Ken Gibson of the NCA has forwarded this message from Joel Stevenson of Brown Consulting who is the Supervising Engineer for the replacement buoyed course.
It refers to his conversations with Ian Dickinson, the Tasmanian responsible for laying our original course and those at most other venues in Australia and SE Asia.

I received an email from Ian and he has advised me that the majority of equipment has arrived except for a couple of major items. Manufacturing of the smaller items has commenced and work on the cables is due to commence next week.

Ian has advised that they intend to be on the Lake soon after 22 October 2011, which I understand is after the date for the Dragon Boat Regatta.

I will continue to request updates on progress and provide you weekly updates on the status.