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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2017
Port, boat owner spar over unpaid moorage
Tomingas may
owe $10,000
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
The Port of Astoria is headed
to arbitration with a charter boat
owner the agency is suing for
unpaid moorage.
The Port in August sued Henry
Tomingas, owner of the passen-
ger ship Wilderness Explorer, for
$10,000 in overdue moorage. Tom-
ingas is listed as the owner of Ocean
Adventures, an inactive Alaskan
company that charter s vessels.
The Port claims Tomingas agreed
to pay $936 a month in moorage in
November 2015 ; but since Septem-
ber 2016 has refused to pay $10,000
worth of moorage fees. The agency
is seeking $10,000 in economic
damages, attorney fees and pre and
post-judgment interest.
Tomingas, who lives in Gird-
wood, Alaska, responded this week,
arguing the Wilderness Explorer was
on a bareboat charter with Califor-
nia-based education and science non-
profi t Mountain and Sea. A bareboat
charter is an arrangement in which
the lessee is responsible for a vessel’s
crew and provisions.
Tomingas claims the nonprofi t
was responsible for all costs associ-
ated with the vessel. He also blamed
the run-down conditions at North
Tongue Point for damage to the Wil-
derness Explorer.
“The Port of Astoria is negligent
in providing substandard wharfage
with damaged and broken off pil-
ing with no warning posted,” Tomin-
gas wrote. “The defendant’s boat was
damaged by broken piling and iron
rods exposed.”
A judge has assigned the case to
arbitration.
Marina: ‘We’re responsible for seven boats that aren’t ours’
down and down.”
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Revenue loss
But the Oregon State Marine
Board says more and more of
that money is going toward the
cleanup of former commercial
vessels instead — everything
from tugs to salmon trollers.
Bigger and heavier, these boats
are much more expensive to
deal with.
“When we look at the state
fund, we spend a dispropor-
tionate amount of money on
removing former commercial
vessels,” said Rachel Graham,
the marine board’s interim
director. “It’s an equity issue.”
But for public marinas and
ports, derelict commercial
boats are the problem at hand.
Boat dreams
The
Abandoned/Dere-
lict Commercial Vessel Task
Force, a shifting group that
includes representatives from
ports, public marinas, sheriff’s
offi ces, state agencies and sal-
vage companies, was created
early last year to try to answer
questions and gather informa-
tion around the issues of com-
mercial boats that have been
dropped at ports and mari-
nas or left in state waterways.
They hope to release a paper
with their fi ndings by the end
of the year.
Even getting a good sense
Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
A damaged boat sits idle in the Warrenton Marina on Tuesday as the marina attempts to
contact owners about removing their property from the facility.
of how many commercial ves-
sels are in the state was chal-
lenging, said Graham. No
one agency interacts with or
records all commercial ves-
sels. But the big hurdle still
in their way is the question of
money.
The state’s derelict boat
fund provides $150,000 per
biennium for the removal of
abandoned or derelict boats up
to 200 gross pounds or, to use
a different measurement, up to
about 100 feet in length.
“If we were just focus-
ing on recreational boats our
$150,000 would probably be
suffi cient for what we get, but
when we agree to participate
in assisting in removing com-
mercial boats, we deplete our
fund pretty quickly,” Graham
said.
Last biennium, the state
agreed to put funds toward
removing three commercial
vessels. A federal grant and a
boost from the Oregon Depart-
ment of State Lands offset
some of the cost, but “with
three boats we almost used all
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through age 21 with disabilities who have not graduated from high
school and are not attending nor receiving other special-education
services from public schools.
Oregon and federal law mandate appropriate educational services
for children with disabilities. NWRESD provides educational services
for eligible children from birth to kindergarten. Local school districts
provide educational programs and services for eligible children from
kindergarten through high school. These services are provided as
appropriate to each child’s needs and disability.
