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Front cover: The Monte Carlo waterfront in Monaco teems with boats, much like the rest of the country’s small coastline.

With 215 yachts on average per kilometre, it probably houses the highest density of vessels per kilometre of coastline of any country in the world. Concentrating vessels in marinas – especially those that jut out into waterspace – is to be encouraged as it helps preserve coastlines says Camper & Nicholsons Marinas chairman, Nick Maris. Read more on p.39 3

WORLD NEWS

Good results for Ingemar

Goolwa Lock opens for Holiday Season AUSTRALIA: The Department of Water, Land and Biodiversity Conservation (DWLBC) opened Goolwa Lock in Goolwa, South Australia in time for the Christmas/New Year holiday break. The long awaited opening gives boaters safe access to the waters of the Coorong. ago by using pumps to shift the salt water back Randal Cooper, proprietor of Goolwa Masts into the Coorong during each lockage.” and Welding, who has become a somewhat “It’s such a simple solution that can iconic figure during the battle to open the hopefully bring back life to Goolwa for tourists lock, commented: “It has taken three years to and boaties alike,” he added. achieve what the Greeks used to do 2000 years

Eco-friendly choice for Quebec marinas

CANADA: Poralu Marine Canada has completed two marinas on the 42km long Lake Memphremagog in Quebec.

First is the Capitainerie de l’Emeraude project, a marina that adds the final touch to a luxury development of 16 condominiums.

Offering 95 berths for boats of 615m in length, the marina comprises 40m of fixed pontoons and two floating pontoon arms of 110m. The arms have 45 finger pontoons.

The system was constructed using Poralu’s Manta line aluminium pontoon with its distinctive curved finger end and innovative products such as the Manta fender and mega bumper (see Products & Services p.49).

Capitainerie de l’Emeraude recently signed up for the eco-marinas programme drawn up in 2007 byAMQ, Quebec’s maritime association. This programme, which has attracted the commitment of 30 marinas in the region, encourages environmentally sound 25th-28th January 2009 marina construction and management.

Further to completion of the project, Poralu Go to www.marinaassociation.org/imbc commenced construction of a small marina for any information you need for the for Owl’s Head, a private holiday club. The first serious marina event of 2009 project provided 35 berths for small and – the International Marina & Boatyard medium sized boats at aluminium framed, Conference in Ft Lauderdale, Florida, polypropylene decked pontoons with elements USA. also incorporated from the Manta line.

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ITALY: Maritime engineering company Ingemar closed 2008 with a group turnover of more than €10 million.

Last year saw the consolidation of technical partnerships with boat shows in Genoa and Venice and the start of a new collaboration with the Fiume Boat Show as well as the construction of numerous floating installations in ports and marinas in Italy and overseas, especially on the island of Crete and in Montenegro.

Ingemar starts 2009 with a good portfolio of orders. In Italy it has projects to enlarge the marina at Jesolo; install floating breakwaters in Como; complete floating pontoons and breakwaters for a tourist port in Sapri; and supply a floating structure for a new public ferry service at La Grazie-Portovenere in the bay of La Spezia. Internationally, it has ongoing work in Greece and Croatia and ‘solid prospects’ for new installations in Algeria, Kuwait and Tunisia.

Although the last quarter of 2008 was unaffected by the global financial situation, Ingemar president Lorenzo Isalberti is realistic about the coming year. “We can expect to see a general slowing down of work in the near future and in particular for assignments in the private residential sector linked to new port installations,” he said.

Swift take up for Marinas 2009 AUSTRALIA: Marinas 2009, the Australasian marina conference hosted by the Marina Industries Association of Australia is shaping up to be an outstanding event.

“Take up of exhibition space is well above the commitment expected by this time,” says conference organising committee chairman, Mike Harvey. “Marinas 2009 will be the largest marina conference ever held this side of the equator.”

Exhibitors committed to date include: Bellingham Marine, Superior Jetties, Poralu Marine, Marine Travelift, D K Putt Pty (Waubaushene), Marathon Products, Marine Technologies, Automated Marine Technologies, Premier Materials, Marina Focus, Barnacle Guard, Pollution Solutions, Gold Coast City Marina, government agencies and Marina World.

Delegate registration for the conference is available on www.marinas2009.com with early bird registration until 15th March. The conference brochure detailing the major speakers and sessions will be published in February and also available online.

Marinas 2009 will be held 24th-27th May, Surfers Paradise, Queensland.

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Attention to detail As we start 2009 it’s as well to remind ourselves of the continuous strides forward we make each year in improving our marina facilities and our customer service. Maintaining this level of attention to detail will be paramount in coming months as we battle with troubled economies but keeping plans on track where possible and carefully thinking through the implications of cut-backs could be the wisest way to keep our customers.

As Tim Mason of ATM suggests in his article on p. 29, now is not the time to scrap plans or abandon maintenance programmes – unless you seriously have no choice. It might, however, be a good time to think extra carefully about genuine improvements you can make to your marina and an opportunity to assess marina equipment on a global rather than local level.

Every year equipment manufacturers hone and expand their product portfolios offering more choice and greater flexibility. The current choice of pontoon decking material, for example, is revolutionary in comparison with the options of 20 years ago, drystack technology advances year on year and the best manufacturers – of all kinds of marina related equipment – are never idle.

2008 had its share of development and innovation. Latvian company Pildne introduced a salt water Floating Fuel Station, Martini Marinas released an array of new pontoon accessories and Solent Marine unveiled the Simbro modular pontoon system. Marina Accessories developed the Trash Skimmer, Boat Bunkers added a marketing boost to its Mooring Station concept and Austrian company Fuhrmann Erodiertechnik put its thoroughly tested new vessel docking system – DualDocker – into production.

Dockside pedestal specialists have particularly active R&D departments and last year saw the introduction of the SEM6 range of pedestals from Sureline and the new VX series from Electro-Tec. Rolec Services undertook a major expansion programme to fast track manufacture and delivery, introduced a new range of products including LED deck and underwater lighting and launched yet another new pedestal family. Swedish manufacturer, Marinamatur, unveiled a series of 12 pedestal models and Marine Technologies of Australia released its new Platinum range for big yachts at the Sanctuary Cove Boat Show. Eaton Marina Power & Lighting of the US also focused most particularly on the big yacht sector by introducing a phase converter that enables marinas to safely and efficiently provide large yachts from all over the globe with dockside power.

Marina managers had interesting input too. Bryan and Eric Church of Bartlett Lake Marina in Arizona made their Boat Club Manager rental fleet management software available commercially and Jean-Michel Gaigné of SaintQuay Port d’Armor, France shared a clever ‘best profit’ idea with his ‘grab my ladder, live forever’ concept. Just attach ‘sponsored’ fluorescent spinnaker cloth to accessible boat swimming ladders to give overboards a potential lifeline.

We look forward now to the new products of 2009…

Happy New Year!

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Fast track completion for luxury resort

USA: A rundown marina in Naples, Florida has been transformed into a luxurious nine-acre resort with private condominiums, a four-star hotel, 33,000 square feet of retail space and a 97-slip full service marina designed and built by Bellingham Marine (BMI).

“Construction of the new marina dock modules were incorporated. presented unique challenges for our Construction of the property began in crew,” said BMI construction manager late October 2007 after numerous delays Neil Davis. “Every square inch of the related to local permits and work space property including the marina area was on site. It was reported that, at times, maximised and we were on a fast track more than 20 different contractors with timeline.” over 200 workers were on the property.

Featuring a fuel dock, in-slip pumpParking, material storage and just out and 50 amp 110/220 power supply, walking around presented a challenge the marina was designed to match the for the work crews. flow of the angled basin to optimise The completed resort has space and allow for adequate backing Mediterranean style architecture with and clear water widths. Uniquely shaped bold colours and careful attention to detail. The marina accommodates private boats as well as charter boats for sightseeing and fishing.

NYMA joins AMI for NMD

USA: The Association of Marina Industries (AMI) has partnered with The National Youth Marine Alliance (NYMA) for this year’s National Marina Day (NMD), to be held on 8th August.

NYMA invites all marinas to participate in ‘Preserve America’s Waterways’, a national initiative to help every marina operator host a youth service project to keep waterways clean. AMI formed the partnership in recognition of the important role marinas play in encouraging children to appreciate waterways and enhance their awareness of sensitive waters and waterfront environments.

Although ‘Preserve America’s Waterways’ is an official part of National Marina Day, marinas may schedule a clean-up day at any time from March to December. The process to sign up is easy and costs nothing.

For further information, email Tom Griffin, project coordinator for NYMA on captkid@cox.net

Register now for UK marina Conference UK: Registration for the UK Marina Managers 2009 Conference (13th14th May) is now open with early bird special deals available until 31st January. The conference is spread over two consecutive days, including a conference dinner, at the Marriot hotel in the historic naval town of Portsmouth.

Accountancy guru, Peter Czapp, will give an interactive keynote presentation ‘Seven Steps to Marketing Success’, which will highlight what your marketing should achieve for your business and uncover hidden opportunities.

Further conference topics include: carbon neutral initiatives; industry updates; WRAS regulations; and CMM best profit ideas.

The conference is organised by the British Marine Federation in association with the UK CMM Group and is sponsored by Walcon Marine.

Further information is available from Deidre Williams on email: dwilliams@britishmarine.co.uk

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Amendment 6 provides big boon for US marina businesses

Papagayo welcomes megayachts COSTA RICA: Full-service five-star facility, Marina Papagayo, welcomed its first megayachts on 15th December. An official marina powerboat escorted the first vessel into port as a ceremonial gesture of goodwill to yachtsmen.

With its stunning backdrop of mountains northwestern province of Guancaste on the and rainforests, and immediate access to deep shores of the Pacific Ocean. blue ocean, Marina Papagayo earns five stars The marina, with an initial 180 wet slips, for location, and managers, Brandy Marine welcomed several yachtsmen who had International, have put all their efforts into reserved slips. The average boat arriving in ensuring the facilities and services measure December was 110 feet in length and visiting up equally well. “Marina Papagayo is a truly yachts included a 164ft tri-deck Westport significant achievement for Brandy Marine, motor yacht on its maiden voyage. for Peninsula Papagayo, for Costa Rica and At build-out, anticipated by 2012, the $15 for the yachting and sport fishing community million marina will have 350 wet slips for that travels the world,” said Brandy Marine yachts of 35-240 feet in length. Brandy Marine performed feasibility studies, and designed and president and CEO, Bruce Blomgren. assisted in overseeing the construction of the Brandy Marine has been involved in Marina marina’s ShoreMaster floating dock system.

Papagayo since the initial planning and design phases in 2003. It now manages the facility, which is the nautical centrepiece of the highend luxury resort Peninsula Papagayo, in the

5 Gold Anchors for Deganwy Quays UK: Deganwy Quays Marina in Wales has received 5 Gold Anchor certification from The Yacht Harbour Association. The marina joins four other facilities in the Quay Marinas portfolio to have secured the five star rating.

“We are delighted that Deganwy has achieved this high level endorsement of facility and customer service,” commented Quay Marinas managing director, Simon Haigh CMM. “We hope that our customers will recognise this award as a clear indication of our commitment to them in providing the best possible levels of facility and service. The award is also a testament to the hard work and commitment of our manager Julie Jones and her team at the marina.”

Nakheel in ‘float’ discussions

UAE: According to reports in London’s Daily Telegraph, Nakheel – owner and developer of iconic projects like The Palms and The World in Dubai – is considering a stock market listing to raise as much as US$15 billion to reinforce its finances.

According to the newspaper, bankers at J P Morgan have been working on various stock market options although the timing of the move has not been decided.

At the end of November 2008, Nakheel made approximately 500 of its employees redundant (around 15% of its total workforce).

“We have the responsibility to adjust our short term business plans to accommodate the current global environment,” said a spokesman.

“The redundancies are indeed regrettable but a necessity dictated by operational requirements which are in turn dependent on demand.”

