Moorings Northland is your trusted partner for mooring inspection, maintenance and certification services. We issue swing mooring inspection certificates that meet the requirements of the Northland Regional Council (NRC) and insurance companies.
We are locally owned, have been delivering our services since 1984, and now service most moorings along Northland’s East Coast. Our experienced and professional mooring inspection and maintenance crew works to the highest standards. The service is objective, and we work to prescribed inspection guidelines issued by the NRC.
You can expect the best customer experience as we deliver value, provide great communication, are responsive, reduce hassle and paperwork, and provide the best solutions for your mooring needs.
Our barge is purpose built and is New Zealand’s best. Its gantry lifting, spudding, GPS technology, and deck management systems mean our services are fast, efficient and safe. We can “fix” our barge to the seabed, ensuring moorings are re-deployed with accuracy. Our barge is very manoeuvrable and is fitted with fenders. As a result, we can service your mooring with your vessel alongside.
Our pricing structure delivers the best value and reflects the time and commitment of resources to your mooring. We balance value and quality, meaning you pay a reasonable price for the best possible workmanship, design, and industry standard components and techniques. As a result, your mooring asset will last longer and be more economical for the long-term, and you’ll sleep soundly on a stormy night.
Mooring lift, inspection, cleaning, recording mooring details, including GPS and design, photographing components and redeployment. This typically takes 30 minutes. Extra boat handling charges may apply.
Following the mooring Inspection and Maintenance service Moorings Northland will provide a Certificate to you and the Northland Regional Council, verifying the inspection and maintenance. Other charges associated with the mooring inspection and maintenance include reporting and administration and consumables.
If the swing mooring inspection identifies mooring components that fail the NRC’s specified minimum safe thresholds, the NRC requires these to be replaced to achieve mooring certification. Barge and Labour is charged on a fixed fee basis for the first 30 minutes. This includes the barge coming alongside your mooring (and the boat if required), lifting and decking the mooring and time required for any works undertaken. After this initial period Barge and Labour is charged in 10 minute increments. Materials are applied separately. The actual costs will depend on the level of maintenance required and time spent on your mooring.
Following the service of your mooring you will be issued with an Inspection Certificate that will satisfy your mandatory mooring license obligations and should also validate your boat insurance. Boat insurance policies are highly likely to have terms requiring boat owners comply with the NRC mooring license terms, including ensuring that inspection, maintenance and certification obligations are satisfied. Moorings Northland holds “Approved Contractor” status with the NRC.
After the service, you will receive a personalised, detailed and customer-focused report that includes photographs, commentary of the inspection findings, the mooring design, the maintenance works undertaken, areas of particular interest or concern and where possible an estimate of maintenance work likely at the next inspection. Our objective is to give you transparency around the physical service provided because we appreciate that moorings, for the large part, remain “invisible” to the mooring owner.
Our systems aim to make your experience with the mooring inspection, maintenance and certification service easy. You don’t have to remember when your next inspection, maintenance and certification service is due. If we have your contact details, you will receive reminders around six months and three months prior. If this is missed, or a booking is not made, we will send you another reminder closer to your mooring’s due date. Once a mooring service is booked, our systems inform the NRC and they will stop sending you reminders and, eventually, non-compliance (fine) threats.
Moorings Northland has an exemplary safety record. We only work in safe operating conditions and do not work in high winds, heavy rain or rough seas. Due to our operating and safety plan, Maritime New Zealand has given Moorings Northland the lowest risk rating as a commercial maritime operator.
Thank you for choosing Moorings Northland to inspect and maintain your mooring. You can book an inspection by completing this form.
For more information about mooring inspections, maintenance and our other services, call (09) 402 6939 or email us.
Moorings Northland Limited
Unit 4, 1 Beechey Street
Opua 0200
PO Box 4
Opua 0241
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