Hello,

I am interested buying a yacht on a swing mooring.

My question is, if you go away for a few months sailing, what are the odds when you come back someone will have their boat on your mooring? Does that happen? If so, what do you do?

Or are moorings pretty much left alone by people who dont own them?

Thanks

I would think you would have to be pretty unlucky to have someone dump a boat on your mooring. I have had mine two years in St Kilda Melbourne and only one seen someone another s mooring and that was in a squal he was there maybe half hour.

Pretty much the same as above for WA, I dunno that you have to inform them of your boat being absent though (in WA). Provided the lease is paid up to date, its not their mooring to re-lease just because you havent had your boat on it.

I could be wrong though.....

Either way Im sure it wouldnt be a problem.

I have a morring in Sydney and for a veriety of reasons my boat was away from it for about three months when i recieved a call from the MSB asking when they could expect me to return my boat to the mooring, i told the lady that i would return in a week or two, but time slipped by and i hadnt returned , then i recieved a email from the same lady telling me that i had vacated the mooring for an extended period of time and was about to be removed as the current mooring holder unless i returned within a given time. The next weekend i went to put my boat back on the mooring only to find that the mooring bouy was gone, supposidly run over by a passing speeed boat etc etc, so i had to then find somewere to leave my boat while i organised a diver to find the actual mooring block and rety a new rope and then purchase and attach a replacemet bouy, and since then all has been great, but the message is that you should tell the MSB if you are going to be off your mooring for an extended time ie over 3 months..
Happy sailing.
Ben 405