River trust installs 15 new mooring spots

05/Jan/2010

By Phynea Papal, Guardian Express

Comments: 4 readers have left a comment

New short stay courtesy moorings are identified by a red buoy. There are 32 in all.

THE Swan River Trust has installed 15 new moorings, thus giving river users more short stay access.

Identified with red buoys, the moorings take the number of courtesy mooring spots provided by the Trust to 32.

Trust Riverpark Manager Chris Mather said the moorings would help address a shortage of short stay mooring sites in the rivers.

“It’s convenient for boat owners because they do not have to use their own anchor, and that’s good for the riverbed and shoreline,” he said.

The new moorings have been installed near popular spots on the river around Mends Street Jetty in South Perth, Blackwall Reach in Bicton, Maylands, Mosman Bay and around Ron Courtney Island.

Boaters can stay on the moorings for up to four hours on a “first come” basis.

Mr Mather said boat users were also reminded of a temporary speed restriction of 6 knots in the Swan River near the Old Swan Brewery between the Narrows Bridge and Point Quarry until river walling upgrades are completed.

What everyone else is thinking

AIR

22/04/2010

Boaties keen to get from Swan Waters up to Sandalford etc could learn from
Perth Cyclists,
- the driving speed for cars will usually get them there much sooner.
Driving on the road network does not cause the wash to errode both sides of entire river edge - that has made the rebuilding of the Mounts Bay seawall such a burden on City of Perth Ratepayers..
In the old days such costs did not happen, - its only since all the powerboats started zapping up down, and around about - (jetskis in particular..)

gazza

08/04/2010

For John Webb...I too agree that the courtesy moorings are great. What I would ask though is WHY the colour red? Should not the emergency moorings available to broken down [ temporarily] boats be that colour...The courtesy ones should be green. Red indicates a warning somehow...for some strange reason the emergency ones are white...and make sure you read the attached notice...and thankfully I have had a situation arise where I was granted permission to use a WHITE one , yet to get permission it was necessary to personally visit the D.O.T moorings office in Fremantle...open office hours 9-5 weekdays...and is it widely known that the SWAN RIVER AUTHORITY , a faceless quango, dictates to the D.O.T. moorings, who police said policy, have ceased allowing swing moorings, forcing boat owners into expensive marinas and forcing up the resale value of EXISTING swing moorings...
Has the department investigated overseas systems of fore and aft river moorings with dinghy access included...???

diane

29/03/2010

If the boat population in perth is growing why are marina costs so high for the average boat owners. there are boat owners joing fishing clubs to put their boats in because they cannot afford marina fees. cockburn sound should have these short stay moorings for the boat owners of Rockingham and surrounding areas. In cockburn sound there are a lot of permanent moorings which are depleating the seagrasses. Some of these moorings are owned by people living north of the river because they cannot affort marina fees. only a third of all these moored boats in cockburn sound wound be used in a 12 month period. we also need more boat ramps for boat people.

john webb

13/02/2010

Hi the Red moorings are great, With a growing boat population in Perth the days of one owner using ( or just hollding onto a mooring ) have past. The User System a rotto needs to be adopted for the river sooner than later. It works, its easy and there is min cost.
I would love to have feed back on my comments
regards John