Parents, guardians, and others who know of a child aged 5 through 21
with a disability who is not currently receiving educational services are
asked to notify the special-education contact for their home district,
including:
DISTRICT
Astoria
Jewell
Knappa
Seaside
Warrenton-Hammond
Distrito de Servicio Educativo de la Región Noroeste (NWRESD) y los distritos
escolares del Condado de Clatsop desean ayudar a ubicar a niños con disca-
pacidades (reción nacidos hasta la edad de 21 años) que no say hayan grad-
uado de la enseñanza preparatoria (educación media superior) y que actual-
mente no se encuentren recibiendo otros servicios de educación especial en
las escuelas publicas.
El Ley de Oregon y la Ley Federal ordenan que se provea servicios educativos
apropiados para niños con discapacidades. El NWRESD proporciona servicios
educativos desde el nacimiento hasta el kindergarten para los niños que
sean elegibles. Los distritos educativos locales proven programas educativos
y servicios para los niños elegibles desde el Kindergarten hasta la Enseñanza
Media Superior (Preparatoria). Estos servicios son proporcionados de acuerdo
con las necesidades de cada niño y su discapacidad.
Se solicita a los padres, tutores legales, u otras personas que conocen a algun
niño (en edad de cinco a 21 años*) con alguna discapacidad y que no se
encuentre recibiendo servicios educativos, que contacten al distrito escolar de
su localidad abajo enlistados.
TELEPHONE
503-325-0476
503-755-2451 ext. 2470
503-458-6162 option 2
503-738-5591
503-861-3376
DISTRITO
Astoria
Jewell
Knappa
Seaside
Warrenton-Hammond
For children younger than kindergarten age, call the NWRESD’S
Clatsop Service Center at 503-325-2862.
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of our money,” Graham said.
For salvage companies,
it’s diffi cult to build a good
business plan around remov-
ing derelict boats in Ore-
gon. The work they do for the
state or ports and marinas are
“one off” jobs and the costs to
boat owners are steep. So the
dilemma remains: “How do
you make owners pay to recy-
cle their boats?” Graham said.
“The easier option for
many is to sell it to someone
else who has boat dreams …
and it just keeps getting passed
This year, for the fi rst time
in 12 years, all the vessels at
the Warrenton Marina’s com-
mercial docks are working
boats.
“Every single one of
them,” said Harbormaster Jane
Sweet. “That in itself is a huge
achievement. … and I want to
keep it that way.”
The seven derelict boats
on her list right now have
been moved elsewhere in the
marina to open up space.
Such boats represent a
loss of revenue in more ways
than one. They camp in slips
a working boat, with own-
ers who pay moorage fees
and looks after their prop-
erty, could occupy. With-
out an active owner attached,
marina staff take on a babysit-
ting role. They check the boats
after storms hit the area. Many
of the vessels require pumps
running day and night to keep
them afl oat, another task and
cost that fall on the shoulders
of marina staff.
When Western Skies sank
at the docks in July and began
leaking fuel, the incident con-
sumed Sweet’s time. She and
her staff had to act quickly
to keep a bad situation from
growing worse, coordinate
with the U.S. Coast Guard,
fi gure out how to contain the
leaks, get the boat fl oating
again and keep it afl oat. When
power went out for nearly half
an hour during a weekend
storm this month, staff raced
to the marina keep an eye on
Western Skies and the other
abandoned boats.
Warrenton faces a growing
demand for slips and Sweet is
increasing efforts to deal with
problem boats. To stem the
fl ow of abandoned vessels into
the marina, she now requires
people to provide proof of
insurance and current docu-
mentation and registration.
Marina staff are being pro-
active about the seizure pro-
cess. But only one owner of
a derelict boat in recent years
has cleared his account with
the marina. Warrenton’s sei-
zure notices went out as cer-
tifi ed mail. Most came back
unaccepted.
If no owners step up before
the deadlines in the seizure
process run out, the marina
could sell the vessels for parts.
It’s possible some money from
the marine board could also
come Warr enton’s way. Sweet
isn’t sure yet what they’ll do.
For now, and perhaps for
the foreseeable future, she
said, “We’re responsible for
seven boats that aren’t ours.”
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