Wynnum Wading Pool  

 

On Monday 16^th April 2007 the Wynnum Pool was fenced off as a construction site for the refurbishment work which is anticipated to take 7 months at a cost of $5.5 million (anticipated completion November 2007).

 

In the interim, Monday sailing will be at the Manly Harbour.

UBD Reference Map 163 P5

 

Wednesday and Friday social sailing will also be at Manly Harbour with the proviso that if no-one turns up by 9am then the rescue dinghy will be taken back home.

It takes at minimum of two people to launch and retrieve the Club’s rubber duck dinghy.

 

John McLachlan                  Phone  07 3349 2220        email  mclachlan@uq.net.au

Vice Commodore

WMRMYC Inc

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The Wynnum Manly Radio Model Yacht Club Inc has sailed at the Wading Pool for many years every Monday at 9-30 am. This allows the more social sailors a venue to participate. Twelve or more International One Metre skippers regularly attend these races.    (see website for the Sailing Program of regular Monthly racing events)

Those IOM skippers who feel they want even more sailing can meet at the Wading Pool each Wednesday ( pool maintenance allowing ) and Friday morning commencing at 8-30am and going to about 1pm. These mornings can be used for practising starts, rounding buoys, and penalty turns, adjusting and trying rigging setups, racing or just sailing relaxingly up and down the pool.

The Wading Pool also caters for other model yacht sailors as well as powered model boats. It is a common courtesy to check with these sailors for any possible conflict of radio crystal frequencies and to allow them room to sail.

It should be remembered that part of the WMRMYC’s permission to use the Wading Pool is that children in the pool have priority.

The Brisbane City Council has a schedule for Pool Maintenance (see Wynnum Wading Pool Maintenance Schedule) which involves draining and refilling fortnightly in summer and monthly in winter alternating with bobcat scraping and leveling of the sand bottom. This is dependent on the tides and may take two days to complete when the bobcat is involved. Wednesdays are usually the days most affected. It takes about one and a half hours to get a sailable depth of water in the wading pool from empty, when the gates are opened at high tide.

The Brisbane City Council Park Ranger endeavours to keep the Wading Pool topped up to 600mm or better of water depth. Major refurbishment of the Wading Pool is planned by the Brisbane City Council for the 2007 financial year.

The Wynnum Wading Pool was a Depression era project and was opened in 1933. The parkland was reclaimed from the sea, a revetment wall was built and backfilled with an area left to create the tidal pool. The pool is approx 150m long by 50m wide with a 1m maximum depth. Terraced concrete steps are on the seaward side, against the walkway and bikeway, and concrete walls are elsewhere. Toilet blocks are at the northern end of the Wading Pool and several cafes are just across the road. Shelter sheds, park benches and wood barbeques exist in the surrounding shady parkland.

 John McLachlan                           phone 07 3349 2220                  email  mclachlan@uq.net.au

Vice Commodore

  WMRMYC Inc