Moorings

McKellar asked Leeper how he would deal with the issue of new and old moorings, and how to make the moorings useful.

Additionally, damage from anchoring, moorings and dredging has impacted the country’s seagrass beds.

Boats must weigh no more than 15 tonnes to berth on a mooring, and visitors are responsible for ensuring that their vessel is suitably moored and does not interfere with other moorings or vessels.

Briant had a simple message to owners with vessels at moorings or marinas: inspect and maintain your boats regularly.

Councillors said the proposal for a new 42-space private car park for residents and moorings-holders would reduce access to the area of outstanding natural beauty and urbanise an unspoilt location.

First, there is the army with its coercive capabilities, institutional moorings, and allies in the Bhuttos and Sharifs.

If the use of the moorings is changed, it will also help meet the demand for additional space for Bargee Travellers, with the council estimating there is a need for 50 berths for the waterborne Gypsy and Traveller community.

In the South Dock the 4000 ton collier Bearwood broke from her moorings and was blown 700ft from one side of the dock to the other.

It’s a large network of moorings and sensors that provides 4D eyes on the oceans – the fourth dimension being time – that are always on, always connected to monitor these carbon cycling processes and ocean health.

Safely home – Buckie lifeboat nudges the stricken yacht to her moorings at Lossiemouth Harbour.

Such a process could help officials identify unused moorings and other related issues.

These particular pilings, according to Robertson, were once used as moorings for logs floating down the river during Marysville’s mill town heyday.

Arisaig Marina – which estate agents say is already a “highly profitable” business – includes 70 moorings, a jetty and three slipways, an industrial building used for boat repairs and an open plan cafe and gift shop.

Currently, the only serviced moorings for houseboat living is in Sallins in Kildare, at Shannon Harbour, and also Grand Canal Dock in Dublin.

I mean, let’s be clear, unlike most of our services, encroachments and moorings are not really necessary services.

It is the first team, in a sense, that Adofo-Mensah and O’Connell have built free of the moorings from the Vikings’ past.

Louise Darch, one of Somerset Council’s planning officers, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service in October 2023: “We want to look at the redevelopment of the docks for leisure and residential moorings.

The moorings in question at Slaithwaite are at full capacity so it isn’t an option to declare that as a mooring.

Towing vessels are seen near a barge that seemingly came loose from its moorings near Vancouver's Sunset Beach on Tuesday.

While no standard distance between moorings is established, a safe operational space should be maintained between vessels, according to the agency.