In St. Mary's Bay, as I said in my presentation, on the whole bay, we have six harbour authorities. The reason is that most people use one or the other. Even people from the Placentia area come over within the same area and tie on. They land in Riverhead, on from Admirals Beach, and then they could end up landing anywhere. But there are two different ports: there's the landing port, and then we have safe harbours. Our biggest problem is that during the summer there's not enough room for everyone to tie on because all the boats are out, and in the wintertime there is no real berthage.
On December first of last year I got home from holiday. They'd had a big storm, and I had two ropes busted off the boat in Admirals Beach. It's not really a safe harbour. I harbour there because if you go to O'Donnells, what happens? They're tied two abreast, so against the westerly wind, when you leave them there, everything gets beaten up. There's only room for six at the wharf; when you go on the side, it slaps around.
In Riverhead, where I put my own boat over winter, I got stuck. I had to come back and drive her in through the sand two or three times before I got in there. I got out the other day in high tide. Most of the bigger boats can't get into Branch because of the gulf that runs back and forth.
So I think in our area, if there were landing ports and safe harbours.... The biggest problem is that we haven't got enough safe harbours to put the boats in case of storms.