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  I worked at the Harbour Board for a season in 1989 on what was called the Dockhead. It is probably called the Marina now. The job entailed opening and closing the dock gates, swinging the bridge, tying up the sand boat in the Wellington dock and the cargo ships in the Granville dock, directing the yachts to their berths and collecting the dues from them.
  
  From memory the dock gates were opened one hour before High Water and closed two and a half hours after. The river Dour therefore flowed into the Wellington dock for approx. nine hours between tides. To counteract this inrush of water there are sluices on the Wellington dock gate which can be opened to allow the excess water to flow into the Harbour.
  
  We worked on a tidal basis so had to be on the job one and a half hours before H.W. and finished two and a half hours after H.W. = Four hours. Then away home for approx. eight hours and back for the next tide.
  
  When we closed the Wellington dock gate the Harbourmaster used to estimate, after looking at the rainfall forecast, how much water he thought would flow into the dock and we would open the sluices accordingly. Reading Scotchies post about the dock overflowing in 1927 it looks like the sluices were not opened wide enough and there must have been some unexpected torrential rain.

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