Re: Re: Cork Harbour

@samuel j wrote:

I take your point that if fog or heavy rain then one cannot see landmarks for using transits etc. but in dense fog or zero vis. commercial traffic movements will be halted until such time as the Pilot and Port Operations
are both happy with vis. Does mean vessels remaining at anchor off Spike or outside Roches Point.
Constant checks are made of vis of all areas, approaches, lower harbour, lough mahon …
I guarantee you any professional seafarer will much rather and trust his own eyes for visual checks. Most if not all now have Radar/GPS, pleasure craft too, but in the times of low vis as you describe, you would be surprised how very often towers etc. can still be made out….and when one does, joy that one can confirm/backup electronic nav aids.

But in zero vis. you are right but fortunately harbour pilots etc. agree with you, so ships stay put….

Cobh ….you’re an awful man…. for the yast 5 years we have started exportin a lot of young professionals each morning to Cork City…the odd architect even….. the Importation back each evening does have its drawbacks though…. all these new housing estates…. admittedly though in the county planning juristication.

Sam!

Thanks a million for seeing clearly the point I have being trying to make with Goldiefish for two days: the watertower is useless to you in 0 visibility conditions for any kind of navigation because you simply cannot see it. That was all I was trying to say and I do not think it represents either an entrenched position or incorrigibility on my part. I was merely stating a fact that you were kind enough to vouchsafe for the general readership.

On the basis of that fact, I think we can then say that the watertower is only RELATIVELY important for navigation in the harbour of Cork; and, hence, is not VITAL to navigating even a rowing boat. Given this, and the other fact that any prominent landmark will do for navigation in fair weather, then there is no excuse left for retaining that ugly lump of a watertower and no reason not to tear it down and put somewhere else out of sight. Did you see Corcaighboy’s loverly picture with the scaffolded spire? Why not use that, or even the palace? No that we see that there is no REASON for that ugly blot on the landscape, we will have to do something to wake the Cobh Urban District Council out of their slumberous laziness and get them to send someone up there to demolish it. This being an election year……..

As for Goldiefish and seeing the watertower in the dark, is there any chance that he might not have been thinking of navagating upriver underwater in a U-BOOT with one of those lazer pariscopes?