Hey,
I have written a few emails to the authorities over the years stating that the reef they want to build is a waste of time. I am not pessimistic, but I am 100% certain its a waste. Through all the articles and meetings there does not seem to be a strong argument that it will work. The comparisons they have made to say the breaks in Australia are often factually wrong and can't even be compared.
I am from Perth orginally, but lived in bournemouth 1 year and now london 3 years. We built a reef in cables beach in perth - we used solid granite and not sand bags as suggested by bournemouth authorities. Sand bags actually have shown to be the worst solution in Australia as they wash away. Only solutions is solid rock or a combination with tyres. Certainly not sand bags as being proposed for bournemouth reef. Anyway the number one criteria for the reef is that it needs lots of swell to already be coming through there, and also it needs already to have a decent size wave. The only reason you build an arteficiel reef is to improve the shape of the wave. You would have to spend a billion dollars if you actually wanted to really improve the size of the wave...and even then you would still needs heaps of swell...800 000 pounds simply will not be enough. The only place where it should have been built would be in newquay as it gets swell here already...and 10 million pounds would be required to make any difference.
Cables beach in Perth was already along a strip of beach which could get head to double head high waves in winter on clean offshore days. The reef did not change a single thing! in fact we always struggle to find where it is when we go surfing there! i think perth spend 6 million dollars on it with pure grannite rock...800 000 pounds of sand bags is a joke!
I can 100% tell you that this reef is a waste of time and you will see no improvement in the waves. email me on
michael.ceber@gmail.com if you have any questions
mikey
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