A BOAT owner is furious after discovering thousands of pounds worth of damage to his vessel after it was knocked off the blocks on which it had spent the winter by a car which did not stop.

VANDALS who drilled holes into vessels moored at Grand Havre could have caused a fatal accident, it was claimed yesterday.

IT IS difficult not to have sympathy for those Guernsey boatowners and fishermen who will be affected by the harbour authority’s decision to scrap the monthly mooring fee facility and instead demand an annual lump.

BOATOWNERS have launched a campaign against what they see as the States constantly targeting them.

THE lifeboat was called out yesterday afternoon when a Portsmouth-registered yacht ran into trouble six miles off St Martin’s Point.

LIVES were put in danger after the fuel tank from the Flying Christine III’s tender was stolen, the deputy chief ambulance officer has said.

AS I wrote this column, Sark was going to the polls to elect four conseillers who will sit in Chief Pleas until December of next year when they, along with 10 sitting members, will be eligible to stand for re-election.

A SUGGESTION that boaters should be forced to have mandatory certificates of competence has been rejected by experts in the field.

A FRENCH powerboat got stuck on rocks yesterday trying to get into the QEII Marina when tide was too low.

LAST weekend, on a hot and sunny Saturday afternoon, while most visitors headed straight for Shell Beach, a group of Guernsey boaters gathered on the beach near the harbour.