Nakheel also announced that it would scale back work on some of its projects.

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USA: With a resounding 70% majority, Florida voters passed Amendment 6, which requires tax assessors in Florida to appraise waterfront land on its current use rather than ‘highest and best use’. This reduces financial stress and burden on marine-related businesses, while maintaining the public’s access to water.

Despite views that local revenues would suffer and a fear that state legislature could define its own terms on the tax breaks a working waterfront may receive, the grassroots efforts of a coalition called ‘Save Our Waterfront’ comprised of associations, businesses and even tax assessors were successful in pushing the agenda through.

One such local activist was Frank Herhold, executive director of the Marine Industries Association of Florida.

“Florida as a state demonstrated that public access to waterfront is a big priority,” states Herhold. “Amendment 6 passed with the highest majority of any of the six other constitutional amendments on the ballot.”

Many waterfront towns and cities in the United States, and presumably around the world, have watched as condo development and restaurants have taken hold of the working waterfronts and the public’s access to recreational and commercial boating, as well as fisheries management. Small marinas have, in many cases, given way to private, high-end land use and luxury condos.

With this new measure, generally reserved for agricultural land, waterfront businesses will be less likely to buckle under high taxes based on surrounding land use, which allows these marine-related business owners to hold onto their shops rather than sell them to developers who may or may not have the public’s access to water as a main concern.

Amendment 6 simply states the following marine venues and working waterfronts will be taxed at the property’s current use: • Marinas and docks open to the public for water access and recreational uses • Public vessel launches into navigable inland and coastal waterways • Commercial fishing facilities • Water-dependent marine manufacturing facilities • Marine vessel construction and repair facilities According to Save Our Waterfronts, each year, Florida’s marine industry contributes more than $18 billion to Florida’s economy and provides 220,000 jobs.

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As most people in the world already know, President-Elect Barack Obama was voted the 44th president of the United States on 4th November 2008. With the historic election now behind us, eyes and ears in the United States marine industry are focused on the future of US legislation. Many in the industry - from association directors to company owners and presidents - are taking a public ‘wait and see’ attitude while privately expressing views that range between cautiously optimistic and downright concerned. Sarah Devlin highlights some point to ponder

President-Elect Obama has indicated a willingness to ‘reach across the aisle’ and maintain as even-keeled a cabinet as he can, as evidenced by retaining Robert Gates as Defense Secretary and appointing General James Jones, a former McCain campaigner and NATO supreme commander, as national security advisor.

The ‘blogosphere’ is pulsating as political pundits and commentators discuss ad nauseum what may or may not be in the future. On the one side, the political cognoscente are so hopeful and idealistic about change they are unwilling to recognise the level of compromise necessary for any real change to occur in the political machine and institution currently in place in Washington DC. On the other side, those in the know are carefully monitoring every move and cabinet appointment to make sure current rights remain intact and the floundering economy officially begins to improve.

In these waning days before the inauguration and as the US approaches President–Elect Obama’s first 100 days—a presidential honeymoon, as it were, when any new president is pushing legislation based on

political capital and goodwill—there is a great deal of proposed legislation for us all to wade through.

With the new president not yet inaugurated and, as I write this, his cabinet not fully nominated, people are unwilling to speak publicly about the new administration. What we are able to do is compile documentation as a base for evaluating some of the off-record comments surrounding this article.

The marina industry in the US primarily comprises a network of small businesses. At the centre of that network sits the Association of Marina Industries (AMI), which in part keeps a watchful eye on legislation that may or may not affect the small businesses in its constituency and membership. At the time this article was being written, AMI was busily sifting through the documentation and paperwork circling around the Obama camp.

One possibility worth noting pertains to the future of the Small Business Administration (SBA), a government agency that provides support to small businesses in the US in the form of loans and investments. Three-term Maine Senator Olympia Snowe - a ranking member of the US Senate Committee on Small

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Business & Entrepreneurship - recently called upon the Obama administration to bring the SBA into its official cabinet alongside Treasury Secretary and Commerce Secretary nominees Timothy Geithner and former US presidential candidate Bill Richardson, respectively, as well as Economic Advisor Larry Summers. When the SBA was part of President Bill Clinton’s cabinet in the 1990s, it resulted in bringing venture capital and small-business assistance to both rural and inner-city areas. A spot on the cabinet during Obama’s administration - or any presidential administration - elevates the voice of the SBA, the budget of which has fallen 27% since 2001, according to Senator Snowe’s proposal.

Regarding others in the small-business arena, Karen Kerrigan, president and CEO of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship (SBE) council has commented: “I am hopeful that the new President will offer small business owners and entrepreneurs a voice at his policy-making table as our nation has become increasingly dependent on this sector to get our economy rolling again.”

“From taxes, to healthcare reform and regulatory initiatives, the inclusion of entrepreneurs in the policy development process will help produce a better overall result in such policies. In the end, the consideration of small business needs will only accelerate the capacity for our sector to innovate, create jobs, invest and provide our workforce with the health care, salaries and other benefits that they so richly deserve.”

Also, the National Small Business Association (NSBA), while wary in the early days after the election, is publicly supporting President-Elect Obama’s focus on boosting the faltering US economy, and ‘urges the administration to enact pro small-business policies in the road to recovery.’

As part of his campaign, President-Elect Obama put forth several proposals. Of particular interest is a nationwide emergencylending facility for small businesses. Modelled on post-9/11 actions taken to restructure injured business, the SBA would lend directly to small businesses that cannot access other sources of capital. The facility would be run through the SBA Disaster Loan Program, which is designed to offer affordable, fixedrate loans to small firms in order to meet operating expenses, undertake necessary shortterm investments or refinance debt. Loans should be available on an expedited basis so that firms can access the credit needed to meet their operating expenses immediately.

Obama is also calling to expand the SBA’s key loan guarantee programmes by temporarily eliminating fees for borrowers and lenders and

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All small businesses are affected by the economy, tax legislation, environmental legislation, health care, employment compensation, business loans, etc. What can small businesses that live and work in the recreational field possibly expect from a new president? And what are many associations and businesses asking this new president to accomplish? To speculate too much would be foolhardy and to cover all legislation as it pertains to small business would take up too much room. Here, we briefly cover the most often-mentioned topics related to taxation and healthcare.

While we were unable to get people to talk on record, many voiced a concern that an Obama administration will raise capital gains and small-business-related taxes. As of this writing, the published plan was for an Obama president to reduce the tax burdens on small businesses by eliminating all capital gains taxes on small and startup businesses to encourage innovation and job creation. They also claim they will provide a $500 ‘Making Work Pay’ tax credit to almost every worker in America.

Self-employed small business owners currently pay both the employee and the employer side of the payroll tax. This measure, if approved, could reduce the burdens of this double taxation.

Another proposal from the Obama administration is an extension to tax code section 179, which allows businesses to deduct the full purchase price of qualifying equipment from its gross income. This creates incentive for businesses to invest in equipment and in themselves - a highly desirable tax code for those running a small marina, for instance.

As part of the economic stimulus package last year, the deduction in tax code 179 was increased from $125,000 to $250,000 for purchases made in 2008. According to Bill Rys of the National Federation of Independent Business in an interview with Karen Klein at Business Week, “In 2003, when the limit was $25,000 and it was increased to $100,000, IRS data showed that the amount of depreciation deductions taken in that year represented the largest increase ever. So a lot of businesses did make investments in equipment during that year, based on IRS stats, and anytime you increase those limits, it’s certainly helpful for small businesses in particular.”

Rys did add, however, he was concerned that, in the US’s current floundering economy, small

businesses may not have money to make major investments. In other words, the incentive extension may be moot unless it’s extended even further.

With the nomination of former Senator Tom Daschle as Secretary of Health and Human Services, some have voiced the opinion that the Obama administration will require companies with fewer than 50 employees to provide healthcare and other benefits to their employees.

The President-Elect has asserted from the beginning that he intends to create a system that provides affordable healthcare to small businesses. For people who own a small business in the US, it’s no secret that in order to maintain a strong work force, you must offer competitive wages and benefits.

One such benefit is healthcare coverage. But the cost of providing coverage to one employee, in some states, can cost as much as $1600 per month.

The Obama administration contends it will work toward providing small businesses with access to a low-cost national health exchange. Stated more simply, a pool of small businesses would benefit as one entity from the types of discounts and risk management typically available to much larger companies. According to the Wall Street Journal, while providing coverage to employees will not be mandatory, companies that do not provide coverage will be taxed on a portion of their payroll.

Another proposal includes something that is often called ‘reinsurance’. If President-Elect Obama and his staff are successful in their vision, small businesses will be reimbursed on their employer health plans for a portion of the catastrophic costs they incur above a threshold if they guarantee that the savings they incur are passed on to reduce the cost of their workers’ premiums.

One thing to monitor is an Obama proposal to increase coverage for children under State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), a US government agency that provides health insurance coverage to qualifying families with children. In 2007, two proposals passed through Congress to expand the existing coverage from an average of $5 billion annually to about $12 billion over a period of five years. President Bush vetoed these proposals, but there’s a good chance this will pass under Obama as president.

For a small marina, this could potentially ease the financial burden of providing such a benefit. It does raise the question among some,

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however, of whether companies that have employers who qualify for SCHIP will then be responsible for the new health insurance tax. At the very least, this could be fodder for those who choose to argue against the plan.

It comes down to best practices for reform balanced with best practices for a small business.

Until associations and small business owners have had time

to process the policies and proposals coming out of the President-Elect’s administration, the general wait-and-see attitude exhibited by members of the marina industry is probably a good idea. Once the cabinet is approved and we’re in the first 100 days, we can rely on more solid information and have the wealth of ‘100 day’ passed legislation to ponder.

Firework party to launch Port Louis GRENADA: The Grenadian Minister of Tourism, Hon. Peter David has described Camper & Nicholsons Marinas (C&NM) as an important partner in the development of the island. Speaking at the opening party of Port Louis Marina on 20th December, Minister David praised both public and private sectors for their partnership in developing the yachting industry.

The event, which was followed by one of the largest fireworks displays ever seen on Grenada, was organised to officially open the first stage of superyacht berths. The marina can now accommodate 30 superyacht berths in excess of 30m in length and, when complete, will have nearly 400 berths for vessels of 10 to 90m – including 73 superyacht berths (25m+).

Alongside the marina will be an exclusive maritime village. The Peter de Savary project will include individual houses, residential units, a luxurious 5star hotel, world class premier spa and wellbeing lifestyle centre, restaurants, bars Hon. Peter David and duty-free boutiques.

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2008: Bigger boat slips and greener practices Looking back on 2008, we see continued global efforts to create dedicated berthing for super and megayachts, further innovation in drystack design and construction, and heightened emphasis on environmental best practices. National Marina Day, held in the USA on 9th August and coordinated by the Association of Marina Industries (AMI), was a resounding success as were key industry conferences – IMBC, Atlanta (January), UK Marina Managers Conference (April) and IMC, Belgium (May).

2008 saw an excellent start for boat and trade shows with both London and Dusseldorf boat shows kicking off the year with good a t t e n d a n c e fi g u r e s , I M B C attracting its highest ever level of exhibitors and the Dubai Boat Show (March) boasting a 20% overall increase in size and an 11% increase in visitor numbers. As the year progressed and the global financial crisis picked up and hit home, organisers of major events feared the worse. Attendance at events such as the Monaco, Genoa and Ft Lauderdale boat shows and METS Amsterdam was, however, much better than expected.

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Marina development surged in eastern Europe – both to the north and in the Mediterranean. Martini Marinas of Italy completed phase one of a floating pontoon

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marina in Romania. Poralu partner company, Marina Systems, meanwhile worked on Balchik Marina, which – at 250 berths – is set to become the largest marina on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast. The project is part of a tourist development programme called Marina City and the remaining berths should be completed this year.

