Got a call heading out for my quick winter getaway and violent storm.
Marina manager calls trying to tell me even though I have been renting berths for over 5 years I'm no longer allowed to live on my yacht due to insurance / Blaa blaa reasons.
i argued with him and told him I have been living in marinas for past 5 years up the east coast.....etc
at least 20 live aboards in North haven S.A 10 or more in Cairns , Airlie , Port doug and Townsville they even have thursday night music night at the breakwater Marina.
all with laundry matts, bars and friendly people.

apparently he's had a few complaints!
im in the richest most unused unsecured Marina in S.A ?
Did he have a bad long queens birthday?
Luckly for me I'm heading overseas and gave him the date and he said that's all I need for now!

So where do I stand? Rules and Regs ?

Yeah I'm renting a private berth nearly half the price they would charge Im sure it would have been fine if renting through them like I did in the past!

I don't mind really my new 225 watt solar panel arrived today..... By September I hope to live on the pick, grow a beard and eat mung beans! I'm just paying the lease hold annual payents on the berth to a private owner. I have many other options but I'm just curious on there intentions.

Most carvan parks have permanent residents they love the rent!
In Townsville breakwater Marina Thursday nights was music night and catch up for drinks with the local liveaboards you could have your washing going as you sink cans and exchange story's. And the old guy living on a fishing boat with the palliative girls coming down every day to wash him and take him shopping.
Yorkeys knob old mate passed away on his yacht and we had a wake all you could drink and eat on his Tab.
Cairns Marlin Marina and surrounding waterways, well a few ferals but still all good liveaboard.
PDouglas Marina I recall the office chick lives in the Marina on a yacht.
The memory's!
but a little pee off!

Does anyone know of a marina in Victoria that actually allows live aboards to stay there? Williamstown used to way back when, I don't know if they still do or not.

I believe Yaringa in Western Port Bay is the only marina I've heard of that allows live-aboards.

I have heard of a few people who have done so at other marinas, keeping a low profile and apparently not harassed by the management. But I guess it's a bit fragile and one step out of place and you'd be gone..........

FabulousPhill said..
Re:"Does anyone know of a marina in Victoria that actually allows live aboards to stay there? Williamstown used to way back when, I don't know if they still do or not."
Gippsland Ports marinas allow live-aboards in Paynesville and in their other locations. They may not say so but there are live-aboards there.
http://www.gippslandports.vic.gov.au/gippsland_berth.php?berth_id=8
When the prices stabilise (the increase is being phased in) my 10x3m berth will be about $2200 a year. Car park and water in front, rubbish and toilets/showers only 50 metres away. No electricity connection.

Besides Yaringa, Hastings also allow live-aboards.

Thanks for the information, I was hoping for something in Port Phillip Bay, but not to matter, just have to wait a little longer then get out of Victoria for good, I hope.

It is my understanding that it is not legal to live on board anywhere in Australia, whether it be at anchor, on a mooring or even at a marina berth.
Now, while it is not officially condoned, the authorities for the most part turn a blind eye to the practice and I guess some conditions apply, your boat is not a total sh1t box, you don't hang the laundry from the rigging or blast the area with your boom box at 2:00am, there are possibly other reasons that will get you moved on.
But I think the thing is to fly under the radar, not make waves or upset the apple cart.

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Be it at a marina or on a mooring, living aboard seems to be less kosher as a means of housing one's self lately. If that is the way you want to live you just have to be very low profile and shift around a bit.

If one is serious about the sailing life style, he would be shifting around a bit anyway which means he would not spend too much time at any particular marina or mooring.

Those that just hang in the one spot for a long time and let it all hang out (washing, animals and pot plants on the marina) are just making it harder for everybody else.

Bruski068 said..

cisco said..
Be it at a marina or on a mooring, living aboard seems to be less kosher as a means of housing one's self lately. If that is the way you want to live you just have to be very low profile and shift around a bit.

If one is serious about the sailing life style, he would be shifting around a bit anyway which means he would not spend too much time at any particular marina or mooring.

Those that just hang in the one spot for a long time and let it all hang out (washing, animals and pot plants on the marina) are just making it harder for everybody else.

Very true, it's the same with the idiots who go camping in national parks and leave their campsites looking like the local garbage dump.

The marina where I have my boat doesn't appear to have an issue with people living there. Some of these people have jobs and businesses. They just like this part of boating lifestyle. I like it too because they are all friendly and its good to catch up with them when I go down to work on my boat or head out for a sail.

Please don't say things that make out that all permanent live aboard people in marinas are the same as you have grumbled about. To me, they help make my overall boating experience better. I might even join the ranks one day.


(I wonder what your back yard looks like)

My 2 marina's Yorkeys and Marlin have quite a few live aboards. I'm lucky they're all pretty friendly and as a plus we have zero theft issues. Not that I have much that anybody would want anyway!

Crusoe said..

Bruski068 said..

cisco said..
Be it at a marina or on a mooring, living aboard seems to be less kosher as a means of housing one's self lately. If that is the way you want to live you just have to be very low profile and shift around a bit.

If one is serious about the sailing life style, he would be shifting around a bit anyway which means he would not spend too much time at any particular marina or mooring.

Those that just hang in the one spot for a long time and let it all hang out (washing, animals and pot plants on the marina) are just making it harder for everybody else.

Very true, it's the same with the idiots who go camping in national parks and leave their campsites looking like the local garbage dump.

The marina where I have my boat doesn't appear to have an issue with people living there. Some of these people have jobs and businesses. They just like this part of boating lifestyle. I like it too because they are all friendly and its good to catch up with them when I go down to work on my boat or head out for a sail.

Please don't say things that make out that all permanent live aboard people in marinas are the same as you have grumbled about. To me, they help make my overall boating experience better. I might even join the ranks one day.


(I wonder what your back yard looks like)

My backyard looks a little bit wet, the grass is at the stage where mowing it is a toss up weather to do it now or wait for next week, the Mandarin trees are full of fruit that are almost ripe for plucking, the other fruit trees are bare as is natural at this time of year, otherwise the vegetable garden behind the privacy hedge is growing along nicely with no weeds in the beds, everything else is packed away out of site in the shed. that is what my backyard looks like though why you wanted to know on a sailing forum is beyond my comprehension.