Westhaven now not wanting berth holders with permits to park at marina

[Priscilla II 410]

Yup, just had multiple replies to my Facebook offer.

2 Westhaven parking permits have produced these pearlers.

Swedish female gay couple circa 25 offered free unmentionables on a daily basis coupled with boat polishing and varnish package.

Grumpy 75 from Pt Chevalier offered to go gay but varnishing was not included.

Pam the Butcher was keen at free meat of choice but offered no unmentionables.

Parnell George had by far the winning bid to date, his daughter was available to varnish, polish and was a fully qualified marine engineer and electronics specialist that made her own sails.

[DrWatson 382]

Who are you and what have you done with Motorbike?

 

Hes gone feral

 

Yeah, these recent name changes have thrown me...

[Black Panther 1,691]

I think Black Panther draws 2.5 m and happily lives up there, but he thinks racing is silly and just goes cruising, so can choose his tides without trying to make the start of a race.

 

 

2.8 and sinking as we move more sh*t aboard.

 

At that I can get out between 1 and 2 hrs of the high. I don't have fishes fancy software but I scratched a mark on the piles so I know when I can depart. The owner has put reflective tape on the first entrance mark. I can sit at Arkles and flash a light on it. When it stops flashing back I can head up the river.

Mildly inconvenient but a beautiful spot up the river at 10% the price of GH who didn't want us anyway.

[Fish 0]

Its about lifestyle, what you save being on the piles adds up to a lot of new sails, bottom jobs etc etc. For regular racers you pretty much have to be on a marina.

I think that depends on your definition of 'regular'. Three times a week, yes.

Once a weekend or once a fortnight maybe not. Not sure how many owners have the time to sail (race) three times a week. I'm sure there is a magic formula between time, money and the inverse relationship to the time available to earn money. I know I haven't discovered it yet...

[Black Panther 1,691]

If we are going for a sail we normally leave the river the day before and anchor the night at Arkles. Like I say not as convenient but a good compromise for us.

[Black Panther 1,691]

Infact thatswhere i am right now. Might go to woody bay tobight

[marinheiro 359]

If you think Westhaven is tough now, wait until the last of the licences expire in 2029. Then the fun will really start.

Or maybe AC/Panuku developments will have to sell it to fund the CRL overrun.

[Clipper 358]

Yeah, I can see it really going bad in a few years.

[Zozza 324]

Who gave permission to sell Westhaven  to these Panuku scumbags anyway? Who the f#ck are they?  I thought it was supposed to be owned by Auckland City, i.e US the RATEPAYERS.

[marinheiro 359]

Panuku is another one of these so called Council Controlled entities, same as AT, Watercare etc. Basically means they are answerable to no one and most of our ie ratepayers,assets sit in these bodies so they can be sold off at any time.

[MarkMT 68]

As marinheiro said... Council appoints at least 50% of the board. I'm not sure of the current formal ownership structure, but it was formed from the merger of Auckland Council Property Limited and Waterfront Auckland.

 

The marina was owned by Ports of Auckland until 2004 when it was sold to the government. In 2010 Cabinet transferred ownership to Panuku (or one of its predecessor organizations).

[dutyfree 170]

CCO's and their assets generally can not be sold without the Councils approval.  http://governance.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/11-council-controlled-organisations/auckland-council-cos-and-ccos/

[John B 108]

People forget that  Westhaven and Okahu hardstand and ramp were  fundamentally developed as gifts to the people of Auckland to foster the sport of boating, just after WW2.

 

 The intent was that they stayed that way in perpetuity. As I understand it , it was handled in a handshake kind of lease arrangement between the Govt/local bodies at the time, and that lack of hard documentation is what has put us all in this situation now, where the boaters of Auckland are having their infrastructure sold off underneath them.

 

 That doesn't alter the intent of the agreement made .

[waikiore 444]

I have to correct you JB, people who taught me to sail amongst many others stumped up the money for the Westhaven berths before they were built. There was no gift, the harbour board as it was then had the money from private individuals before they started. Okahu Hardstand or Easthaven is it was on one of my early maps was slightly different, built from the dredgings of Okahu Bay. 

[John B 108]

I'll try and look for the reference I have at home. I'm happy to be straightened out , Water rat,buts thats what I was told and what I have read .

Westhaven was a boating facility before marina berths were built.eh.

[waikiore 444]

Correct, I was referring to the actual marina berths first starting around on the squadron side, when the dinghy locker was just that. 

[The big T 41]

It is my understanding the yacht clubs were encouraged to move there in the 40's with, in Richmonds case anyway, a 5000 pound grant from the Harbour Board. This unfortunately morphed into the Port Company claiming that they owned a share of the building and Richmond had to buy back this share, at well over $100000, in the 1990's. 

 

 

And still the battles continue, now with Panuku.

[waterboy67 0]

And its a battle akin to smacking your head into a brick wall.

 

Panuku is very the definition of bureaucratic bullshit. A pile of barely knowledgeable power riches knubnuts who only care about making sure their high paying no responsibility jobs are safe. Everything else comes 5th.

What do you expect when over 2000 Council employees are on 6 figure incomes? Similar sized Brisbane in wealthier Australia has 149 on 6 figure salaries..

The Super (Size Me) City is out of control and needs some Jenny Craig therapy, however Turkeys seldom vote for Christmas.