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I took a drive down to Mordialloc a few weeks ago.
Seems the old boat yard is about to turn into a supermarket.
There are dozens of really beautiful old wooden boats there, slowly rotting away.
This seems outrageous seeing as the council have a sculpture right on the bridge commemorating the builders Jack and Joe Pompei.
Does anyone know what the story is. I was talking to an old bloke about it. he started to cry.
Are there any rescue operations afoot?
Sad news. I used to drive over from Western Port every once in a while to talk to Jack, but the last time was a decade or so ago. They were doing all right then -- just as I'd always remembered them. Do we know any more about what's happened?
Progress ? :no:
Steve
Since Jack died, Joe has been working whenever he can, and that was regularly untill mid was through last year. Last I was there was late 2013 and Joe was a bit crook off and on. Leon is still selling paint and running his slip accross from Pompei's shed, but since Jack's wife Gwen passed on last year the council has been "reviewing " his lease.
Local legend's son in deep water over family's creek lease
It will not be a supermarket as I am led to beleive the council has desegnatewd the area a marine precinct. I'm not sure of the legality of this. It would be great if there was a covernant to the title so there is an ongoing micro industry to keep the wooden boats maintained in the creek.
Thanks, Hallam. A marine precinct is what it certainly has always been, and so it should remain. (The legality should depend solely on what planning zone the council has designated the land to be, and if they want it to be a marine precinct they only have to say so -- unless VCAT upholds an appeal, of course, which is perfectly possible as their decisions almost always seem to defy common-sense....)
More than once I've seen traffic on the highway held up in both directions while a low-loader took a new fishing-boat across the road to be launched; and stopping to look at all the small wooden runabouts in the Creek was always a delight.
A sad ending to a happy era.
Heya Folks...
The precinct's not completely dead yet. Whilst Jack's gone (and we all miss the old bugger), and there's been some unecessary policticking going on, the communtity's still as strong as ever.
To be sure, there's been some friction down the creek. And to be sure, now that Gwen's passed on as well, and with Joe's ill health (he'd deny that of course) as far as i know there's no plan for a supermarket on that site. (think of the traffic?!>!>)
There'll be a demand for slipway services there for a while yet, and when Jack's old slip is rebuilt, it'll remove the monopoly that the two club slips, and Allnut have. Time will tell what effect the recent 'expressions of interest' submissions have.
I know a dozen or so folks who have boats down there atm, and unless council 'yuppifies' the mooring lease arrangements in the near future, us 'creek rats' still have a place in the mordi community.
UM
Any updates on this?
I haven't been down that way for a while?
Meli
Council currently reviewing EOI for the two or three leases. It appears outwardly that there has been some friction (predictably) in this process. Needless to say that between the Council's stated 'vision' for the precinct, and whatever results are from the EOI currently under consideration, Mordi Creek will retain a fair whack of it's character.Quote:
Originally Posted by astrid
UM
Just staying near there at the moment. This was on the boat shed