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Distribution 986-1337 64 pages 25¢

NEWS photo Stuart Davis

Blaze battled

FIREFIGHTERS IN North Vancouver District practised their fire-fighting skills
4 Thursday, when they burned down this house at the corner of 29th Street and Duchess
B Avenue. The house was scheduled to be demolished, so the North Vancouver District
Fire Department sought permission to use it as part of their training.

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PAGE 35

SEVENTY PER CENT of Horseshoe Bay’s Transport
Canada dock will be closed April 15 following complaints
from an area business that vessels using the wharf are en-

croaching on its water lot lease.

Transport Canada spokesman
Shannon Dodman said the wharf’s
three east floats will be affected by
the closure.

Any vessel tying up on the south
side of the floats after April 15, he
said, will be trespassing on the
water Jot now leased by Sewell’s
Marina from the District of West
Vancouver.

Dodman said a recent Transport
Canada survey confirmed a
previous survey conducted for
Sewell’s, that found all boats
docking on the south side of the
three floats were encroaching on
the marina’s water lot.

“In fact, the surveys determined
that the south edge of the floats
themselves were encroaching on
Sewell’s lot,’’ Dodman said.

The three floats make up ap-
proximately 262 of the dock’s 377
feet of berthing space.

Transport Canada's Horseshoe
Bay wharf provides temporary
public docking for fishing and
pleasure vessels and such services
as water taxis.

Sewell’s Marina took over what
is now a 20-year lease from Bay
Boat Rentals when that company
failed to renew its business licence
in January.

Bay Boats had held the lease
since 1979,

Dodman said the boat rental
company had not previously com-
plained about Transport Canada’s
encroachment into its water lot,

The fate of the wharf’s three
floats, he said. is currently under
negotiation. He declined to com-
ment further.

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW

Dodman added that boaters un-
able to find space at the Horseshoe
Bay dock will be urged to use the
Transport Canada wharf in Snug
Cove on Bowen Island.

‘“‘They (Transport Canada
wharves) are primarily for tran-
sient boaters,’’ he said. ‘‘We are
not in the business of providing a
parking lot for vessels."’

“|.(Transport Canada
wharves) are primarily
for transient boaters.
We are not in the
business of providing
a parking lot for
vessels.””

Transport Canada
spokesman
Shannon Dodman

Director of parks and recreation
for West Vancouver Frank Kurucz
said Friday the length of the water
lot’s lease was extended from five
to 20 years for Sewell’s because the
marina plans to invest $500,000 in
a five-year plan to replace floats
and improve boat launching and
other facilities in the lease area.

Sewell’s owner Dan Sewell was
unavailable for comment to press
time Criday,