Booking Yard Services - Changes
If you want Yard Services (TL or cradles), you need to book these in the new online system. The TLO’s will not take bookings. They are employed to deliver work requested from the system. The onlinebooking process is easy to use and is the only way to book Yard services. In the mean time if you need help please contact the Office Manager.

Improving Our Professionalism and Focus on Health and Safety
1.    The Club Vessel Register will be updated, we will keep photos particularly of where to locate the TL strops for future haul outs. While these photos will be retained with the register, maintaining this information is the responsibility of vessel owners. if you make changes to your vessel that effect the TL it is the vessel owner’s responsibility to update the register. Once we get this done the Vessel Register will be linked to the Booking System to assist with the lift process.
2.    Vessel owners have a responsibility while their vessels are in the Travel Lift to provide guidance assistance to the TLO’s. We are purchasing VHF headsets to assist with the operator and owner communicating. If vessel owners choose not to perform this task the Club will provide a TL spotter which will be added to the owners
lift charges.
3.    When you make a booking, a description of the work to be done will need to be included. Several common vessel maintenance guides will be made available for owners to select. Work that involves creating debris that can become airborne or fall under the vessel needs to be contained to ensure compliance with EPA. Disposable ground sheets maybe required. This is an environmental requirement as much as a common curtesy not to foul adjacent vehicles and vessels. This is already in our terms but we will be applying greater focus with stop work notices issued for non-compliance and cost recovery charges to owners for any clean up required.
4.    The Club has some limited scaffolding that could be utilised for vessel maintenance. There will be an option for this scaffold when making a booking and a charge. Larger maintenance jobs may require complete raping and commercially compliant scaffold. If scaffold is not up to standard we run the risk of the whole yard being shut down as nearly happened at Seaview recently.
5.    We need vessel owners applying greater focus on cleaning up under their vessels before they are returned to the water, this includes returning the wooden blocks. Vessel owners should discuss with their TLO what assistance they require; debris left behind and not cleaned up will be done by Club employees and charged back to vessel owners.
6.    Yacht owners need to take special care that furlers and any other sails are well secured. Some nightmare scenarios were presented with yachts blown off cradles, TLO’s will remind vessel owners but it is the duty & liability of the vessel owner to take all reasonable care.
7.    The current condition and means of securing of Ladders for getting on and off vessels and doing maintenance is often non-complaint with our Yard H&S policy. Following national Marina Association rules, we will move to allowing certified ladders only. The Club may consider supplying ladders however meanwhile please ensure your ladder is safely secured and meets Work Safe requirements.