A boat owner faces a bill for damage, estimated at $20,000 or more, after parking his vessel in the wrong spot.
As a result, the owner of one of Whanganui's river tourism boats has been given a clear message from the Whanganui District Council about where he can and cannot moor his boat.
Robert "Baldy" Baldwin operates the Adventurer II mainly on the lower reaches of the Whanganui River but twice this year council has written to him and fellow shareholders concerned about where the boat was being moored alongside the riverside walkway.
The boat had been tied up to the wooden boardwalk behind 7 - 9 Taupo Quay just downstream from the permanent mooring occupied by the PS Waimarie.
Council wrote to Mr Baldwin in June asking him to shift the Adventurer II from where it was tied up against the boardwalk and offered him six months free mooring at the City Marina downstream from the City Bridge.