Bellamer Marinas of Finland started work on a new 300-berth facility – Dniprovska Wharf Yacht Club – in Kiev, Ukraine. Part of an upmarket retail and entertainment centre, it represents the first large multi-use ‘international standard’ project in the city. The first phase of 150 berths was installed late last year and phase two should complete by the close of the second quarter this year.

In the eastern Mediterranean, Marina Preko opened on the Dalmatian island of Ugljanu, Croatia, offering 87 berths for vessels up to 20m long and three exclusive alongside berths for superyachts, and US company Island Global Yachting (IGY) entered into a joint venture partnership with Nautical Center Prgin to develop Croatia’s first dedicated megayacht marina in the coastal town of Sibenik.

Plans for a new marina resort Valencia Yacht Basin, Spain, set within the impressive Valencia marina site is now open for superyacht mooring.

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GLOBAL REVIEW Cesme Marina, Turkey, is being developed by C&NM into a key luxury yachting hub in the eastern Mediterranean.

near the town of Tivat in Montenegro were also announced. Named Porto Montenegro, the project is being designed as a premier Mediterranean destination for superyachts and is being built on the site of a decommissioned naval base in the Bay of Kotor, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Plans are to create a thriving town with a strong residential community and designs reflect local historic architecture. The major focal point will be a 250-berth marina.

Work on a 450-berth marina was scheduled to start last October in the picturesque town of Kas in the heart of the Turkish Riviera. The facility is being developed as a Build-OperateTransfer project for the Ministry of Transport

by Makyol, a leading Turkish property developer. Kas Marina is being designed by Artu and a soft opening is predicted for late this year.

Further development is also ongoing at Cesme Marina near Izmir following the Turkish government’s agreement to hand the facility over to Camper & Nicholsons Marinas (C&NM). C&NM already has experience of operating marinas in Turkey with Port Göcek and will now work on transforming the 180berth Cesme facility into a key luxury hub in the eastern Med. In nearby Greece, Flisovos Marina in Athens created a first for the country by achieving both ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001:2004 certification from Lloyd’s Register, and developments continued apace in Italy too.

Ingemar won the prestigious turnkey marina contract for the new Marina di Loana near Genoa on the Italian Riviera. The contract included a 780berth system of floating pontoons and fingers and 300 fixed dockside berths.

A significant part of the project should complete this year. The company also scooped up the contract for the new marina at Imperia, which involves integrating almost all of the existing maritime structures within the historic Porto Maurizio into a new design with two inner marina basins. A total of

1,296 berths will be installed to create a key facility on the Ligurian Riviera.

Change also took place at European industry associations. ASSOIPTA, the association for Adriatic ports and harbours extended its membership to all coastal marinas and tourist related businesses throughout Italy and was renamed ASSOMARINAS. While Roberto Perocchio remains as president of ASSOMARINAS, Andrew Jaggers CMM, manager of Bangor Marina in Northern Ireland stepped in to take the chair of another European association – TransEurope Marinas.

Jaggers took over from Jean-Michel Gaigné CMM, managing director of Saint-Quay Port d’Armor in Brittany, France.

Northern Europe had its share of marina developments. Poralu began work on a marina in the Breton seaside resort of Saint-Cast-leGuildo with a view to replacing a mooring arrangement for 210 boats with a deep water marina offering year-round access for 739 boats.

And, in Germany, – following an installation project that lasted just one month – Sassnitz City Marina on the island of Rügen opened in time to benefit from the tail end of the short northern European boating season. Built by Bellamer, the facility is the first luxury marina in the area with

a complete range of services and access to popular cruising grounds.

In Denmark, CC-Design worked with Marinetek on a major 1200-berth project to rebuild the Svanemollehavnen in the heart of Copenhagen, and in the UK Saul Marina opened and work started on Port Falmouth. Saul Marina, at the junction of the Stroudwater and Gloucester & Sharpness canals offers 284 berths. A swift take up of moorings was reported, reflecting the serious lack of berths on the UK’s popular inland waterways. Falmouth Marina, Cornwall, is part of a major regeneration plan for Falmouth Docks being undertaken by A&P Group and will include berthing for superyachts.

UK operator Marina Developments (MDL) also put the finishing touches to its first overseas facility – Sant Carles Marina in Spain. Boats started to arrive at the marina following the opening of an 840-berth first phase in the summer months. Another Spanish highlight opening took place at Valencia Yacht Base (VYB), a 236-berth superyacht marina designed to be the best of its kind in the western Mediterranean. VYB used the Monaco Boat Show as launch pad for its marketing campaign. Dedicated to yachts of 20-120m in length, the marina has a Bellingham Marine (BMI) floating concrete pontoon system and offers a comprehensive array of services.

Middle East countries were, as usual, abuzz with plans for ambitious projects. Although many mooted developments include very modestly sized marinas, some larger facilities are also gradually coming on line. Master plans were approved for the 400-berth Marina Durrat Al Bahrain, part of a seaside resort of manmade islands that will be the first mixed use marina development of its kind in the Middle East and further progress was also made with the west basin of Nakheel Marinas’ Anchor Marina on Palm Jumeirah and at Dubai Maritime City.

The latter projects feature Marinetek pontoons and Rolec dockside pedestals.

When complete, Balchik Marina will become the biggest marina on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast.

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GLOBAL REVIEW New industry player, IMDM, bought Hope Harbour in Queensland, Australia, to kick start a global marina portfolio.

Emaar Hospitality Group, meanwhile, opened Yacht Club Marina – its second marina – and Dubai Marina Yacht Club as continued development of Dubai Marina. The Yacht Club Marina, with 135 berths for power boats of 935m in length, is the second of four marinas expected to be complete this year. The further two, Marina Mall Waterfront and West Marina will ultimately host a further 600 yachts.

Australasia and S E Asia

Environmental issues were at the forefront of much Australian thinking in 2008 especially following the launch on 20th May of The Low Carbon Marina Initiative. Devised by the Marina Industries Association of Australia (MIAA), the initiative has set a goal to reduce the operational carbon footprint of Australian marinas by 20% by 2015. Marinas around the country, and suppliers such as Superior Marinas and Bellingham Marine, were quick to commit to participation. Soldiers Point Marina in Port Stephens, New South Wales, became the first certified carbon neutral marina.

The MIAA and the Marina Operators Association of New Zealand were also honoured as the first recipients of awards in ICOMIA’s newly introduced Clean Marinas Programme.

Notable marina developments included the opening of the first marina in Samoa, progress at last with Whangamata Marina in New Zealand and the arrival of new industry player International Marina Developments

& Management (IMDM) in Australia.

Headed up by Craig Gore, IMDM made its initial foray into the marina sector by purchasing Hope Harbour in Queensland from developer John Fish. The company also bought Townsville Breakwater Marina and the rights to develop Townsville Future Development Area from ailing venture City Pacific. Gore’s plan is to establish a global marina portfolio.

Significant new marinas came on line in

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China – in Qingdao and Shanghai. In Qingdao, Poralu Marine spent two months extending Yinhai Marina to offer 154 berths for vessels of 10-30m in length so as to create the venue for the 2008 Olympic Games sailing events. In Shanghai, Poralu also built a customised system involving sliding bridges to create a small marina on the Suzhou Creek River, which links up with the River Yangtze. The company also secured its first order in South Korea completing a 20-berth marina in Yangyang.

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GLOBAL REVIEW Yinhai Marina, China, was extended to host the sailing events of the 2008 Olympic Games.

Nine Dragons Marina Club also opened in the outskirts of Shanghai. Described by designer Emmanuel Delarue as the first integrated marina in mainland China, the facility features a club house, undercover storage for 50 boats and will ultimately have 294 wet berths for boats of 8 to 25m. The project combines golf course, polo club, Westin hotel and spa, high-end apartments and luxurious private villas on manmade islands. Delarue was also instrumental in the development of Dameisha Marina, a project that is transforming a stagnant pond into a 175-berth marina with a further 110 berths for jet skis.

The spotlight in Singapore was on Marina at Keppel Bay, named Best New Asian Marina/ Yacht Club of the Year at the Christofle Asia Boating Awards 2008. Eight marinas from Dubai, China, Thailand and Singapore were nominated. Located on the private Keppel Island, the marina will ultimately have 170 slips including individual berths for megayachts up to 250 feet.

Developments were also reported in Malaysia where PMM Malaysia, commercial dealer for Superior Marinas of Australia, commenced work on a major project in Port Klang. The company installed a 150-berth Superior system in the west port area on the island of Pulau Indah on behalf of the Marine Department of Malaysia. The marina will be one of the largest in the country and may be Apia Marina is the first marina to be built in Samoa. A second phase is planned.

operated and managed by the Royal Selangor Yacht Club. PMM Malaysia is also finalising a marina in Kuching (Sarawak).

Americas and Caribbean

A highlight in the USA was the signing of the Clean Boating Act 2008 and the lowlight was indisputably Hurricane Ike. President Bush signed the Clean Boating Act on 30th July to permanently restore recreational boats from permitting requirements under the Clean Water Act. The move followed a two-year campaign by legislators and industry associations to encourage government to scrap the programme. If lobbying had been unsuccessful, the permit would have dictated maintenance and operation procedures, subjected boaters to potential citizen lawsuits and put recreational boaters under a penalty system designed to punish industrial polluters.

A month or so later, despite a milder than average hurricane season, the industry took the knock of Hurricane Ike, which hit Texas in September and proceeded to devastate parts of Galveston, through Houston, up into Indiana and over to New York. Marinas experienced severe damage.

On a far brighter note, many impressive marina refurbishments were completed, significant studies undertaken and new marinas completed.

Old Port Cove Marina in North Palm Beach, Florida, completed

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the first part of a multi-million dollar refurbishment designed to accommodate megayachts and give them first time access to the Palm Beaches. The project followed similar renovation plans at both its North Palm Beach Marina and New Port Cove Marina Center in Riviera Beach.

A $7 million expansion and renovation of Corpus Christi Marina in Corpus Christi, Texas, was also completed – by Atlantic-Meeco.

The facility, which hosts the Texas International Boat Show, is the largest municipal marina in the state offering 700 slips in the state’s deepest draft basin. It was the first Clean Marina in Texas, has seen valuable oyster beds and shrimp catches restored, and welcomed the return of brown and white pelicans and endangered whooping cranes.

One of many new projects undertaken by Bellingham Marine, which celebrated its 50th year in 2008, was a new installation at Glorietta Bay Marina in Coronado, California. The marina was reconfigured for larger vessels but carefully designed so as to retain its original complement of 61 slips. The project included a number of innovative features such as uniquely shaped modules with dog-legs in many walkways and also incorporated the development of a 17,500 sq ft eelgrass habitat.

BMI also played its part in the construction of Hamilton Harbor Yacht Club in Naples, Florida, which was finally completed last year when a one-of-a-kind concrete boathouse opened for business. Constructed by GCM Contracting Solutions of Fort Myers using the tilt-up construction method, the giant drystack can withstand winds of up to 150 miles per hour and accommodates boats up to 50 feet long. The drystack was the finishing touch to a project that also featured an ‘Old Florida’ style clubhouse and a 35-slip heavy-duty BMI concrete floating dock.

An Old Florida style clubhouse and heavyduty floating docks are features of Hamilton Harbor Yacht Club in Naples, Florida.

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GLOBAL REVIEW Corpus Christi Marina in Texas, a 700-slip municipal facility, was rejuvenated in 2008.

The main ‘buy-out’ in the equipment sector was reported by Atlantic-Meeco in the last quarter of ’08 following its acquisition of a majority interest in fellow dock manufacturer, Sullivan Flotation Systems. Both companies were founded in the 1960s and continue to operate from their separate premises with the same personnel.

BellPort Group and Vinings Marine Group (VMG) were also in buying mood, the former purchasing Anacapa Marine Service of Ventura County, California, with a view to upgrading and renovating the yard and its associated marina. VMG purchased a majority interest in Taylor’s Landing Marine Center in Norfolk, Virginia – its fifteenth marina acquisition to date.

