Cullen Bay Marina | Lock Procedures

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	Cullen Bay Lock Procedures Please ensure you follow these lock procedures to avoid any problems when going through the lock: Call Lockmaster on VHF channel 11 or by phone on 0419 421363 to arrange transit through the lock. This must be done at least one hour prior to the desired entry time. Lock opening times are on the hour between 6am and 10pm seven days a week. Carefully guide the boat up the channel toward the lock. There has been recent shoaling in the channel and a small yellow buoy has been placed in the channel to mark the south end of the shoal. You must leave the Yellow Buoy to Port. DO NOT pass close to the day marker as you are likely to run aground. There are range markers on the rock breakwater to guide you up the channel, but they are not always easy to spot. The lockmaster will usually provide some guidance to boats if they need it. When the lockmaster tells you to enter the lock, slowly enter and tie up to the side the lockmaster dictates. Put out as many fenders on that side as possible to protect the hull from the barnacle encrusted concrete wall. Boat captains must follow ALL orders of the lockmaster. Ask the lockmaster how far you will either rise or fall in the process so you can determine how high or low you need to place your lines. One person should be standing amidships with the stern line. Pass the stern line between either the recessed piping and lock wall or the ladder and lock wall at the place where the stern of the boat will end up, making sure that it is far enough inside the lock so that the doors can close. Remember that the line should be placed as high or as low on the wall as you can reach to account for the rise/fall of the boat. Hand bitter end of the line back to the helmsperson so that they may handle it. As the boat continues to slowly move forward, pass the bow line between either the recessed piping and lock wall or the ladder and lock wall at the place where the bow will come to rest. Place a half-wrap of the line around boat cleats, but do NOT make fast. The helmsperson should turn off all engines after tying up. Only start engines once lock gates are open to exit from the lock. The lockmaster will then close the doors and start to fill or empty the lock of water to move the boat to the proper level of the water in the marina or outside. Either take in or let out on the lines as the boat rises or falls. Hold the lines securely, as there can be some turbulence inside the lock. Once the proper water level has been reached, the lock doors will open. Once given the intruction to move off by the Lockmaster, the helmsman should then pull the stern line free and back onboard while the bow person does the same. Slowly move forward out of the lock and into the marina. In general, if you are going in the lock at low tide, you may be rising as much at three to five meters. At high tide, you will usually only need to be lowered about two meters as the water level in the marina is kept close to high tide. For this reason it is better for vessel owners to try and transit at or near high tide. Cullen Bay Lock Usage Fee Structure The Cullen Bay Marina By-Laws require that the owners of berths must maintain a lock opening permit for those berths and that the corporation may charge an appropriate fee for those lock opening permits for berths.Since its inception the corporation has charged berth owners that fee which is raised pursuant to by-laws 3 and 12. That fee is payable by the owners of berths, regardless of whether a vessel is moored at that particular berth or not. The Cullen Bay Marina By-Laws also provide that the owner of a vessel must have a current lock opening permit in respect of the vessel (i.e. separate from the lock opening permit for the berth).Again, the by-laws provide that the corporation may charge an appropriate fee for such a vessel lock opening permit. For calendar year 2006 and for subsequent years all vessels entering or leaving the boat harbour must have a vessel lock opening permit (i.e. separate from a berth lock opening permit which applies to the berth at which the particular vessel may be moored). The commercial vessel lock opening permit fee for calendar year 2007 will be $55 per exit inclusive of GST, after the first 30 exits, which shall be without charge. The larger vessels with a footprint that occupies the entire lock are being charged differently from other vessels from 1 June 2006 in that they will be granted no free exits and each exit will incur a fee of $100. Private vessels (those vessels that are not ‘in survey’) in 2007 shall be allowed 30 exits without charge, and thereafter will be charged $33 (inclusive of GST) per exit. Casual users ( those vessels that are launched from the boat ramp) will be charged $33 (inclusive of GST) for a one off Vessel Lock Opening Permit. Casual users are to report to the Lockmasters office to purchase their VLOP before exiting from the lock. Temporary users (those vessels that are visiting from other ports and are not normally berthed within the marina) will be charged a one off lock arrival fee of $55.00 inclusive of GST and then they will be subject to the same conditions as for private or commercial vessels depending on their category. Fees must be paid to the lockmaster upon berthing. Notwithstanding that these vessel lock opening permit fees are to be charged by reference to the number of exits of a particular vessel, they are being raised pursuant to by-laws 3 and 12, the same by-laws which govern the raising of the berth lock opening permit fee. Whilst the by-laws require that vessels have a lock opening permit, the by-laws do not require that that permit be printed and provided to each owner. The corporation intends to retain the permits in electronic form with its agent Whittles, but to make a hard copy available to each vessel owner should it be requested.The by-laws provide that the permit should contain certain information and you are invited to make contact with Julie Lewis at Whittles to ensure that Whittles has the following information in relation to your vessel: 1. The full name and postal address of the owner of the vessel. 2. The name of the vessel and any other particulars which would enable the identification of the vessel. 3. Its regular mooring within the boat harbour.