A gang of Gabion Fillers, drawn from both the sailing club and the gig club, assembled again at the Hub Club today. Their task was to move rocks by hand from the huge stack, piled up in the parking area, across to the staging and into the upper gabion baskets.
Heavy buckets of rock were filled, carried and lifted up to where they could be neatly aligned into the upper gabion baskets.
Fuel for the labourers was provided in the form of home-made cake and bacon sandwiches, together with hot drinks.
At the end of today’s work they had filled 2/3 of the upper gabions.
Next Sunday 11th February, the final filling of these high tier gabions will be completed by a similar team of volunteers drawn from both clubs.
Well done to everyone who helped today and we look forward to seeing this job finished next weekend!
After the gabion filling has been completed, the bank around the baskets will be backfilled with earth to bed them in and contour them into the landscape.
Weir Quay Sailing Club 