On Thursday February 8th ,the PFYC received a letter and at the same time the other dockers in Port Franks Marina received the same letter directly, stating that an 80% dredging surcharge will be applied on top of the current publicly posted Lambton shore website  rate of $83.85 per foot plus HST. The surcharge is being applied to all 70 Port Franks Marina slips for the 2024 boating season. 

The Surcharge is intended to pay for ongoing dredging maintenance of the waterways around the Port Franks Marina and other areas in Port Franks and to pay the new disposal costs for the material dug out during the dredging process, as required under the new regulations brought in last year. 

The PFYC was not asked for, nor had any input into, or notice that this 80% surcharge was going to be applied to the 70 Marina slips starting the 2024 boating season.

Commodore George Lunick