Sounds a bit like down here Bunyip..Over 20 million spent on an extra ramp here at Clump point but mostly spent on commercial facilities but most of the smaller commercial operators just use the rec pontoon and carpark because its more convenient and cheaper for them and the then encourage customers to illegally park right by the ramp in the trailer rigging areas..then the larger operators often moor up to the set down and pickup commercial pontoon because they dont want to pay for the pen moorings provided which are then often empty..I even had one commercial woman tell me to wind my boat on faster because she was in a hurry to launch...

Anyway your buddy Dave is getting a bit greedy ..the Gofundme started at 5K then 50K then 100K and they said when it reached 100k they would stop it but now they decided to keep upping it and keeping the funds rolling in so up to 110K and now they upped it to 120K...plus his 80K insurance....not bad to replace a [censored]little Goodwin 9m longboat or was it just the 7m one that washed away..?..!

So the FB weather pages are about to explode I reckon.....Cat 5 to hit hit Townsville next week or cat 1 to hit Sydney...is it one or the other or maybe both...