.

Info from MAST