H STANDING, of Above Town, Dartmouth, writes: Why was the Dart Harbour AGM held at the school and consequently very poorly attended? There was nothing on in the Flavel on the evening of Monday, December 8, and we must therefore assume Dart Harbour wanted to keep people away – and in this they ­succeeded. It was the usual diet of complacency and back-slapping about a situation that many ­regular users of the river know to be the opposite to what ­actually takes place on the river. It's an unhappy river with a poor atmosphere and certainly not as it used to be. The debacle of a few cruise ships through the summer, plus the fact that a riser attached to one of the main stream buoys apparently failed recently, is hardly likely to inspire confidence. We should think ourselves fortunate that this riser was attached to the fuel barge and not to a visiting cruise liner. We are told that a gate is to be installed on the (Ship-in-Dock) pontoon DB. Why? Is it perhaps a safety measure? The first three pontoons from the steps are unstable and dangerous in a gale of wind. Perhaps to stop the very occasional children crabbing in the summer, or to inconvenience the 150 berth/ stakeholders on DB? Was ­anyone asked or consulted? This all seems very amateurish and hardly in keeping with what Dartmouth Harbour would like to be.