Where exactly is...

[DR]

they talk on the weather reports about the 'BRISBANE BAR CUTTING" when doing tide reports......
where exactly is it??? can someone please shed a little light.
cheers
DR

[sharkbait]

Mouth of the Brisbane River, believe it or not...Got out in a 20 knot N/e and you'll believe it ;D

[Cheech]

I'm a believer. I have had my worst boating conditions at the mouth or the river. Not far before the wharves and I was looking up to the top of the waves.

Maybe that is why they call it a bar.

Cheech

[MY-TopEnder]

Really? i'd assumed that around Fishermans Islands there was still pretty calm.

[SeaSaw]

The main tide measuring equipment for port of Brisbane used to be located on a tripod at the mouth of the river.

I know this because my father who was a professional skipper before he retired, knocked it down when bringing a barge (the Darra for those that remember the coral dredging that used to happen at mud island) into the river in a 40knot crosswind. Harbour and Marine were really pi$$ed at the time and undertook an investigation on the incident, which was found to be caused by a trawler coming down the wrong side of the river on autopilot ??? - try steering a 100m barge around a corner in a 40 knot crosswind with a trawler coming straight at you. :o Anyway, to cut a long story short, this really stuffed up the tide measurement for Brisbane for a while. This story just shows how difficult a stretch of water the mout of the river can be in rough conditions.

Cheers,

Mark

p.s. for all you mud island fisherman who disagreed with the dredging at mud island, I agree, and it was just one of many ships dad skippered around brisbane over the last 35 years.

[DR]

thanks fellas,
is there some kind of marker etc. to me the mouth of the river is a large area, just need to satisfy my curiosity on where exactly they take their measurements.
cheers