Marinas International was appointed to operate Bluepoints Marina, a 500-slip facility under construction in Port Canaveral, Florida, and Moffatt & Nichol was commissioned to complete a conceptual study for a proposed marina alongside the Vancouver Convention Centre, Canada, and undertake studies for the City of Long Beach, California, which involved assessment of marina potential.

In Mexico, construction began at Cabo Riviera Marina on the East Cape of the Sea of Cortez and in Costa Rica two marinas progressed. The projected 400-berth marina in Mexico is part of a development that includes waterfront properties, resort hotels and a golf course much like the newly opened Marina Papagayo in Costa Rica (see World News).

The latter will ultimately offer 350 slips at

floating docks supplied by ShoreMaster and is protected by an extensive floating breakwater.

A 200-slot drystack is also mooted. Also ready for an 08/09 opening is Marina Pez Vela, which features a unique cofferdam breakwater, floating concrete docks and a full service boatyard.

In the Caribbean, IGY commenced redevelopment of Rodney Bay Marina in St Lucia and C&NM soft opened Port Louis Marina in Grenada offering a variety of berth sizes including ten for superyachts. Rodney Bay will also have a significant superyacht

focus as does the Nikki Beach resort in the Turks & Caicos. A total of 252 new slips are planned for Rodney Bay including 30 for superyachts. It also features a 4.5 acre boatyard. The Nikki Beach resort, which opened last April, boasts the largest superyacht marina on the islands with 110 slips for vessels up to 200 feet long. The marina is eco-friendly with technology designed, built and operated to exceed all 22 Blue Flag Marina Criteria guidance notes.

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Marina and community become one at Seabridge Southern California is home to Disneyland and Sleeping Beauty’s enchanted castle so it is appropriate that the sun-soaked state is also home to a thoroughly enchanting new marina community called Seabridge. Seabridge is in Channel Islands Harbor, a two-mile long stretch of protected harbour located 30 miles north of Malibu on California’s scenic coastal Route 1. Robert Wilkes reports which are marine parks. The northern set of Channel Islands Harbor is a newer and more about a half hour’s cruise from the harbour. islands nearest the harbour feature popular and affordable northern alternative to Southern To the north is the city of Santa Barbara and exciting ecology parks that can be reached in California’s celebrated boating mecca at its coastal and beach communities, which Newport Beach and it is an excellent home port The dock modules were assembled before the canal was from which to access some of the best cruising flooded to help in forming the timber walers. the region has to offer. The harbour has seen its marinas and marine businesses expand steadily over the decades in rhythm with the phenomenal growth of Southern California since the end of WWII. Once a set of sleepy coastal agricultural communities, Port Hueneme, Ventura and Oxnard are now within the expanding sphere of metropolitan Los Angeles. Nearby Port Hueneme (pronounced Wy-nee-mee) is noteworthy as the home of the SeaBees of the US Navy.

Channel Islands Harbor has several established marinas and boatyards nearer to the harbour entrance in the southern end. The islands and canals of Seabridge, in the newer north section of the harbour, were carved out of 135 acres of raw land by DR Horton in 2006 and 2007 and its public marina facilities were completed and opened in July 2008. Market demand has been solid and slips were 50% leased in just a few months.

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Left: residents can use dedicated public docks near the amphitheatre when using their runabouts. Above: architectural attention to detail is evident in classic forms, colours and lighting. Below: residents use electric boats in the same manner as golf carts to make their way around the complex.

are arrayed along an unspoiled mountainous stretch of California many consider the most beautiful part of the state. Turning south, one can cruise to Catalina Island, Marina Del Rey and, of course, the vibrant boating scene at Newport Beach.

DR Horton is the largest real estate developer in the USA and Seabridge is a bold, imaginative concept. The company has accomplished what many might consider impossible. It is not unusual to build stunning housing developments in California, but it is quite remarkable to build a completely new marina where nothing had been before. Refurbishing existing marinas goes on continuously but new marinas in new basins are extremely rare in this part of the world because almost all the natural marina basins in California have been developed. If you intend to create a new basin, overcoming permitting requirements and satisfying strict environmental concerns is a convoluted, time-consuming process; daunting indeed.

Other restraints to building new marinas include the economic realities that drive property owners to employ land for its ‘highest and best use’. This often results in highdensity, high-asset-value projects like hotels and condominiums rather than marinas. It clearly takes a major corporate developer with the resources and patience of DR Horton to see a project such as Seabridge to completion.

Following preliminary planning undertaken

by Moffatt & Nichol, Bellingham Marine (BMI) was appointed as the design-build contractor for both the public and private moorage facilities of the development. A 250-slip marina serves the public and an additional 250 slips are spread out throughout the development. These are adjacent to residential homes built on two ‘islands’ surrounded by a system of canals spanned by two landmark bridges and a causeway. Moffatt & Nichol designed the waterways, along with the dredged channels, perimeter bulkheads and revetment.

Buyers of waterfront homes may elect to have a designated nearby slip deeded to them in the purchase of a house or condominium and the private moorage options vary in design.

Some slips have private gangways and others are reached by perimeter walkways from shared gangways. All docks are constructed of concrete flotation manufactured in Dixon, California by BMI. There is a combination of finger-slip berths and side tie moorage, and all slips are supplied with utilities such as water and power. Private slips accommodate boats from small electric runabouts to 60ft cruisers.

The public marina offers additional slips for residents and non-residents with moorage for boats from 16 to 60 feet in length. “We moor boats for tenants from all over the Pacific Coast as far away as Washington State,” said Kevin Ketchum, principal and general manager for California Yacht Marina, the company that is responsible for operating the public marina. A dock owners’ association coordinates the private slip owners’ needs for maintenance and ongoing services. The marina has an extra measure of security and fire protection. “The city police and fire departments have slips in the marina for harbour patrol and fire protection, and we have a police substation in the shopping centre. The same goes for the County Harbor Patrol,” said Ketchum. “We provide an office and slips for them as well.”

S e a b r i dge is a selfcontained community with a variety of shops, restaurants,

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health club facilities, a concert amphitheatre and a 6,000 square foot clubhouse for residents. The developers wanted to create a marina lifestyle without cars, and provided a number of docks and ties for residents to park small boats near commercial and recreational areas within the complex.

To illustrate, imagine you live at Seabridge and wake up one morning needing eggs and coffee. You simply cross your back yard and take the gangway to your dock. You toss your faithful terrier Lord Nelson into your electric launch, shove off and wend through interlaced canals to the shopping village. With Lord Nelson on the prow you tie to a public

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dock near the shopping village and make your purchases. Shopping done, you stroll along shady parkways across Renaissance Europe style bridges in the warm California sun. Back in the launch, you slip quietly past the concert amphitheatre (it’s an electric boat!) and head down the canal to your slip.

You tie your launch aft of your motor yacht and…coffee’s on.

It’s easy to see the parallel between Seabridge and gated-community golf clubs. Private golf club residents can leave their car parked in the garage and use a golf cart for most purposes. At Seabridge, the electric golf cart is replaced by a jaunty electric runabout, a popular waterborne variation on the golf cart.

Duffy Electric Boats has provided a local dealer for its distinctive whalerstyle craft and they are also offered for hire by a concessionaire. Channel Islands Harbor, like Newport Beach to the south, is large enough to provide a fulfilling day of pleasant sightseeing without ever going out into the Pacific.

Seabridge is a remarkable integration of land and water, the result of a master plan so well thought out that the development won the national award for the Best Master Planned Community of the Year in 2007. The execution and architectural attention to detail of Seabridge is, in a word, charming.

Two great bridges stand as iconic landmarks, inspired by famous bridges on the Seine, the Arno or in many enchanting European cities. The docks and slips are sited and designed with an architectural richness to complement the fashionable residential buildings, parks and common areas.

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Fidelity to the architectural vision required a dock design that shared the elegance of the buildings and bridges. To this purpose, Bellingham developed a system for manufacturing and installing curved docks more perfectly round in appearance than any they have done before.

Seabridge (above) - and close up - offers 250 public slips and a further 250 private moorings.

“The individual modules are shorter on the inside and longer on the outside of the curvature,” said BMI general manager, Jim Puder. “The dock gets its round, arched appearance from the use of curved concrete forms. We created the tooling and made it expressly for this project.”

“The walers were then formed to the concrete floats utilising the structural rod construction.

The walers and rods together act to hold the assembly in its curved configuration. Once in place, the wood takes the curved shape permanently, much like the case of a piano,” he continued.

Because of scheduling constraints, the curved dock was constructed in situ, on the bottom of the canal, before the basin was flooded. The curved dock faces the amphitheatre complex located near the shops and other services. The float and its fingers provide extra slips for residents’ runabouts when attending a concert or at other times for shopping.

“Bringing a community of such dramatic scope to fruition was a groundbreaking effort for the company and one that took years of thoughtful planning and innovation,” said Chris Chambers, California regional president for DR Horton.

“The concept of gracious, resortlike residential living in a marina environment has been proven in Florida and other places. We’ve shown it can work in California.

The fact that we received such a prestigious award for Seabridge speaks volumes about this waterfront master plan.”

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Market strategy, financial awareness and a realistic and accurate appraisal of your customer base are all key factors when planning marina projects. Tim Mason of Applied Technology & Management (ATM) gives guidance There is no standard ‘list’ of where to spend A pro forma - a financial projection model funds when it comes to budgeting for new that examines expenses and income - should be marinas or marina renovations. The minimum completed (or audited in the case of a renovation) requirements include a dock and cleats - that is, to discern the state of finances and project them a berth and safe user access to vessels. Beyond into the future. Such studies take into account these basics, there is a wide array of amenity the possible addition of new amenities and and utility choices that will vary based on the services resulting from the project, and can facility’s target customers. In some cases, a model the return on investment of particular facility owner or manager may know exactly aspects. If additional slips are added, for what the market and customers demand. In instance, one can project the resulting income other cases, the critical elements are less from them. Most pro formas look forward at obvious and require some due diligence. least five years and can look as far ahead as 10 Whether the facility is new or existing, a to 20 years, and the input parameters can be as common project process is recommended. detailed as deemed necessary.

All of the elements in this process - feasibility What is feasible and desirable for a and planning, through site studies, obtaining particular marina project depends partly permits, final plans and specifications, upon the condition of existing infrastructure construction and other critical issues - must be and services, as well as their capacity to addressed according to project-specific goals. handle proposed new uses. These issues are The marina’s market strategy and financial addressed by engineering surveys that look at position should guide these goals.

Every project should include an examination of the facility’s revenue streams, expenses, capital fund allocations and debts early in the process. This exercise helps guide the project’s objectives, scope and schedule. Before marina design is initiated, it is paramount that planners examine the project’s capital budget and potential revenue from all sources. Decisions about how infrastructure should be built or reconstructed and what can be done to improve existing operations and services will impact the cost of the project and the marina’s annual bottom line for many years. The owner or operator should involve their consultants early, develop a communications process that works well for them and seek appropriate input from customers.

water depths at and around the marina, and the condition of piles, docks, bulkheads, utilities, buildings and other items. If the berthing area has insufficient depth, dredging has to be a top priority and this may lead to scaling back the ‘wish list’ of new amenities or postponing construction of some of them.

Deciding what should be included in the project is typically an iterative process that examines many ‘what if’ scenarios. For example, how much more revenue can result from adding more slips for 50 to100ft vessels?

How much more would it cost to build 15 of these instead of 10? And how often will the additional five be occupied? A pro forma to analyse where money is best spent is a critical component of every major project.

Aiming for the high-end

In the popular yachting area of Newport, Rhode Island, Forty 1° North Marina Resort had a clear goal to create a high-end facility to stand apart from other Newport marinas. The project aimed to construct a world-class marina, restaurant, dinner club and lodging that would appeal to owners of yachts up to 250 feet long. Providing amenities and services to appeal to this clientele has guided all aspects of the project.

