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What are great autocorrect. I did mean bimini 😇

Anyone got any recommendations please? What works, what doesn't. Cheers

I have an industrial sewing machine and could run it all up for a box of the cold stuff

Bit of a long shot but if anyone has a railblaza 'receiver' they no longer want, I'm after just the moving lock part. Don't want to buy the whole replacement part which is well attached.

Make your own for a couple of handy. Not difficult. Fabric, leather for chaff areas, couple of battens, bit of sew time

Haha. No I guess not. What is that... a hundred k🤢. Apologies to all

Hi. I agree with wreck removal. I agree $50 doesn't go anywhere towards removing wrecks, but the article on TV indicated $20 to $30k per removal. When there's what, maybe 2000 mooring owners adding maybe one million odd dollars per year that equates to what, 80 to 100 wrecks worth. Obviously costs will vary but I don't see the math adding up. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

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Ash. I do recall that when that fee, $50 pa was added it was specifically to address the abandoned boats issue around Auckland. There may be a thread on Crew about that, from several years ago.

There was no mention of the fact that we as mooring owners were paying for the wrecks to be recovered

My query was more about the unbalanced IMHO reporting, inferring that local council was paying for it all

Other than chasing owners with a written warning to pay their fees, does HM ever do anything to collect outstanding money?

The issue I was making was mainly in relationship to the public perception that the general city population was paying for this through rates, which is clearly not the case. I'm guessing at the number of moorings around Auckland, but it's still bringing in what, a mil per year, plus? Are they spending that annually on the problem? I think not.

Very interesting article, HM didn't mention anything about the fact that our mooring fees went up several years ago by $50 pa to cover wreck recovery. Maybe 20,000 moorings x $50 what, around $1m per annum to deal with the problem? They infered that rate payers were paying for it. P!$$ED me off a bit.