Mooring Guidelines

 

Mooring Guidelines for the Harbormaster

  1. The harbor has capacity to hold approximately 75 moorings due to the configuration and natural harbor areas.  This is also a management consideration.  A waiting list shall be developed when maximum occupancy has been met, as determined by the harbormaster.
     

  2. Mooring permit request forms and mooring float and tackle verification forms must be turned in to the harbormaster by June 30th of each year.  Failure to do so may result in forfeiture of that mooring.
     

  3. When a mooring site becomes available, the harbormaster shall notify the Bonnet Shores Council. The committee chairperson shall notify the harbormaster of who the next person on the waiting list is.  The harbormaster shall then notify that person that a mooring site has become available to them.
     

  4. Any person who is notified by the harbormaster that a mooring has become available to them must pay the appropriate mooring fees and put appropriate mooring tackle at the designated site within 2 months of notification or forfeit the mooring site.
     

  5. Any person who has a mooring site shall have one year from date of notification to put a boat, registered to that person, on his/her mooring.  Failure to do so will result in forfeiture of that mooring to the next person on the waiting list.
     

  6. The harbormaster may grant permission for temporary use of a current, empty mooring to a member whose name is on the waiting list if there is agreement between the mooring holder and the person waiting to use the mooring.  The temporary use of that mooring shall not exceed one year.
     

  7. The harbormaster will have the authority to enforce guidelines pertaining to the launch ramp and mooring field.  The harbormaster may call the Narragansett Police or DEM to help with that enforcement.  The harbormaster may revoke launch permits or mooring permits for those found in violation.
     

 

 

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