In our area, which is not a big area--it's probably one of the smaller bays--there are not that many harbours. We have a harbour in O'Donnells here and there were a good many dollars spent on it a couple of years ago--I think it was $1.2 million. They put some armour stone and that out, but it's only safe to the point where you can tie on one boat. Once you tie the second boat on and you get strong winds, you start flopping around. So with a small amount of money, that could become a safe harbour for more people, if you tied two on.
When you go into Branch, that's a safe harbour, but not all boats can access Branch. Anyone with larger drafts can't get in there, and once you're in there, you're safe pretty well for the winter. And now you're dealing with Riverhead, which was fighting, because a few years ago they had the wharf on the north side of Riverhead for small crafts only, but nobody was using it, and they were all using the gut, the pond that was safe. Back a few years ago they got permission to change.... They commissioned a wharf on the north side, I believe, and they got a harbour authority to look after the gut. Now, that harbour authority is probably the safest harbour in the bay. I had my boat tied on there for the first time. As I said, I beat in there, but once you're in there, I think you're pretty secure. Any dollars that you spend on Riverhead will be there for good. There's no tide. There's no wind. You can probably tie her on with a shoe string. And it's there for life. The wharf there is not something that will be beaten up or could possibly be knocked down at a later time.
So that's how you determine where the best place is, and we have pretty well only the three places.