An abandoned boat and trailer has crowded an Auckland street for almost a year and is annoying local business owners.
House of Knives owner John Fryer drives down Nikau st, in Mt Eden on his way to work. He said the boat has been there since November last year, except for a few weeks over summer.
The boat has no registration or warrant of fitness label.
Fryer called Auckland Transport three times in the last year to try and get them to remove the boat. But each time they responded that they can't treat the boat as abandoned until they've written to the owner, with no registration plates they haven't been able to find the owner to write to them.
"Which seems ridiculous if I was to put it on Mt Eden Rd would it stay there as long?