That's funny. That thing sat in Howe Sound forever while multiple tow companies, surveyors and insurance experts crawled over it for fitness to travel. Missed several departure dates and then sat in Duncan Bay getting rerigged.
There was a pool on whether it would even make it to Kitimat. Nobody won.
The problem here for the breakwater is the same reason anchoring a boat around here can be hard.
The marina is in a small bay beside a creek (when I say creek, it's of a size other places might call it a river) and the breakwaters cement anchoring blocks are dropped onto a mud slope from the estuary drying flats which go to a depth of a couple hundred feet before the slope angle softens. The slope drops 100 feet of depth in 200 feet of horizontal distance where the anchor blocks are placed.
The blocks fall along a slope which lies in a south - north direction, but the breakwater lies pretty much east - west. The problem is, winter storms can be short lived (day or so) 60 knots from the south, or northerly outflow 40 knots for up to two weeks at a stretch.
There is the Kitimat River estuary nearby, and Minette Bay's narrow entrance is close as well, so when currents run into waves, they get very steep and close together which pummels the breakwater.
The anchoring blocks were easily twice the size (outside dimension-wise) of previous ones, but the breakwater is larger/heavier, so we'll see?!!?
Hopefully, if it all breaks free, it'll be deflected while destroying the outer docks and not reach ours in the middle of the marina
