Torbay Harbour Authority and Beaches are transitioning to a cashless service across all offices, quaysides, and beaches. This will cover, among other things, visitor charges, launch and recovery, electric, and short-term beach hut hires.
This change will apply from Monday 14th April. Our goal is to streamline operations, improve the safety of our staff and the service efficiency.
Continue the restriction on personal watercraft launching from beaches.
Encourage all personal watercraft to use the data tag system.
All personal watercraft to be registered by Tor Bay Harbour Authority prior to launching.
Continue to require proof of insurance as a condition of registration – level of cover to be no less than 3 million pounds.
Operate a two tier charging scheme to encourage formal personal watercraft training
Introduce fixed penalties for certain Harbour Bye-law offences – as and when allowed by central government.
Not to allow any commercially operated personal watercraft – for hire, other than those used by operators that meet the PWC operator’s licence conditions and have been issued a valid licence.
Apply the necessary regulative measures and objectives to personal watercraft emanating from the
Follow the appropriate guidelines from 'Managing Personal Watercraft – A guide for local and harbour authorities' published by the BMF and RYA.
Monitor and review all incidents and near miss incidents reported to the Harbour Authority involving PWC
Controls
Tor Bay Harbour Bye-laws shall be used to underpin the objectives set out above. In particular, the following bye-laws shall apply:
No. 3 Interpretation (see definition of 'vessel')
No. 14 Competent Persons to be in Charge of Vessels