The site included an existing marina whose bulkhead and docks had completely deteriorated. This infrastructure not only had to be rebuilt to ensure continued safe operation, it also had to be tailored for the targeted clientele.

New amenities included upgraded electrical service, vessel pump-out, bath houses and wireless internet service. “Upgraded electrical service enables us to offer yachts 200 amps of 480 volt service, which can be hard to come by in New England,” says Peter Borden, managing director of Forty 1° North.

Plans for dockside amenities were based on an intimate understanding of the desires of the target market. For instance, the planning team made pump-out service available at

Marina docks at Forty 1º North Marina Resort in Rhode Island prior to refurbishment

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Prioritising on a tight budget

Serving a wide swath of the boating public, Indian River Marina in the Rehoboth Beach area of Delaware had a much different challenge. The state-owned facility had been underfunded for many years, with little money available for capital replacement. In the mid1990s, the floating docks and the bulkhead were reaching the end of their lifespans and beginning to deteriorate. The state legislature was reluctant to pay for the reconstruction but, after several years of effort, parks and recreation officials were able to tap into an endowment and some federal grants to fund a major renovation.

The facility’s pro forma helped convince legislators to allow the marina to use state endowment funds earmarked for recreation.

“Due to our prime location on the Atlantic Ocean, we had a waiting list of over 100 boats,” says Britt Murray, chief of the Office of Design for Delaware’s Division of Parks and Recreation. “We said that if we make an investment, we can make at least six per cent on that investment.”

As funding was staggered, the project had to be completed in phases leaving officials to prioritise not only on what to build but also when to build it. Officials held meetings and ATM developed a website to receive slipholder input on the construction plan. One of the chief complaints about the existing facility was inadequate fuelling capacity causing long lines at the pumps. As a result, the renovated marina included 18 positions capable of receiving high-speed fuel - increased from 10 in the old facility - and an additional fuelling station was added adjacent to the new drystack building.

One idea floated at the public meetings was to construct the drystack first. “This would have been relatively inexpensive,” Murray says, “and would

have created immediate cash flow allowing a larger amount of capital revenue to invest.” However, most slipholders were unfamiliar with the benefits of drystacks and wanted the wet slips built first. Thus, dry stack construction was postponed.

To cope with cash flow limitations, construction was phased over four years. During the first year, the southern half of the marina was constructed. The northern half was built in a later phase, along with upland amenities including cottages.

Since project completion, boat traffic, slip usage and revenues have all increased at Indian River Marina, which now boasts 274 floating slips, an additional 14 set aside for transients and 156 drystack berths. Even though the marina was obliged to adhere to a strict project budget, the plan provided the right mix of amenities to the target clientele to generate a positive return on investment.

There are many variables to consider when devising a project budget. Choices in materials and design are based on cost, durability and other factors. Engineers and contractors should make clear to the owner what those choices entail.

For instance, new synthetic products for dock construction may have a longer lifespan than wood but could be more costly. A cost/benefit analysis should be undertaken to determine if the investment in a synthetic product is worth the expense. Would the premium needed to pay for the synthetic material be better spent elsewhere, such as on an upgrade of the electrical system, for example? The answer often depends upon customer expectations, the offerings of competing marinas and the options preferred by regulators.

Another element factoring into the budgeting and planning process is competitive bidding.

There are various methods of procurement for construction. Preparation of a clear set of project requirements (plans, specifications and contract documents) is critical to ensure Replacement docks have given Indian River Marina a new lease of life.

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Planning projects in a down economy

In the midst of a significant global economic downturn, many marina owners are wary of taking on capital projects.

However, deteriorating infrastructure will not pause until it is convenient for the owner to pay for repairs and upgrades. Even if a marina owner isn’t ready to reconstruct or expand, he or she can advance planning, feasibility studies (including pro formas), design and begin the permitting process.

Facilities that aren’t planning any major changes and have kept up with maintenance could also benefit from an operations audit or pro forma ‘tune up’.

In many areas, obtaining approvals for a new marina or a major renovation/ expansion can take from six months to two or more years. An owner who postpones a necessary renovation until the economy shows signs of improvement may have to wait two or more years before construction can start! On the other hand, marina owners who have done the legwork for a renovation or new project will be able to move quickly to construction when they are ready. The prepared owner puts himself in a strong competitive position. For projects that are approved and have financing, construction in a depressed economy offers owners the savings of lower fuel costs, surplus materials and contractor availability.

Tim Mason ‘apples-to-apples’ bids. Bids for one of our recent marina construction projects in the Caribbean varied only 10% between the low and high bidder. This was within the owner’s expected range and validated the financial model. Much larger variance in bid prices may result from a poorly prepared or incomplete set of bid documents and may be cause for concern. Up front investment in proper planning, permitting and design phases is crucial to fully develop an understanding of the project’s costs and benefits.

There are seemingly endless possibilities when planning a marina project. The details may seem overwhelming. That’s why it is vital to have a good grasp of what investments need to be made to continue to provide current services, what upgrades could generate additional revenue and how much the facility can afford to spend. A good plan results from minimising the unknowns and having a firm grasp on the services and experience the target market expects.

Tim Mason, PE is a coastal and marina engineer with Applied Technology & Management, Inc. (ATM), www.appliedtm.com, a coastal, environmental, marina and water resources engineering firm based in Florida. He can be reached in ATM’s Charleston, SC office.

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Oscar Siches

In search of the ‘extra’ element

by Oscar Siches CMM

Some time ago, in a presentation I was invited to give at the International Marina & Boatyard Conference, I said that the technical part needed for projecting and building a new marina, as well as the economic part of it (financial study, accounting) was never a problem; there are plenty of firms that could be engaged to provide them.

So, why are some marinas considered better the yard very well as I have fitted marine than others? Such judgement rarely depends electronics into several of its ships in the past. on marina size, location or type of boats.

My friend was quite well aware of the world Neither does it depend on turnover or financial of superyachts when he joined the yard and results. When you hear people talking about - very importantly - he also knew how to treat those successful marinas, the ‘it has something’ the clients and how to speak their language concept seems always to be present. (meaning understanding their needs and hope).

Marinas are facilities that are designed For me, that sixth element was the perfect and operated to moor yachts and provide the description of knowing the product and the related services needed for the enjoyment of client, and acknowledging the importance of yacht users. This is an accurate statement, but the relationship created by those two elements, not a complete statement. How do we arrive at which is unique every time. The result is that the complete one? What is missing? his work as moderator for all of the players Feng Shui, usually known as a ‘weird way (shipyard, client, designer, captain) enabled of arranging furniture’ was (and is) in fact a - as much as possible - a general consensus to system of aesthetics to understand and better be achieved when creating a yacht. use astronomy and geography to improve Before attempting to design or build a quality of life - to get ‘that extra thing’ out of marina, you have to search, find or create that that knowledge. sixth element. It will be the centre pillar of your There is a big shipyard in Northern Europe stability act. It is what the workers, the users, (Lürssen) that, around 1995, adopted that the suppliers and the local authorities should concept in their advertising. The slogan read: and will ‘perceive’. It is the marina identity, the ‘Water, Fire, Metal, Earth, Wood - Lurssen, mood, the true factor that only a human being the sixth element.’ can create for others to share and enjoy.

The director of the yacht department of that I do not start a marina project dressing shipyard is a dear friend of mine and I know myself as a Hare Krishna, dancing, playing

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cymbals and burning incense at the future site.

But I tend to pay attention to non-technical matters that will affect the operation and the enjoyment of the facility. Here are a few examples: 1. Define the marina: big is not always right, both in amount and size of the moorings.

A careful market study should be made.

A marina for megayachts in a typical vacation apartment/family holiday area will not provide the moorings needed for the holidaymaker’s boats, nor the services needed by the super and megayachts.

2. Think what you would like to find in the marina if you arrived there with your boat. If you do not have experience as a yachtsman, consult skippers of similar boats to the ones for which you are designing the marina. You will find out that there are segments of the fleet that desire and need similar services (one very evident difference is if the yachts have permanent crew). Choose a similar marina and visit it, have a couple of drinks in the bar, canteen or pub and engage in conversations about the harbour. A bar is usually the best place to find the skippers, maintenance guys and marina employees.

3. Check the traffic circulation in similar marinas. Clever traffic circulation design avoids carrying weight to the boats by foot, noisy suppliers early in the morning, better parking place distribution and safer boat transport to and from the boatyard.

4. Be part of the decision making about the commercial tenants. You know the people that are going to use the marina so the restaurants and shops should be within the limits of your users’ budgets and expectations. If the restaurant or shop is too fancy or expensive it will not become part of the marina community.

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5. Marinas with yachts over 12m length are becoming communities. Boat users come to the marina to spend time on the boat and ashore and not always to go sailing. Spaces to organise events (e.g. festivals, concerts, fishing contests) are necessary both inside and outside, as are basic services like a newspaper stand (or delivery on weekends), ATM and a supermarket.

Do you like good looking marinas? I guess you do, even if that is a perception that is not always rationalised. Beautiful, tidy, neat things make us feel comfortable. Most commercial marketing techniques are based on this, and we fall for it every time. The visual impact of a marina is the first impression we get, and therefore has to be taken care of. Shapes, colours and lighting play a very important role that is often neglected. This is one of the areas where people just follow ‘the usual thing’ and do not try new techniques and developments.

Is this too unimportant? Of course, I am assuming that the ‘real’ things are being taken care of: safety, piers, electricity, fresh water, bathrooms, showers, lockers etc. There is a lot of written material on these aspects and excellent consultants to approach for help.

Lighting can be used in a very creative way. First, we must find out about the minimum standards for the type of open spaces we have (usually the same levels as for car parks in industrial areas). From there on we must decide which type of light to use (filament, fluorescent, ‘L’ bulbs (low energy), LED). Fluorescent light or ‘L’ bulbs are used to save energy (good practice) but the light is often too ‘cold’, giving out what is usually called ‘hospital’ or ‘pharmacy’ illumination.

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5000 kelvins (K) is considered white light, while 3500 K will give a yellowish light like a bright candle and 6000 K a bluish light, as is found in arctic landscapes. Human beings identify low K light with warmth, coziness and a relaxing atmosphere. We can illuminate exteriors with warm light and still be fulfilling the standards. LEDs are produced in various colour temperatures and powers and can be used for almost all applications in a marina.

Glare, light trespass (light filtering into the boat through a porthole or hatch), clutter and over illumination are common situations that should be avoided.

Noise reduction is also very easy to achieve if it is dealt with when planning the marina.

When possible, ‘louder’ types of boats should be given moorings far from public terraces,

The use of colours can give very different visual perceptions. restaurants or bars. Garbage containers can be towed close to the service entrance for the trucks so that the waste disposal process generally undertaken at very early hours – does not disturb the yacht owners. Air conditioning compressors should be mounted out of sight, on flexible mounts, and when possible within a noise absorbing box. Gates should feature the trademarked Teflon or Delrin bearings to avoid screeching etc. I could go on and on, but just applying common sense when focusing on the matter will bring excellent results.

All of this can be done by an architect, a lighting technician and a sound and noise technician but it needs the input of someone with experience in marinas - ideally the future marina manager. He or she must get that ‘gut feeling’ I mentioned before and must also follow it. Only the manager can see the whole picture, jump forward in time and see the marina in full operation through the seasons.

The marina will carry the manager’s signature as some of his decisions will be very personal. There is nothing wrong with that and he will love ‘his’ marina before it materialises. When we gather together at marina conferences you cannot tell if we are talking about the family or the facilities. We speak proudly, we share our achievements, and we seek better solutions among ourselves. Our marinas are part of us - and it should be so.

So, next time you start a project for a new marina and you happen to have an incense stick at hand ... burn it.

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Oscar Siches CMM is a marina consultant and manager of Pantalan del Mediterraneo in Mallorca, Spain.

