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Offline Jack

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Re: What's Llandudno Like Right Now?
« Reply #5730 on: October 27, 2014, 05:38:50 pm »
From the CCBC twitter feed:

Beach management works - North Shore Llandudno

Following the recent coastal storm we are planning to carry out beach management works along North Shore, Llandudno to re-profile the beach and remove the sharp ridges that have been formed by the waves. We will also take this opportunity to re-profile the surplus material around the new slipway.

The works will commence on Monday 27th October 2014 and is anticipated to take up to 3 weeks to complete.

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« Reply #5731 on: October 27, 2014, 05:56:12 pm »
What storm ,did I sleep through it ,so they are saying every time we have a storm they will re-profile   Not bad for a council that has to save something like £ 37 mill next year ,


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« Reply #5732 on: October 27, 2014, 06:21:59 pm »
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We will also take this opportunity to re-profile the surplus material around the new slipway.


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Does that mean 'we'll shift the stones round a bit'? Reminds me, time to re-profile the kitchen, probably by re-allocating sanitisingly-challenged baked-stoneware into the interior of the steam-pipe  and water distribution venue...
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« Reply #5733 on: October 27, 2014, 06:26:36 pm »
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We will also take this opportunity to re-profile the surplus material around the new slipway.
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Does that mean 'we'll shift the stones round a bit'?
Yes ....and take three weeks to do it.    $angry$

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« Reply #5734 on: October 28, 2014, 10:18:44 am »
      I passed the the new Yacht Club slipway earlier this morning and there was a lot of "reprofiling" going on with a bulldozer, a tracked shingle/rubble moving vehicle with a bucket and a "Vehicle Marshall" on site, and also the portacabin is back again. The bulldozer was levelling the shingle/rubble to the north of the slipway and the tracked vehicle was moving the debris from the east side, presumably with a view to levelling the easterly side as well to stop the same thing reoccurring with the next strong wind/spring tide.
      It is hard to see what can be done to prevent the slipway from being buried every time there is a strong North or N/E wind onto the shore besides taking the existing level area at the top out further and raising the complete ramped surface as it is in a very exposed part of the shore unlike the present life-boat slipway which is somewhat sheltered in the lee of the Orme.

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« Reply #5735 on: October 28, 2014, 10:45:50 am »
  It is hard to see what can be done to prevent the slipway from being buried every time there is a strong North or N/E wind onto the shore besides taking the existing level area at the top out further and raising the complete ramped surface as it is in a very exposed part of the shore unlike the present life-boat slipway which is somewhat sheltered in the lee of the Orme.
Agreed. The design is fundamentally flawed in that respect, I said this right from the start.

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« Reply #5736 on: October 28, 2014, 12:56:26 pm »
I was amazed to see the re-erection of fencing, portacabin etc. The cost must be huge.

What about the new lifeboat station, will that suffer a similar problem ?

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« Reply #5737 on: October 28, 2014, 01:03:05 pm »
What about the new lifeboat station, will that suffer a similar problem ?
It shouldn't do, as the shingle doesn't tend to move about so much at that end of the Prom, but it should certainly be a design consideration for the new Slipway.

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« Reply #5738 on: October 28, 2014, 01:46:31 pm »
 
       
What about the new lifeboat station, will that suffer a similar problem ?
It shouldn't do, as the shingle doesn't tend to move about so much at that end of the Prom, but it should certainly be a design consideration for the new Slipway.
           I went down to watch the launching and recovery trials for the proposed new Llandudno Lifeboat a couple of years ago and the boat, which was the new 44ft. Shannon Class craft or FCB-2 (Fast Carriage Boat 2) and is jet powered like a jet-ski, was transported down to the sea on an articulated tractor/carriage from the present concrete apron just beyond the paddling pool where the new boathouse is proposed, down over the shingle banks and launched from the carriage into the sea.
      It was retrieved by driving the boat hard back up onto the shingle at speed (it is a fibreglass boat and therefore very strong) and then hauled back up onto the carriage which then can be turned through 180 degrees on its own axis like a railway turntable and be ready for relaunch almost immediately. The tractor/carriage is built like an articulated tractor-trailer which can be propelled from the rear into the sea for launching or used as a towing vehicle and was very impressive and manoeuverable over the shingle banks while pushing or pulling over the uneven surface, so in practice a slipway should not be required as the carriage will be able to transport the boat down the the water at any state of tide.

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« Reply #5739 on: October 28, 2014, 02:33:12 pm »
I saw this awhile ago and did not realize it was deliberate ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smZY7el-Ubo&spfreload=10

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« Reply #5740 on: October 28, 2014, 02:41:38 pm »
The new slipway was planned way before the idiots put all that quarry rock there ,maybe if the different dept ,s had talked to each other it would not have costed so much and not taken so long,as the guys doing slipway had to clear the rocks away to start and kept doing that nearly every day . :rage:

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« Reply #5741 on: October 28, 2014, 03:30:22 pm »
                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwpEp-bysAY
           
              This was on the same u-tube page Steve and shows how close the fast beaching approach came to writing off the carriage on one of the practice runs!
       

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« Reply #5742 on: October 28, 2014, 04:07:52 pm »
                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwpEp-bysAY
       
              This was on the same u-tube page Steve and shows how close the fast beaching approach came to writing off the carriage on one of the practice runs!
   
Oooooops...lucky....I would not fancy writing that report. &shake&

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Re: What's Llandudno Like Right Now?
« Reply #5743 on: October 29, 2014, 10:09:33 pm »
Evening all,anyone any ideas why the grand ash hotel is closing for business from Friday 

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Re: What's Llandudno Like Right Now?
« Reply #5744 on: October 30, 2014, 09:25:00 am »
Same happened last year and the then manager Des was doubtful that it would open for this season, but it did with a new manager, but ongoing work to literally shore it up is still in place.
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