Waterways - or the deliverance dredging experiment.

[Odynn 2,248]

Current sea access : yellow / orange -> cave canals; blue / deep blue -> open air canal

 

Spoiler

 

bright unicorn pink : planned waterways / dredged areas

 

Actually sallow water boats can sail from the northern sea to turtle lake. I "successfully" sailed a cog from turtle lake to echo lake southern shore (north cave canal entrance). By successfully, read, shallow water at GD south exit in need of dredging and awfully shallow water on echo lake.

 

What's the plan you may ask, it's easy allow any boats to sail from the north coast to Turtle Lake. Longer term goal : Improve deliverance lakes connection to the sea (and by sea, i mean all of them). ToDo list ?

 

• pave the echo waterway - allowing an easy visual spotting of the dredged canal DONE
• dredge the echo waterway (once paved) to the -24 depth allowing all boats to sail on it DONE
• (improve waterway marking - pillars / vyn colossus at the east end of echo waterway ?)
• dredge the Green Dog southern harbor entrance toward turtle lake DONE
• survey bear lake depth / check where a waterway is needed

 

Waterway - graphical identity - Slabs are grey / Sand is yellow

 

Potential others improvement in the area :

•  replace a part of the highway on turtle lake by a bridge, connecting the two parts of the lake as they used to.

Edited September 12, 2016 by Odynn
Moar stuff to add

[Odynn 2,248]

Cog sailing test successfully done from Turtle lake to the northern sea and back.

 

Bear lake sailing test prove that it's mostly navigable for the bigger ships, except some shallow spots which will either require dredging or proper marking to avoid.

 

Same goes for the eastern part of echo lake where some shallow areas can still be found near lakeside end. Visibility is an issue, specially at night, kinda raise the need for buoys with lamps on it and decent sailing maps.

[Steveleeb 1,067]

On 9/11/2016 at 4:14 PM, Odynn said:

dredge the echo waterway (once paved) to the -24 depth allowing all boats to sail on it DONE

I know the task.
well done.