Hendo, be sure to check the condition and weight of the mooring apparatus. Mine is serviced annually, for me, insurer, and Maritime. Heavier boat=heavier block. Your user won`t thank you if it fails, nor will Axe later on.
Buying one for 8K is different to here, you can`t trade them. Maritime administers and leases out sites, usually to a waiting list. You get the mooring apparatus installed, your cost, you maintain. Maritime will put you in touch with the relinquishing user so you can buy his apparatus,usually $ 100-$200, saving him removing it. My site rent is about $700 a year, maintenance about $200 plus parts replaced. There are also some commercial moorings associated with marinas you can rent, they supposedly maintain.
Thanks Bruce.
My mooring is under survey atm and is current till August this year. They get done every two years.
Mine is not a block or weight. Mine is a 4mtr long steel pin drilled into the sea floor. A pin is a Railway track drilled vertically into the sea floor with a fitting on top to fix the chains up to the apparatus.
When she goes for surveying in August, I will be adding an extra pin and an anchor to the North on 4mtrs of chain so its like a triangle effect fixed to the sea floor at three points.
"Technically" no one in Western Australia can "Buy" a mooring. Moorings are assigned to a vessel. The Govt. closed new mooring applications back in the 70's I believe. The only way to get a mooring is to be on a waiting list which is total BS (10+ years long) orrrrrrr do what I and the seller did. Basically, The current licensed vessel (His boat) is transferred into my name. That triggers the transfer of the mooring site licence into my name. Once the mooring paperwork is sent to me, I then nominate a boat (Mine) as the licensed vessel for the mooring site, I then transfer his vessel back to him and WA LA, the mooring is in my name with my boat assigned to it. The documentary process is completely legal. Its more of a loop hole that I have found ...
Thanks for following and sending through your words of advice and help!
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