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Nick Maris

Concentrating our assets

Creating high density marinas in order to minimise the impact on coastlines is the key role of marinas argues Nick Maris of Camper & Nicholsons Marinas. Putting this into practice, however, is fraught with obstacles. the case that a yacht that provides the greatest If tourism is travelling for pleasure and luxury wholly independent of shoreside nautical tourism is travelling for pleasure by facilities paradoxically requires them more sea, we might recall that joining the words ‘sea’ than its very simple ancestors did. and ‘pleasure’ is a recent phenomenon. Not so Not only were early yachts independent, long ago the saying was ‘He that would learn they were also small and they were few, well to pray, let him go to sea’. able to rely either on anchoring or mooring in The early days of what could be called small fishing ports. nautical tourism were marked by independence.

Today, however, there are perhaps 25 Sailors like Slocum, and even recently million registered ‘boats’ in the world. This is Moitissier, certainly didn’t have in mind a number which has made the general notion marinas when they planned their voyages. of leaving a yacht at anchor or sharing space Their boats, simple and independent, needed in commercial ports simply impossible. The little beyond water and provisions, and a safe numbers would overwhelm the facilities. anchorage from the places they visited. But This poses the question of how we now yachts are synonymous with luxury. On accommodate the growing fleet of yachts board power generation, refrigeration, air without overwhelming and destroying our conditioning, water making, electronics – for beloved coastlines. navigation and for entertainment, are essentials Let me start by taking Monaco, which has in a modern yacht of any size. The demand for perhaps the highest density of yachts per km of luxury has bred complexity and complexity has coastline of any country in the world: 215 yachts led to dependence. So, it is now surprisingly

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per km. One can picture this as an entire coast completely lined with yachts berthed stern-to at less than 5m intervals. Yet astonishingly France has a density only seven times less or a boat for every 35m of its coast. Clearly, if we are to avoid a situation where the entire coastline is lined with boats much higher densities must be achieved and, for this, the principal present technical solution is the marina. I argue in fact that it is the essential ‘key role’ of a marina. It accommodates yachts at a ‘density’ that permits parts of the coast to remain free of yachts while offering the yachts shelter.

This word ‘density’ is important. To be effective in concentrating yachts, marinas must be larger rather than smaller and extend so far as technically practicable seawards, and not along the coast. Within the water area they enclose, the density of yachts, i.e. the lettable berth area as a percentage of the gross water area, needs to be high. Moreover, density should be increased further by the wider introduction of dry stack storage of smaller yachts.

There are substitutes to increasing density.

The trend of redevelopment of ‘brownfield sites’ i.e. ports whose former commercial purpose is now lost, being converted to yachting centres should also be strongly encouraged. Another substitute is encouraging the diffusion of yachts from the most highly utilised areas, such as the south of France, the Balearics and, say, Florida or St Martins, to less highly utilised areas or even at present undeveloped areas such as, for example, much of the south shore of the Mediterranean and parts of the Red Sea. What should be strongly resisted by all is the annihilation of virgin coastlines by the scattergun construction of ill considered marinas, which destroy the very asset which all tourists and citizens, including the nautical tourist, seek to enjoy.

So, if a key purpose of marinas is to increase Top left: Densely packed marinas in Monte Carlo, Monaco.

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the density of yachts in selected areas whilst preserving the maximum of coastline for other uses (hopefully as much as possible in its natural state) where do the obstacles to this lie?

Let me start by saying that each ‘real world case’ is completely individual and complex, so what follows is a great simplification.

The first obstacles are nature’s own - depth of water, violence of waves, siltation and the like. Technical solutions exist for such problems - at a price. And the price that can be paid is dependent on the berthing rates that can be realised in marinas. In areas of high demand and berthing rates, money exists to pay to overcome such obstacles.

In the highest priced marinas in the Mediterranean, berthing rates approach €200 per square meter of berth area per year. Based on an operating profit margin of 30%, the free cash flow (from berthing excluding other revenues) would be in the order of €60 per square meter.

For a mid sized marina, with 40,000 square meters of lettable berth area, this is €2.4 million per annum. This would value the marina at, say, €24 million of which a significant part would be available for the capital cost of construction.

In a lower priced region of the Mediterranean, however, the rates would be closer to €30 per square meter and the resulting marina value would be around €3.6 million. Expensive technical solutions are now impossible. The point here is that in high revenue areas planners should encourage the increase in density of a marina by, for example, building outside of existing marinas in deeper water.

This brings me to ‘manmade’ obstacles to the increase in the density offered by marinas.

I’m sure there is broad agreement that planners and communities are right to place limits on the amount of coastline ‘consumed’ by marinas.

However, are there any established practices which actively inhibit density of use within existing marinas?

One practice is the operation of marinas by government or municipal entities. As a general rule – to which there are honourable exceptions – this results in departure from market optimisation. For example, berthing rates tend to lag the true market level and unofficial markets develop where berths are exchanged. This means that the true value of the potential berth rental cannot be realised and the resulting reduction in profitability means it is not possible to exploit the more expensive technical solutions to enlarge marinas or take other steps to increase density.

Other damaging constraints include prohibition of construction of residential or other revenue earning buildings on breakwaters which, as a result, remain sterile and a ‘sunk cost’. The limitation on eaves heights on buildings on reclaimed land or within 100m of the waterline also prohibits the effective construction of drystack by limiting them to two-high stacks, which barely improves the density

over in-water berths. The limitation of built areas to plot area make many marinas resemble airports so low is the density of building whereas, perversely - being mostly pedestrianised - marinas offer, indeed demand, high density of buildings. Again, since in most places the water areas/seabed are owned by public entities, the granting of concessions on short terms of as little as 25 years is very damaging because the short period prevents the recovery of higher technical costs.

You may think the above is a list of items which tends towards increasing the profits of the marina operator. Of course, it is just that.

But with the potential of higher profits comes the ability to spend more on building new or renovating existing marinas. The ability to spend more permits technical solutions, which enlarge the size of the marina without increasing its consumption of coastline and raise the internal density of yachts that can be accommodated. And, of course, improves the quality of architecture and finish. All of these are desirable goals for the countries, the marina owners, and all those who use or benefit from them.

The above article is based on a paper entitled ‘Key Role of Marinas in Promoting Nautical Tourism – Encouraging Density Within Marinas to Protect our Coastlines’ presented

by Nicholas Maris, chairman of Camper & Nicholsons Marinas (C&NM) at IMC 2008, held in Ostende, Belgium in May 2008. Further information on C&NM can be found on www. cnmarinas.com

Round the clock: Baie de Menton, Golf Juan and Baie de Cannes. Marinas such as these offer densely packed moorings thus concentrating marina developments and protecting coastlines. Photos courtesy: Creocean, CCI Nice Cote d’Azur and Menton Garavan Marina.

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MARINA PLANNING: INLAND

Simon Salem

Motorboats moored up at Tewkesbury Marina.

With boating on inland waters on the increase, British Waterways (BW), manager of the UK’s network of canals and rivers, is encouraging the development of inland marinas to meet existing and future demands. BW marketing and customer services director, Simon Salem, gives an update Britain’s 2,200 mile network of canals and unless the existing development potential rivers is enjoying a remarkable renaissance. was acted upon many boat owners would be From dereliction and decline, waterways are unable to find moorings. Most marinas and being rediscovered in towns and cities right online mooring sites were fully occupied and across the country. Money is being invested, had long waiting lists. canals have been reopened and the waterside has become Wigrams Turn Marina in Warwickshire is a popular mooring spot. There are now 30,000 colourful the place to live, work and narrow boats on BW canals. socialise.

Central to this second golden age of canals are the colourful narrow boats. Numbers have steadily grown over the past decade and there are now 30,000 boats on British Waterways (BW) canals and rivers - more even than 200 years ago at the height of the Industrial Revolution.

This steady and sustained success story has led to an acute shortage of inland marina berths. In 2004, the number of new boats on the waterways was increasing faster than the rate at which new mooring berths were being created.

At that time, BW estimated that a further 10,000 marina berths were needed over the next ten years to meet growing demand, and with the number of boat owners increasing by more than 2.4% year-on-year,

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UK ‘policy’ hinders growth

Vi r t u a l l y a l l B Wmanaged online sites were (and still are) full yearround and BW managers report that new boaters often have to wait several years before securing a mooring. In May 2005, nearly 1700 people were recorded on BW’s local waiting lists for long term moorings.

Private marinas across BW regions were also running at exceptionally high occupancy levels. In summer 2005, BW mailed all marina operators offering a free listing of mooring sites with current vacancies within its information pack for new boater enquiries.

Less than 15% responded saying that they had vacancies to advertise. Waiting lists were so long that many marinas would often not even add a prospective client to their list, and just as with BW moorings, waiting times often run to several years. The length of these waiting lists is obviously a compelling indicator of the latent demand for offline marinas. Of note, in 2004 and 2005 only two new inland marinas opened on the waterways.

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Positive demographic trends and the increasing popularity of canal boating are driving growth in licensed craft, particularly amongst the over 50s. This age group is growing much faster than any other. This trend is particularly positive considering the significant purchase cost of canal boats. 66% of canal boats are worth more than £21,000 implying a substantial commitment to boating. A majority of boaters remain active in the market for at least 12 years and there is particularly strong recent growth in demand for residential moorings, particularly in urban areas.

The increasing popularity of canal boating has been consistent with strong growth in the wider UK leisure marine market. BW work in restoring, maintaining and improving the canal network, on which it spends about £100 million annually, has also supported growth in the number of boats. This work has dramatically improved the amenity value of the existing canal network and has extended it by over 200 miles within the past five years alone.

Addressing the shortage

British Waterways, a public corporation accountable to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in England and Wales, is promoting investment in inland marinas. It is responsible for managing the UK’s network of canals and rivers and is encouraging the development of inland marinas to meet existing and forecast strong commercial demand. To help potential developers decide if the opportunity is suitable for them, early in 2006 BW introduced a team specialising in helping potential marina developers as well as producing a website and investment guide.

The website (www.britishwaterways. co.uk/marinadevelopment) and guide include a wealth of detailed information to steer investors through all stages of developing a successful marina scheme, from initial

feasibility through design and construction to opening and operating. It explains BW’s application process whose purpose is to help developers with project planning and ensure that the scheme meets BW’s technical requirements. By following the process, risks of wasting time and money on planning an unsuitable scheme will be minimised.

BW’s New Marina Unit comprises project managers, engineers and property specialists whose role is to accelerate the development of new marinas. They do this initially by providing an expert point of contact within BW for marina investors and developers. Once a scheme has received their outline approval, they will appoint a dedicated account manager to be responsible for the smooth progress of the scheme through the various stages of approval.

How planning affects supply

Securing planning permission is a major hurdle in the delivery of secure offline moorings, reflected in the relatively high refusal rate of planning applications and appeals for marina developments. Over the past few years over 3,400 berths have been approved, however more than 1,300 berths have been refused permission. The principal reasons/grounds for refusal are: • Inappropriate use in green belt (i.e. zones preserved from urban development) and open countryside – policy constraint issue • Traffic generation – lack of evidence base issue • Landscape and visual impact – site specific issue

Traffic generation

There is a misperception that marinas are high traffic generating developments as they actually generate very little traffic. For example, a 200 berth marina generates average weekday peak hour traffic flow of 20 cars and a Sunday afternoon peak of 64. BW is in the process of commissioning a new traffic

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Braunston Marina in Daventry, Northamptonshire, underlines the close integration between waterways and local communities. generation study which will update its current statistics and provide robust evidence for local planning authorities.

‘Inappropriate Use’

Waterways are different from other parts of the leisure industry as they are ‘non-footloose’ assets, i.e. the location and alignment of waterways are fixed, and this affects the location and siting of associated essential infrastructure and facilities such as marinas and boatyards, as well as facilities associated with visitor attractions. As such, they face similar constraints to other rural non-footloose assets such as stately homes, country houses and mineral sites.

