On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 03:02:55 GMT, "NE Sailboat"
wrote:

If you are in the NH seacoast region .. could you tell me who, where, I can
purchase mooring equipment.

I need a 6,000 block of granite according to the port auth. What I've seen
is a big old piece of rough cut granite with a hole through the middle and a
big old piece of metal through the hole which has a ring/loop on the top.
The mooring chain gets attached to the ring/loop.

Problem seems to be that the port auth sends mooring permit holders to a
couple of mooring setters. That isn't so bad but how can someone know how
much the granite is costing without talking to the supplier.

So, you go out and talk to the farmer every time you want to buy a
pint of milk, just to see if the price you're asked to pay at the shop
is fair, by your (probably not knowing the difference) standards?

I'd have thought that the Authority in queston giving you the contact
details for a couple of suppliers forthe finished product have
actually done you a favour.....

The free-market forces of competition will now come into it.

You could've been left high and dry not knowing where to go, what to
do.....

How much is a pint of milk at the farm gate, asks he, knowing full
well that it doesn't pass through the farm gates as "pints" and
knowing, too, that even lumps of granite will also be subject to
value-adding along the way....?

Regards,

Bruce Nichol