Designated anchorage area buoys were installed in Deep Cove this past week by the District of North Vancouver.
The four buoys will allow boat owners visiting Deep Cove to register and pay an anchorage fee to moor for up to 72 hours. The booking and payment system is expected to be launched on July 1, 2022.
The designated anchorage area in Deep Cove allows District to designate specific mooring locations and limit the time boats can remain anchored in Deep Cove. Boats will be able to moor to one of the buoys for a maximum of 72 hours within a one-month period after paying a daily anchor fee.
The District’s proposal aims to address concerns over long-term boat anchorage in Deep Cove, which include:
Environmental impacts from spills and waste from the boats.
The potential for boats to break free from anchorage and either beach or damage other vessels and infrastructure, such as docks.
The costs associated with seizing and disposing of derelict and abandoned boats, which runs into tens of thousands of dollars, depending on the size of the boat.
Recreational impacts, and objections from waterfront residents about the aesthetics of boats in an unmanaged anchorage area.
Environmental impacts from spills and waste from the boats.
-These changes do not mitigate this risk in any measurable way
The potential for boats to break free from anchorage and either beach or damage other vessels and infrastructure, such as docks.
-These changes do not mitigate this risk in any measurable way
The costs associated with seizing and disposing of derelict and abandoned boats, which runs into tens of thousands of dollars, depending on the size of the boat.
-These costs are not borne by DNV residents unless DNV chooses to pay for them. By default
they’re a Federal and Provincial cost.
Recreational impacts, and objections from waterfront residents about the aesthetics of boats in an unmanaged anchorage area.
-Here’s the REAL reason DNV has now assumed a massive responsibility and associated cost. People, who moved to the Cove because it was quaint, decided the vessels at rest and in their viewscape did not meet their updated aesthetic criteria. All DNV residents will now have to bear cost and risk for this new responsibility, to appease a very select and elite few.
I’m going to hazard a guess and say that the new anchorage rules were put in because people were anchoring permanently and were also leaving derilect boats there.
One only has to look at the junk in False Creek or Squamish harbour to see the problem.
DNV BYLAW 8450: 9(i) “No person shall moor a vessel at an anchor buoy unless such vessel is insured and registered with Transport Canada or its replacement or successor from time to time.”
TC is in no way involved in the insuring of vessels.
TC only requires registration of commercial vessels with a gross tonnage of 15 or more, which would not apply to small boats that these moorings are intended for.
How is that supposed to work?
…paranoid, classist NIMBYISM triumphs, once again… way to go wealthy elitists!… brought to you by the same people who always have a romantic painting of boats at anchor on their wall… I guess real boats don’t meet their painterly standards… disgusting poor-bashing… they should be ashamed… but they have no shame…