ORCV Safety at Sea

Parks Victoria - Notice to Mariners

Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park

Repositioning of Mid-boundary Marker Buoys.

Parks Victoria have issued the following Notice to Mariners, regarding the repositioning of mid-boundary marker buoys for the Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park.

It is important that you read this information prior to the start of the 2010 M2KI race on 06/03/10. It will also be valid, hence forth, for M2PF and M2AB etc.

You certainly would not want to be in that part of the Heads, but it will be important to know what the lights are, given there are a million of them in the general area.

Number: Parks Victoria NTM No: 019-2010

Description: PORT PHILLIP HEADS MARINE NATIONAL PARK REPOSITIONING OF MID BOUNDARY MARKER BUOYS

Click HERE to download the Parks Victoria NTM document.

The ORCV's offshore starts are in the vicinity of Shortland Bluff, which is just up the road a tad from the area in question. Shortland Bluff is home to three of the four towers that go together to form the famous 'Four Fingers West', which you can see right here, albeit that they are not correctly aligned, however. Also visible is the new Queenscliff Harbour tower appearing over the top of the pier and just at the end of Shortland Bluff. Below is what the new harbour and all the facilities look like.

By John Curnow