2. WHAT IS THERE NOW?

 

The Mornington Harbour covers 4.2 hectares flanked by the Foreshore and the Pier. The Harbour currently can accommodate about 60 swing moorings. On average, about 40 swing moorings have been in use the last couple of years. In addition, there are 35 berths available along Fisherman’s Jetty and another 8 along the seawall outside the Mornington Yacht Club (MYC). 
The Schnapper Point Precinct includes the Harbour, the historic Mornington Pier, Mornington Park, headlands of Schnapper Point and Red Bluff and the related foreshores extending up to the Esplanade.

Mothers Beach

This work was carried out to accommodate a large area to be leased to the Mornington Yacht Club near the Historic Pier, new twin public boat ramps, a public slipway, access roads leading to parking for 37 cars with boat trailers, as well as parking for the Volunteer Coast Guard/ Emergency Services, and also parking for  64 other vehicles, including 4 for the disabled and one loading zone . These works completely altered the original harbour precinct with its original 1850s jetties.
                                                             
Mornington Yacht Club currently has 4 dedicated berths at Fishermans Jetty, and operates on the leased land with an office, club facilities, hard stand boat storage yard which incorporates the public slipway, a private ramp for launching and retrieving trailer boats, two  electric cranes for lifting boats from the Inner Harbour onto trailers, a low-level platform with finger jetty for disabled sailing.

electric cranes for lifting boats	private ramp for launching and retrieving trailer boats
Public Slipway	platform with finger jetty for disabled sailing

MYC  now controls the 60 swing moorings potentially available in Mornington Harbour on behalf of Parks Victoria .

 

Development in 1965 /1966 entailed:

•  a major re-development of the original harbour precinct which was driven by the Mornington Yacht Club since the mid-1950’s. This culminated in the mid-1960’s with approval for a plan which  involved construction of a seawall extending from Mothers Beach to the Historic Pier,

 

•  placing and levelling of fill behind this seawall and asphalting of the whole area, including the land now leased by the Mornington Yacht Club,

 

• construction of twin  public launching ramps for trailer boats,

•  associated access roads and parking for 37 vehicles with boat trailers,  and also another 64 motor vehicles,

 

• building Mornington Yacht Club clubhouse,

• public slipway and associated dolphins,

 

•  private launching ramp.

• Since then two electric cranes have also been installed on the seawall to lift smaller keel-boats from the Inner Harbour onto trailers for storage in the yard,

 

The club building was refurbished in 2001, including a new control tower and development of ‘The Rocks’  restaurant as a separately leased business.

A platform and finger jetty to facilitate sailing by disabled people was also constructed later in the Inner Harbour, adjacent to the seawall outside the Mornington Yacht Club.

 

 

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