Will those boats who have been occupying the Parks Vic 24 hour public moorings for the last many months please be considerate and allow others a chance to use them.

SandS said..


location ?

I could say in this public forum but it would be better for them to just do the right thing.

Rob S said..

SandS said..


location ?

I could say in this public forum but it would be better for them to just do the right thing.

Would assume that if they were actually prepared to do "the right thing", there would be no problem in the first place.

Just pop a note under the windscreen wiper...........or whatever the nautical equivalent is! I was motoring passed Sorrento on Tuesday evening and checked the
Parks Vic moorings. They are all unoccupied so i'm presuming its somewhere else.
Lovely weather at the moment for an evening on the boat.

Guitz said..
Just pop a note under the windscreen wiper...........or whatever the nautical equivalent is! I was motoring passed Sorrento on Tuesday evening and checked the
Parks Vic moorings. They are all unoccupied so i'm presuming its somewhere else.
Lovely weather at the moment for an evening on the boat.

Last summer there was a yacht down there on a Parks Vic 24 hour for a few months it was close to my boat

"The way the marine moorings are manage leaves a lot to be desired in Mexacanville."

My first mooring I did myself at Stony Point, a proper job with good chain, anchors with one bent fluke buried in the mud etc. The cost of the lot was $370 in the late 80's and an annual fee from Ports & Harbours of around $50. Plenty of encouraging advise from the local fishermen Ray Hall and others and a sense of being welcomed into the local boating community. I used to motor to Flinders and found the same reception. Then didn't have a boat on a mooring till last year........I got a shock at how things have changed. Typical of the worst of the change is one day when checking my row boat at Camerons Bight, I saw a business card tied to it with one of those plastic ties. It was advertising the services of a Jo Blow the self professed mooring broker. Sign of the times I suppose but not the direction I think mooring management should be going........and I don't think the local yacht clubs are the best option for managing the moorings in the area as is the case for Blairgowrie. It's not all bad as I have found what can be described I suppose as a " loose" local network of boaties that "do the right thing" ie not charge like a wounded bull or over inflate the whole mooring caper. I hate generalizations that always contain a prejudice one way or the other but at that risk, I have found on occasion the attitude expressed that "you should only get into boating if you can afford it" espoused by those who are quite well off and pay good money for everything that is done on their boats. If that approach to boating becomes the overriding norm it would be very sad indeed and I think Australian culture would be the worse for it. There are ways of minimizing expenditure of owning a good boat without compromising essential safety and seaworthiness. Some cosmetic concessions may have to apply.........a roundabout way of saying all the best in your boating endeavors mangrovefrog.

I would like to apologize some for my out bust its was built into me by my dear old mum when I was a little tacker. I was told to look out for the more unfortunate
than me.
Got into a few blues because of it as well

The funnest one happen in Tennant creek many many years ago was not funny initial but turned out OK in the end.
Met a tourist passing through had a couple of beer with him we walk out to his car and caravan only to find it was gone , stolen . I lent him some money as most of his was in the caravan . Got him a job at the mine I was working in and he stay for nearly a year to save up some money.

We went to the same pub to have a couple before he left on the bus. Driving him down to the bus stop and bingo heres his caravan for sale on the side of the road . So he ended up getting both his car and van back and droving out a little richer