Boat runs aground

They can take time to identify the fact that the water levels are low but they don't take the time to evaluate the condition of their safety buoys... they cost what? $25 to replace?

stellar job. kingston prides itself on its highly accessible and historic waterfront and stupid small mistakes like this one will only continue to cost us.

To be perfect in one's own eyes is not necessarily the way others see you . From what I see the city of Kingston does a great job of looking after the harbor and the waterfront. Sometimes , no matter what measures are taken, mistakes happen. We really don't have any idea as to when the bout went missing. perhaps it was lost the day before, or what ever.
Go easy with the criticism , unless you are offering solutions.

That marker has not been there this year at all.
We have a boat at the tower and stop at least 5 boats a day from going through there.
How do you think visitors feel about their first visit to kingston, when their first expirience is smashing their boats on rocks that should have been clearly marked?
No effort is offered by the city, to greet boaters on the city hall side of the marina. There is not even phone number posted on the sea wall for visitors to call the marina office.
We see newcomers floundering around all the time, trying to figure out how to get in to the docks safely.
The piers should have instructions posted to indicate where to approch "B" dock.

The City is dead wrong in evading its responsibility here and pointing fingers elsewhere.

In 1994, while maneuvering my boat within the Loyalist Cove Marina in Bath, my boat struck an unmarked underwater structure and sustained damage to the hull. The owners of the marina, recognizing their obvious legal responsibility, immediately approved repairs to my boat by a marina near my home and paid the bill without complaint.

It is solely a marina's responsibility to indicate shoals and dangerous submarine structures within the marina to users of the marina, just as it is a restaurant's responsibility to rope off or warn about slippery floors. This has nothing to do with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, whose responsibility is to mark hazards in public channels of passage. Confed Basin is a commercial venture that charges for its services and is therefore no different in its legal status and liabilities from any privately owned marina.

Any damage to Mr. Efford's vessel should be repaired, without delay, at the cost of the owners of the marina (City of Kingston). Otherwise Mr. Efford has a clear legal action to recover damages. Mr. Efford should have his vessel inspected immediately for expensive and hard-to-detect underwater damage such has propshaft or rudder damage.

This is outrageous. The City is 100% responsible for this.

last year i towed a 60' sailboat of the shoal in the shallow water in front of the Tower.
The piers on the tour boat side of the marina shoild be fixed up properly. they look like they are falling apart and boaters are concerned about underwater hazards next to them.

Marina staff could take a few minutes each day to wash the duck crap off the docks as well!

The marina staff could have given better instructions to this arriving vessel. The staff should consider themselves lucky that little or no damage was done, and that they aren't liable. To the owners of Mi-T-Mo, I say WELCOME to kingston, and I hope the rest of your stay is better than your arrival. The marina has plenty of problems, there are collisions (with docks) and incidents almost every day. Most are because of inherent design flaws of the docking system. The prevailing wind is SW, and almost all the docks are beam-on to this wind, causing loss of control and bad situations. If you look at any other marina in the area, such as Gan municipal, or even portsmouth, you'll see that the majority of docks are head-to-wind, for ease of entry and exit. This aint rocket science, but the marina staff and boat owners suffer the consequences of bad desigh every time the wind blow, which in kingston is just about every single day of the summer.

The city can pass blame all they want, but they may want to make sure things go as smoothly as possible for visitors arriving by boat. Its called being proactive, not sitting on their hands. Ooops doesn't cut it.

Once again 'City Officals' try to pass the buck. The markers are the sole responsibility of the City. Hopefully the city will do the right thing and repair any damage to the boat in question.

A tug boat should be able to tug itself out of that mess. hrrrrrrrph, if you don't mind white and orange stripes painted on you, they need a new buoy down at the marina. It's 24/7 but the pay is good..

next time buy a smaller boat.........

Just another case of "sustained" neglect.

I think the City should compensate this tourist. They don't seem to have any problem reaping the rewards of the ever growing marina down there. They can't even keep the garbage picked up and seaweed away. The smell by the marina is embarassing. Maybe its not the garbage but all the asses across the street doing nothing.

look at the tug should not be there in the first place to big the owner should know that he owns the eye sore

why does no one complain about the pollution this ole girl spits out way way more the the poker run boats

Sharkey; It's no more than a recycling truck.

Factless has made a lot of stupid remarks here but none so dumb as a saying a tug boat should be able to tug itself out. Stupid is as stupid says.