Anyone from here.


www.lakesmail.com.au/story/4812358/man-charged-after-lake-macquarie-yacht-drama/?cs=749

At Bayview there is always craft on the Blue moorings. In fact one sank at mooring in 2015/2016.

Mooring minders should be policed. Also those who keep their craft elsewhere and leave mooring vacant should be stopped.

The waiting list near us at Bayview is huge (2 to 3 year wait) and yet RMS do nothing about mooring minders. Some near us have growth on hull 3 to 4" thick. In the past 4 years I've only seen RMS impound one (Bluebird) near us and it was a slow process (displaying notice on mooring minder).

It would be so simple for RMS to check it out (record mooring number, take photo, send to registered person do a 2nd check and evict if craft not clean. Take mooring minder to Kimbriki Tip!!!

I don't know who he is but he's at least shown the basta*ds that they can't just harass people and steal their possessions without getting a fight, it's going to be happening more and more as the damned cops and the crats and the stinking pollies find more and more ways of taking from the people they're supposedly there to serve, three cheers for a battler.

Near my boat two of those 'poor battlers proud possessions' type disgraceful mooring minders were tagged and removed recently.

I can only congratulate Maritime for it as half of the moorings in Sydney are occupied by boats which are a disgrace.

I found Bruskies outburst rather funny.
Aren't you a demagogue from speakers corner in disguise?

Presumably you rent a mooring under a contract with certain requirements. If you breach those requirements then there are consequences.

I know that we live in a "it's always someone else's fault" society, but sometimes you gotta face the results of the commitments you make.

If you choose to speed, don't whinge about getting a ticket.

Cheers

Bristle

Oh. An anarchist! Reading your contributions in the last age, l was wondering! Ok. No cment.
I hope your gall bladder is ok.

However, you are welcome to comment on this three pictures. All of the vessels - which once were someone's proud property - were removed by Maritime. Two of them in the last eighteen months. Both of them were my next door neighbours to boot.













So here is another opportunity to repeatedly kick the authorities for their inconsiderate bullish behavior.
Those vessels are poignant examples of what should not be tolerated on our waterways.
Their owners - might or might not be anarchists - but they are inconsiderate fools and enemies of their own financial interests and no seamans at all to boot.

The Maritime services spend a lot of time chasing down the owners of these vessels before they act. Some how the owners disappear. The boats are lifted out and stored on the hard for 3 months so the owners have a chance to claim them. The two here have been waiting for well over three months. They will be destroyed eventually. The MSB has a fund [taxpayers money] set aside to sort out these boats. In the latest "Afloat magazine there is an article on how the MSB is also trying to find new owners for some of the more historic vessels they have acquired. One of the boats is one of the ex navy 40 foot workboats and looks like the boat I used to run out of HMAS Waterhen in 1969.

Yep, we've got people on this forum who had their boats damaged by careless owners of moored boats.

Moorings are a scarce resource. Why allow them to be held onto by people who obviously have no real interest in having a boat to use? It's not a "nanny state", it's a "think of your responsibility to others" state.

One would hazard a guess that if you could present Maritime with a reasonable case to say that your boat was not unseaworthy and was going to be fixed up, they'd let you keep it. They've got enough on their plates.

The guy who got in trouble had his boat on the police mooring 100 metres away from my boat for over a month.

I did see him on the boat at first. He had a swivel chair on the Hartley and it looked sort of interesting. I waved but got no response, he probably didn't see me.

Then he was gone, but the boat stayed on the Police mooring. It says on the float itself that the police mooring is an emergency mooring. People put boats that have broken their mooring on it for a few days before they get their own fixed. The swivel chair fell overboard but hooked on the lifelines, the mainsail was 3 metres up the mast and flapped away, day after day, week after week. Then the head flapped off the rest of the main. Companionway doors open. The boat looked abandoned.

Last weekend, or the weekend before, I saw a guy on it. The main tied down and the Police trying to talk to the guy. He shouted something and the police went away. The boat looked somewhat cleaned up. Later I heard the news.

I am glad the guy is now not near my boat. An poorly kept, heavy ferro boat is not what you want to the west of you in the winter in my bay (which is open to the west). The guy could have anchored on a good set up, rented a mooring, pulled his main down, put the swivel chair ashore, cleaned his boat, and made it seaworthy.

I don't know the owner but the boat was close to a wreck. I am all for people living on their boats free of hassles but, this guy is not the test case to go into battle for.

cheers

Phil

Im not saying anything!!

After the moorings are freed up do they go back as available?

There is a lot more to this story going around the lake . Allegedly this all started when somebody sold this yacht to this person who has mental issues .The yacht is unseaworthy the person who sold the yacht to him then takes him down to the RMS transfers the yacht over to him ,and I guess takes his money and runs? .
This person then breaks into another yacht and steals basically everything that isn't bolted down to furnish he new investment and trashes the by rest ripping doors off hinges ,crapping in the head etc and leaves ,leaving $15.000 plus damage to the yacht .He is known as the "floating squatter"
The problem I see with these old wrecks is ? there is no pink slip as such to say a vessel is seaworthy like vehicles have . If there was you wouldn't have these wrecks etc clogging up our bays . secondly it wouldn't be hard to police as the maritime do patrols of bays for rego checks moorings and the like . but maybe this all to hard for them ?

Bj

I don't mind if someones boat looks crap or sinks on its mooring but no one wants another boat to break loose and collide into their boat in a blow.

I'm not much of a rules n regs guy but I have to say when a less than observant skipper dropped his boat on my mooring at Toronto a quick call to Glen at Maritime had it sorted. Glen hooked up the other guy, moved him to his correct mooring, collected my boat off the commercial mooring and hooked it back on mine - all while I was at work.
When Glen rang to say all done, I asked how much, contribution to waifs and widows etc? Answer: nothing, all part of the service, no paperwork no whingeing just done.
I can't speak for anyone else but my RMS experience on the Lake was excellent.

One boat gets moved on, another appears in its place.

I saw this boat floating (may have been anchored ) very close to shore on the other side of the bay, while driving out to my boat two weeks ago.
I wondered where it had gone, then saw it on the police mooring last weekend, this where the boat that K mentioned was moored before the incident.

In need of a lot of TLC and mast, I wonder what will happen to it now?

Funny looking rig on the cat..... I wonder if the owner knows what he's doing with it?