Re: [bolger] Re: LIVING ABOARD BANNED
The Bay of Plenty Regional Council (New Zealand) appears to have made it
illegal to sleep aboard a boat in the area controlled by it. This includes
the Tauranga Harbour and an area extending along that part of the coast
controlled by that Council to a distance of 10 nautical miles out to sea.
Tauranga is a port and ships stop there for several days. Needless to say
the crews do not go ashore to sleep in the local hotels. The rule is
unenforced in respect of cargo ships, unenforcible in respect of boats
cruising along the coast but I presume the Council would try and enforce the
rule if it was made aware of some individual regularly sleeping aboard in
Tauranga Harbour. Whether some petty official would get out of bed and go
out in a boat on a dirty night with intent to prove that an individual boat
owner is asleep on board is questionable.
Not so long ago someone built a houseboat with the intention of using it on
Lake Taupo. I understand that the Taupo District Council could not find a
suitable byelaw to stop this practice so they got the houseboat owner on the
grounds that the houseboat did not comply with the building regulations in
that it did not have sufficient headroom!
We could probably start an e-mail discussion group just to cover this sort
of nonsense.
Roger.
illegal to sleep aboard a boat in the area controlled by it. This includes
the Tauranga Harbour and an area extending along that part of the coast
controlled by that Council to a distance of 10 nautical miles out to sea.
Tauranga is a port and ships stop there for several days. Needless to say
the crews do not go ashore to sleep in the local hotels. The rule is
unenforced in respect of cargo ships, unenforcible in respect of boats
cruising along the coast but I presume the Council would try and enforce the
rule if it was made aware of some individual regularly sleeping aboard in
Tauranga Harbour. Whether some petty official would get out of bed and go
out in a boat on a dirty night with intent to prove that an individual boat
owner is asleep on board is questionable.
Not so long ago someone built a houseboat with the intention of using it on
Lake Taupo. I understand that the Taupo District Council could not find a
suitable byelaw to stop this practice so they got the houseboat owner on the
grounds that the houseboat did not comply with the building regulations in
that it did not have sufficient headroom!
We could probably start an e-mail discussion group just to cover this sort
of nonsense.
Roger.