Waterways by their very nature transcend cities, towns and rural areas, providing key links between attractions, as well as being a visitor attraction in their own right.

Approximately 50% of the inland waterways system in England and Wales is located in rural areas with the waterways passing through 114 waterside market towns. Inland waterways possess all five of the main components of rural environmental public goods, namely, biodiversity, natural resources, landscapes, cultural heritage as well as public access and enjoyment. Waterways can contribute to rural economic diversification, development and regeneration priorities through tourism, recreation and environmental enhancement. In order to secure long term sustainable growth of the network as a leisure and tourism asset, the following must be achieved: 1. Provision of essential infrastructure and facilities used in the connection with water based leisure, tourism and recreation within reasonable cruising distances

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2. Provision of facilities to support waterway related attractions 3. Creation of destinations along the network and at the terminuses Planning policy at all levels (national, regional and local) places significant constraints on the provision of appropriate facilities needed to enhance inland waterways in urban fringe and rural areas. Planning policies generally focus upon (1) concentrating development within ‘Urban or Key Service Centres’ (2) redevelopment of brownfield or previously developed land and (3) applying the sequential approach to all forms of development in determining the location of development. In this regard, recognition of the need to take account of particular locational requirements is vital in terms of supporting waterway-related tourism and leisure. BW is in the process of lobbying at all levels to explicitly address the problem by explaining the need for allowance for appropriate forms of development outside the centres identified to support the long term sustainability of waterways, and to acknowledge the role of waterways in farm diversification and rural regeneration.

Marina development is not just hindered by this policy constraint on the location of development but by the fact that the land take for marina development (approximately two hectares of land for a 200-berth facility) is significant but is low value generating. This results in potential marina operators being unable to afford to acquire urban land as they are competing with developers for higher value generating uses such as housing, offices, commercial leisure uses, etc. The efficiency of using urban land for marinas with fewer than 100 berths is very questionable.

Furthermore, to enable boaters to cruise the network, they require mooring facilities and associated service facilities en route and, therefore, new marina developments and other boat related and service facilities will often need to be located in open countryside, green belt, landscape designations etc, if waterways

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are to be used in a sustainable manner for water based leisure, tourism and recreation purposes.

New marina developments and extensions, other boat related and service facilities should be viewed as acceptable forms of development in green belts and open countryside, but in most cases there is a general presumption against marina development within green belts as they are considered to be inappropriate use of land and affect the openness of the area.

However, there is inconsistency in case law in what might be considered to be ‘appropriate’ development in the green belt. In one case, the planning inspector was of the opinion that a ‘small scale’, ‘recreational’ mooring basin (i.e. moorings provided for craft used for leisure not residential purposes) could be considered ‘appropriate’ by definition, and in another case, the inspector concluded that a marina is an engineering operation.

What does BW think?

BW supports the view that there is a need to protect the high environmental value of rural waterways from inappropriate and ribbon development. Planning policies and approaches need to be sufficiently flexible to take account of the inherent non-footloose nature of waterways and to recognise the unique characteristics and attributes of waterways as well as benefits offered by waterways in order to utilise the waterways as a delivery mechanism for rural regeneration and diversification and rural tourism as advocated within government publications.

Allowance should be made for appropriate forms and scale of development outside centres such as marina developments and extensions in order to support the long term sustainability of waterways as a non-footloose asset and to enable waterways to support rural tourism development as well as farm and rural diversification.

To help raise awareness more locally, BW is interacting directly with all local planning

Mixed moorings in the thick of the busy city of Nottingham. authorities in whose areas a BW managed waterway passes. The aim is to look at how the two organisations can further improve these waterway corridors, and to outline the socio economic benefits of marina developments.

These discussions are proving positive in that prior to this initiative, the planning refusal rate was 20% higher than it is now.

Will there be success?

Since December 2005, just over 3,200 berths have been created at 21 new marinas/basins.

Assuming four further marinas currently under construction as well as 13 with planning approval come forward to completion, this figure will increase to 4,800 berths.

These have predominantly been constructed by existing land owners, particularly farmers, as opposed to developers who have bought the land with the specific intention of building a marina. Largely, the significant growth has been as a result of the New Marinas Unit targeting this group of potential investors in addition to various government initiatives to promote, and on occasions, fund rural diversification at a time of decreasing returns for farm land.

Looking to the future, BW believes that its target of facilitating the construction of 10,000 new mooring berths by 2017 is achievable.

There does, however, need to be a consistent approach towards raising awareness of the opportunity to potential developers, and ongoing lobbying of local, regional and central government departments to make marina development in countryside an appropriate use.

The above article is an updated version of a paper entitled ‘Growth of Boating on the UK’s Inland Waterways and Tackling the Pressures this Brings’ presented by Simon Salem at IMC 2008 held in Ostende, Belgium in May 2008.

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Puerto del Rey, a 1,000-slip marina located in Fajardo on the eastern coast of Puerto Rico, has taken delivery of the newest model KMI Sea-Lift boat hauler.

Known as the Model 45 Adjustable, the machine was developed at the specific request of Puerto del Rey president, Daniel Shelley. He was particularly interested in the Sea-Lift’s capacity to handle large catamarans. “Catamarans are the ideal sailboat for the Caribbean and we are seeing more and more of them of all sizes here,” he said. “They’ve become a huge part of our business and we needed a machine to haul them without difficulty.”

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Puerto del Rey took delivery of the 45 Adjustable in August to that it could be in use as the hurricane season approached.

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decided that the best ‘fit’ for the job was a Sublift built by Swedish company Anytec Marine and supplied by Wave Seven Marine of the UK. The Sublift – with its submersible features and quiet operation – was ideal in satisfying the manager’s objective of finding a single machine that could perform efficiently at a slipway with limited tidal access. Following a trial period, yard staff can now manage a much wider range of boats in the same range of tide.

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Facilities afloat in Snug Harbour Union Steamship Co. Marina in Snug Cove on Bowen Island, Canada, took delivery of a long awaited floating shower house and marina reception office as 2008 drew to a close. The building was floated into place at the end of the marina gangway by International Marine Flotation (IMF) who constructed the facility at its drydock in Delta, British Columbia.

Bowen Island Municipality upgrades its Sporting a unique triangular shape, the sewage treatment plant. The council also building has been styled to dovetail with the wants to develop regulations regarding Arts & Crafts architecture of the marina’s other the acceptance of sewage from visiting buildings. It will be operational in time for this boats and a cost recovery or billing year’s summer season offering boaters high quality toilet and shower facilities. mechanism for the pump-outs.

The marina reception office and a utility Union Steamship Co. Marina, situated room are located on the first floor with the around 12 miles northwest of Vancouver, second floor housing three separate shower is the largest marina and employer on rooms, ladies’ and men’s toilets, a TV and Bowen Island. It is the biggest source of computer lounge with additional washer/dryer tourism on the island and was purchased and an employee’s security suite. by the Dike family – experienced world A pump-out system was also planned to sailors – in 1985 and redeveloped in ensure a clean harbour but marina owner 1990 making best use of Rondy Dike’s Rondy Dike has been disappointed in his plans. professional skills as an architect.

The floating facilities themselves involved two The marina accommodates boats of complete ‘go-arounds’ of rezoning, approvals, 20 to 200 feet in a resort setting that marina world August new rolec anPage 1 18/8/08 3:12:05 PM environmental reports and permits, he says, but features boardwalks that wind around the pump-out plans have been deferred until the turn-of-the-century buildings. Snug

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‘Project Neptune’ ready to run Australian residential and commercial pontoon manufacturer, Superior Jetties, has released ‘early bird’ information on an innovative new berthing system to enter production this year. Under the working title of Project Neptune, the system makes use of innovative materials and manufacturing processes and has been in research and development for over 12 months.

The first of the features is the use of qualified and technical production processes. composite decking materials to provide very Project Neptune will take advantage of high levels of strength, durability, functionality major advances in design and construction and good visual appearance. An extensive to drastically speed up installation, reduce range of colours, finishes and surfaces will the need for qualified tradesmen and allow be offered. Another first is the use of nonfor an easily manoeuvrable modular system. corrosive materials across most areas of A radical new design for the floats and other the system, which will help operators keep materials will reduce shipping and installation costs both locally and internationally. maintenance bills in check.

Superior Jetties has recently achieved certification as a low carbon manufacturer, a process which included an official review and certification of every element of the Project Neptune production process. The company is committed to reducing CO2 emissions across every area of its business and sees Project Neptune as a key driver in this policy.

“With a definite slowdown in the local and international marina market, we’re investing our time and resources to focus on innovation and the use of new products and processes to improve marina and pontoon design, manufacturing and installation,” said Superior Considerable emphasis is placed on Jetties managing director, John Hogan. architectural styling with user friendly features “We have a team of highly skilled industry such as recessed storage areas within the deck professionals, consultants and experts who and floats of the marina, and recessed cleats, have been utilising our years of knowledge which can easily be hidden when not in use. with the integration of new materials to Aqualuma underwater lights are incorporated push the boundaries of marina and pontoon below the waterline to create visual impact application.” at night.

The company will also be pushing the In most cases, installation of a marina or boundaries to complete a pontoon installation pontoon requires significant manpower and

project for this year’s inaugural Abu Dhabi Yacht Show (12th-14th March). Talking to Marina World at METS, Amsterdam, in November Hogan explained: “The order has just been confirmed and we’re due to install a system for 40-75m superyachts in February.

We are 100% project managers and it will certainly be a logistical challenge.”

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Oban readies for next season

It may be the depths of winter in the north west of Scotland but Oban Marina on the Isle of Kerrera has just completed a slipway upgrade, taken delivery of an allterrain crane and is busily working on the installation of a new desalination plant.

The desalinator is much needed. “It’s great news that the problems we have had with supplying enough water for our visitors, especially during the busy summer sailing season, will definitely be resolved in time for the 2009 season,” says marina manager, Susan Price. “The infrastructure is in place and through a combination of the desalination plant, new bore holes and rainwater collection, any past problems will be resolved.”

The marina’s new Grove 22 crane (right), purchased last September, has meanwhile been earning its keep removing masts from yachts of all sizes – up to a height of 22m! The masts have been transferred to winter storage and will be replaced in time for the new season.

Contact Oban Marina in the UK on email: info@obanmarina.com

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The guide was developed by the Templates are included so that RNLI during a two-year research signs can be tailored to specific and consultation programme in slipway locations, and information partnership with the UK Harbour is given on sign manufacture Masters Association, UK Port and the newly developed Unique Authorities and local councils. Slipway Location Code (USLC).

Research showed that boaters are The latter gives each sign a code often bombarded with different that enables rescue services to types of signs and a variety of pinpoint the location more swiftly information – public, statutory, in the event of an emergency.

To n y Wa f e r, s e a s a f e t y hazards and safety. The variety of different messages, materials, programmes manager for the colours and sizes of sign can lead RNLI, is delighted to see the guide to public confusion and ‘sign in print. “I’d like to thank the local and harbour authorities who have blindness’.

To help combat the problem, worked in partnership with us, and the consultation culminated in a I now urge all those responsible for trial of a newly devised standard public safety on slipways around of signage in seven locations across the coast of the UK and Ireland to Devon, Dorset, Hampshire and on contact the RNLI for a free copy,” the River Thames in London. The he said. success of the trial helped identify “Ultimately, I hope that the three categories of signs suitable RNLI slipways safety signs will for display on public slipways be adopted nationwide by slipway – access signs, reminder signs and owners and operators because we want to encourage all slipway users daily conditions signs.

Simple and clear to use, the to have a clearer understanding of resulting ‘RNLI Guide to Slipway the local hazards, by-laws, tides Safety Signs and Symbols’ is and what to do in an emergency to designed to help slipway owners help them stay safe on the water,” and operators decide which type he added. of sign they need, how many are required, which design to choose Further information is available and where each should be located. on www.rnli.org.uk

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The Yacht Leg and Cradle Company (YLCC) launched its new motor boat dolly at METS, Amsterdam last November. The product, which is easily transported, was developed in response to industry demand.

