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Tuesday 24 April 2018
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MORNINGTON Yacht Club commodore Chris Jackson believes the time is right to again press for a marina, or “safe boat haven” at Mornington. Picture: Yanni
Calls for marina resurface Stephen Taylor steve@mpnews.com.au THE storm which battered the Mornington Peninsula, Saturday 14 April, has renewed calls for a marina at Mornington. Plans for an $18 million, 170-berth floating marina to provide a safe haven for moored boats were abandoned in early 2010, but not before Mornington
Yacht Club, Parks Victoria and other government departments had spent about $1 million on consultants’ reports to justify a marina. The latest storm three boats on the beach and broke handrails and decking on the pier. The renewed push for a marina has already been raised with Mornington Peninsula councillors and its proponents are again likely to face a new
storm of condemnation within the community. Last Wednesday, club commodore Chris Jackson and CEO Wayne Holdsworth along with Australian Sailing’s regional manager Gavin Wall and the club’s future directions group member Simon Purcell, met at the club with the mayor Cr Bryan Payne and councillors Bev Colomb and Sam Hearn. Although Cr Colomb said the meet-
ing was planned weeks before, and that the abandoned 2010 marina project was only briefly discussed, the storm was certainly top of mind among the sailors. Mr Jackson had said on the club’s social media page (5.23pm, Saturday 14 April): “So sad that a safe harbour was approved by the state government [in 2010] yet knocked back by local government inaction (at the time).”
He praised club members whose “eight hours of hard, skilled, dangerous work today saved seven boats”. “Sadly, three are now on the beach and one at least is beyond repair,” he said. “Yes, when the pier is finally repaired it will be better, but it would not have saved two of the boats today. It will not be a safe harbour [which is] bloody disappointing. Continued Page 4
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