100 new berths also proposed by trust
A significant upgrade at Whangarei's Town Basin marina is complete.
The $350,000 replacement of old wooden pontoons and piles on the Riverside waterfront took about 3 weeks.
Marina manager Brian Caulton, who looks after 187 berths at the Town Basin and 109 at Kissing Point, says the pontoons, which were already about 25 years old when they arrived from Okahu Bay marina, in Auckland, about 20 years ago had reached the end of their useful life.
They have been replaced with concrete pontoons providing berths for 24 vessels.