“With the increase in demand at this size they are fully stackable from insurance companies for and can be loaded into a standard properly designed and engineered size container for shipping and cradle storage for all boats, a stacked away when not in use at number of our customers asked the yard. us to look into the development of a cost-effective motor boat dolly which can safely store a boat but can also be moved around a paved area or showroom without the need for a full trailer,” explained YLCC managing director, Paul Williams.

“This makes moving vessels far easier and is more flexible than trailers. It also means in the tight surrounds of most sales showrooms the motor boat dolly can actually save a considerable amount of space.”

The dolly (right) can be easily stored when not in use and, as it is fully galvanised, requires Reacting to the increased virtually no maintenance. A pair popularity of catamarans in the of dollies will carry up to four tons region, YLCC has also turned its displacement and rubber pads are attention to the manufacture of fitted to fully protect the hull. a dedicated catamaran stand for Y L C C h a s a l s o f u r t h e r boats of 38 to 60 feet. These are strengthened its links with the already in popular use in the British Caribbean by winning a contract Virgin Islands and are likely to to supply large yacht cradles to attract customers throughout the the well known Baileys Boatyard Caribbean. in Falmouth, Antigua. The contract Contact The Yacht Leg and includes cradles for vessels up to Cradle Company in the UK on 45 tons and 75 feet overall. Even email: mail@yachtlegs.co.uk

RCI Marine, Inc., the primary developer of River Cove Yacht Harbor in Miami, Florida, has installed Golden Boat Lifts products. In the first phase of the project, RCI will be fitting ten 16,000lb capacity boatlifts and twelve 20,000lb units to accommodate boats of 30-40 feet in length. Water quality will be preserved as the boats will not require anti-fouling. Concrete piles are also being used to promote the growth of filter feeders that can help clean the water.

Contact Golden Boat Lifts in the USA on email: sales@goldenboatlifts.com

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Buddy for The Pearl BoatUS partners UK company Water Witch has completed a 7m long Buddy catamaran for Ronautica Middle East. The waterway maintenance craft has been built to retrieve floating litter and debris around the 32km coastline of The Pearl Qatar, a manmade offshore island which has 1,500 berths.

The craft features a large working dual thrust propellers for maximum area with removable deck plates manoeuvrability. The whole rig is and handrails for versatility and an readily transportable by trailer between aluminium wheelhouse with plenty sites and can be slipway launched and of secure storage and comfortable recovered.

Qatar is a new market for the company, accommodation for a crew of three.

A step-down design for the wheelhouse gives low headroom of just 2.10m for navigating under low bridges, oversized windows ensure all-round visibility and a solar panel is fitted to top up the dual charging batteries.

The vessel was delivered complete with a removable davit and Honda driven pot puller/hauler for lifting aeration pumps from the seabed. A drop down ladder, complete with hand rail grabs, was also fitted using the same quick-fit fixing system utilised for which has exported debris removal craft the handrails. When not in use, this is from its base in Liverpool to the UAE, USA, Pakistan and Australia. stowed neatly on the handrail.

Power is provided by a Yamaha Contact Liverpool Water Witch in the BETL outboard engine driving UK on email: sales@waterwitch.com

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with Marinalife

BoatUS, the largest organisation for recreational boat owners in the USA, has formed a partnership with the cruising ‘concierge’ company Marinalife.

Under the partnership, Marinalife members can take advantage of half-price BoatUS membership and discounted ‘unlimited’ on-the-water assistance services provided by TowBoatUS and Vessel Assist towing fleets – the largest in North America. BoatUS members can tap into discounted concierge services by Marinalife, which provides easy on-line or toll-free booking of visitor slips at over 8,000 marinas, along with a wealth of marina and boating information.

“This partnership stemmed from a shared mission to make boating more convenient and to remove some of the frustrations,” said Marinalife president, Joy McPeters. “It’s a win-win situation for both organisations’ members, as well as for the boating industry. Our members will benefit from the opportunity to receive cost-effective towing services through TowBoatUS and Vessel Assist, while our valuable travel services will make boating more enjoyable for BoatUS members. Whether it’s just one night or a month-long cruise, we know how to secure dockage and get confirmations quickly.”

BoatUS president, Nancy Michelman, said: “The purpose of the partnership is to enhance the boating experience of our 650,000 members and encourage more frequent boat use by providing easy-to-use tools and booking services. Our BoatUS towing services are a great addition to Marinalife’s on-the-water travel tools.”

Further information is available on www.BoatUs.com and www.marinalife.com

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Single cell LED

Dutch company Newvisibility International has introduced a new single solar cell LED light for use on piers and pontoons. The product is claimed to improve the effectiveness of small solar cell products by up to 300% in comparison with conventional techniques under normal Western European daylight conditions.

According to Newvisibility managing a battery. Only when all the parts contribute and if the sum of their efforts is enough, will director, Bart Schinkel, conventional solar cells the battery be charged.

– such as those sold in DIY stores for garden A big problem with the professional lighting – contain serially switched cells application of this technique is ‘partial shading’. which together have enough output to charge

Leaves, sand or dirt can cover up one or more solar cell segments. This results in a total output which is too low to charge the battery. The same will happen on a cloudy day when there is too little light to charge the battery, which will consequently be empty after a few days.

Newvisibility’s solution is to use a single solar cell with a patented converter that ensures even small currents are transformed into energy for the battery. The battery charges irrespective of the light conditions.

Contact Newvisibility International in the Netherlands on email: info@newvisibility. com

Satellite TV – without the dish

One bin fits all

Universal Marina in Southampton, UK, has signed up with the British Marine Federation’s (BMF’s) ‘Green Blue’ environmental scheme and implemented a practical and simple way to recycle more waste from recreational craft – one bin for all paper, cans, glass and plastic.

The single bin option is made practical to recycling management makes life easier for boaters and saves space at the

by Greenstar, a recycling company that recycling point. collects the waste and filters it through Contact Universal Marina in the UK a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF).

This award-winning fresh approach on email: info@thewillmentgroup.com

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Pier 32 Marina, just south of San Diego in California, USA, is now offering customers high definition satellite television at each of its 250 slips.

The system, designed and installed by San Diego based Commercial Satellite, is claimed to be a first for a marina having been initially developed for large office buildings and airport concourses.

One coaxial cable attached to a dock box supplies up to 250 channels of programming (with an attached satellite receiver) and over 100 channels are in high definition for new flat screen TVs. Larger vessels can operate up to eight satellite receivers with just the one cable connected. Two land-based, small, hidden satellite antennas receive all the signals – efficient and subtle.

Commercial Satellite president, Jonathan Feld, explains: “The marina developers contacted us at the design stage. They wanted an aesthetically pleasing system without satellite dishes attached to decks, pilings or the dock mooring supports.”

Each slip tenant signs up and pays for their individual programming at residential rates. “What makes this system unique is that all of the satellite companies’ 100plus high definition channels are available, including a package which will provide all of the professional football games – and you don’t see a dish,” Feld continues.

Commercial Satellite, fresh from completion of a similar project at The Wharf in San Diego, intends to market the system to other marinas in California and, eventually, nationwide. This will include inland lake marinas as well as coastal facilities.

Contact Commercial Satellite in the USA on email: info@comsatsd.com

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Greener swing moorings

A swing mooring system suitable for mooring boats and floating jetties is finding growing favour with environmentally aware boaters and marina operators in Australia. The key benefit is that EzyRider from Global Moorings in Henderson, Western Australia, has no moving parts to come in contact with the seabed and damage vital marine habitats.

Designed, engineered and tested to safely “Mooring chain scouring is responsible for secure boats, even in open water conditions, the destruction of vast areas of coral reef and EzyRider is manufactured from heavy-duty seagrass meadows, which nurture fish and but light weight, low maintenance corrosionother sealife and are critically important in the resistant materials. With no moving parts sustainability of commercial and recreational and fewer connection points, wear and fisheries,” says Global Moorings CEO David maintenance is considerably less for an Lightfoot. “The EzyRider Mooring System can EzyRider when compared with a conventional be safely established in coral and seagrass thus mooring system. The use of buoyancy and meeting best environmental practices.” tensioned rubbers to dissipate energy makes for an ‘easy ride’ and comfort on board without the jerky, snatch effect often experienced on other mooring systems.

The EzyRider can be installed to various anchoring systems in most marine locations and substrates and its self-centring action is claimed to reduce the total amount of vessel swing room by up to 50% providing significant space saving advantages at marinas.

Traditional mooring methods can damage the sea bed.

The EzyRider option is eco-friendly.

Global Mooring and its licensed contractor network have installed over 1,000 moorings in Australia since April 2000 and, if required, will proof load test each mooring immediately after installation. EzyRider’s estimated life expectancy is 10-15 years and it will last longer still if fitted with cathodic protection such as zinc anodes.

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Northern Dream

Brian Burns leads a double life. Many in our industry know him well as a Seaflex area manager and some also know him as a singer/songwriter who has spent the past 16 years singing and performing around the world.

Brian ushers in the New Year with the official launch of ‘Northern Dream’, a single inspired by the wild landscapes of northern Sweden and performed by ‘Burns’, a group of various musicians from different countries who come together to sing Brian’s songs. The single, which also features another new song ‘Where were you?’, is available on www.burnsmusic. net, www.tunecore.com and www.cdbaby.net and also from specially chosen retail outlets in Ireland, Sweden and Germany.

Born in Liverpool, Brian grew up in Ireland and performed as singer/frontman in bands such as Scream Vision and Seakings Dream in Dublin in the 1990s before moving to France in 1993. He then spent ten years in Germany touring all major cities and a few places in between. Performing solo and with his bands ‘Anish’ and ‘Burns’, he played in major festivals, concerts and gigs throughout Germany, Italy, Switzerland, France and the USA. Last summer he left Sweden and

returned to Ireland to work more intensively on his music.

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Refurbishing pedestals…

UK marina services specialist, Rolec, has set up a new department specifically to help customers refurbish their marina pedestals. programme also includes test and inspection Operations director, Holly Brown, explained: of electrical cables; water pipes and valves; “We have over 60,000 marina service pedestals electrical switchgear and lighting equipment; in use worldwide, many of which are over ten pressure testing water systems; and issue of a years old. Our lead selling classic pedestal was always designed to be assembled in a modular full test and recommendation report. format meaning the outer skins, lids and lenses can be easily removed from the pedestal and replaced with new at a very low cost.”

A recent project involved the refurbishment of 110 service pedestals on a nine year old 200-berth marina at a materials cost of just New marinas buy new pedestals, and one €3,400. “The marina operators used their own highlight order for Rolec in recent months maintenance engineer who removed all the old has been for the new Jolly Harbour Marina white skins and replaced them with new blue in Antigua. versions resulting in the pedestals looking “The Jolly Harbour project was particularly almost as good as new,” Brown explained. interesting due to the client’s specific “A small number of lids and lenses were also requirements,” commented Rolec project replaced, along with a couple of electrical engineer, Nigel Draper. “For example, each switches and the marina’s service pedestals Spinnaker service pedestal had to be designed and manufactured to provide dual electrical connections able to service both European and American boats.”

“There was also a high specification lighting brief which included the service Spinnakers having white LED low-level lighting and blue LED high-level ornamental lighting designed to provide a romantic ambiance,” Draper continued. Further lighting features included the new blue and white Combi-LED deck lights and blue underwater lights.

Pedestals in place at Jolly Harbour, Antigua.

The client is delighted with the installation and has placed a phase two order which is were ready for many more years of use.” currently in production.

Refurbishing existing Rolec pedestals can Contact Rolec Services in the UK on email: be completed for around 20% of the cost rolec@rolecserv.co.uk of new replacements and part of the new

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