Club Mooring locations and Mooring Protocol

One of the primary purposes of the Twin Bridges Cruising Club is to provide moorings for its Members within the Broken Bay & Pittwater areas. 
We have 5 moorings in Refuge Bay, 2 in Americas Bay and 1 in the Basin, Pittwater.
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Club Membership numbers are limited, in accordance with the Club’s Membership & Association Rules, to ensure that the ratio of Club Members to moorings allows every Member reasonable access.  The Club arranges maintenance services
and insurance for the moorings to provide Club Members with a high degree of certainty that the moorings are safe to use.
 
Club Members bear the responsibility for the appropriate and safe use of the Club’s moorings.  As such, it is important that all Members adhere to the Club’s Mooring Protocol and all Statutory regulations when using the moorings to ensure that the safety and comfort of themselves and others is not compromised.
 
All Club Members are bound by the Mooring Rules, shown opposite, when using Club Moorings.

               
TWIN BRIDGES CRUISING CLUB MOORING PROTOCOL
 
1)  The use of Club moorings is available to financial Club Members ONLY.  All Members should fly the club pennant on their boat while moored.  In addition, the current year “Twin Bridges” sticker should be reasonably visible from outside the boat. 
Failure to observe these requirements indicates that the vessel is a non-member.  Members may (politely) ask non-member vessels to leave Club moorings.

2) Members using the moorings are required to make themselves aware of all Statutory requirements related to being on the mooring, including any requirements of arrival, departure and restrictions applicable to the locality (including going ashore).

3) No Member is to be denied access to the mooring(s) at any time, provided that the addition of another boat would not overload the mooring apparatus or contravene any regulation mentioned herein, with special emphasis on safety.

4) At all times, securing of boats, must be in such a way that there is no risk of damage to other boats.  In raft ups, appropriate use of fenders, fore and aft springers, plus bow and stern ropes is recommended as a minimum. 
Members are to ensure that the controllers of adjacent boats agree that the securing methods are satisfactory to both
parties.

5) Members, whether occupying a mooring alone, or as part of a raft up, must ensure that the Member, or a suitably competent operator of their boat, is available at all times to deal (in the appropriate timeframe) with any situation
which may reasonably arise.  Specifically, in a raft up, there must be one such person for each boat.

6) When rafting up, members are responsible for monitoring weather conditions at all times.  Should weather conditions
deteriorate to the state that the mooring apparatus may be moved or damaged, or the safety of Members’ boats in the raft-up or surrounding vessels is compromised, the last boat(s) to arrive must leave. 
As a guide it suggested that the maximum number of boats rafted on one mooring should be 5 during daylight hours and 3 during darkness.  However as stated above it is the responsibility of each skipper to ensure the safety of his/her crew
and vessel, taking into account the prevailing weather conditions. 
 
7) Members are responsible for ensuring that their boats do not interfere with the comfort or safety of boats properly moored on adjacent moorings.  This also applies to all activities conducted from the Member’s boat – such as use of tenders and the like.

8)  In the event of a Member noticing any damage to a mooring, including shifting from its proper location, they should contact the Secretary/Public Officer or any other Committee member as soon as possible. 
Members should not use moorings if there is any doubt as to their safety.

9) Removal of non-club members from club moorings.  If a member encounters a non club member using a mooring which the club member wishes to use, your first action should be to inform the non club member that they are on a club mooring and you wish to use it.  If they refuse to move your only other course of action is to contact either the local NSW
Maritime Boating Officer or the local Water Police. 
Do not attempt to physically remove the non member.   

Twin Bridges Moorings are all marked -“TWIN BRIDGES C. C.”

Latitude and Longitude figures below are to help locate the moorings. 
They are given as a guide only and may be different from that found in practice, due to usual GPS tolerance, tides and current and last, not least, movement of the moorings caused by minor adjustments during servicing and overloading when in use.  None the less, the published positions should normally bring a vessel sufficiently close to enable visual identification of the mooring.

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