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Post-earthquake repairs are underway at the Waimakariri Sailing and Power Boat Club and are expected to be completed around three months from now.
“The Waimakariri Sailing and Powerboat Club will be the first Christchurch yacht club to start their earthquake repairs,” explains Regional Support Officer Kate Spackman. “With high tides now flooding the boat sheds underneath the club house the repairs will see the building lifted as well as repaired.”
Club Commodore, Murray Walls says “The whole of the building will end up 400mm higher than it was before the work commenced.”
Here he outlines the process…
- The repairs to the yacht club have started, and are programmed to be completed in the middle of October, after opening day next season.
- The repairs to the building will both fix the earthquake damage, and raise the building to reduce the number of instances when water flows through the ground floor due to extra high tides.
- For those who don’t know how the club is going to be repaired, the following is a summary of the process:
- The whole of the first floor of the building will be raised 400mm, and the two halves pulled back together.
- The ground floor block walls to the east end of the building will be demolished and the floor slab and foundations removed.
- A new commercial type rib raft foundation will be constructed at the east end, with the floor level 400mm higher than the existing floor.
- New block walls, will be built on top of this foundation.
- The gap between the top of the existing west end walls, and the raised first floor will be filled, with a combination of steelwork and timber.
- A new domestic type rib raft floor slab will be poured over the existing west end floor to raise the floor level by 400mm.
- New concrete apron slabs will be poured around the building to marry in with the raised parking area and boat ramp.
- All the club's equipment had to removed to carry out the repairs and a 40ft container was hired and placed on a club members property down the road who had their house demolished due to quake damage. The photos show club members packing gear into the container, safety fences surrounding the clubhouse and the bund to hold back king tides.
All going well, members of the Waimakariri Sailing and Power Boat Club will have their Clubhouse repaired and operational from mid October just after the start of the coming summer season.
