£68 a night in Cowes !!!

[Bav34]

Wonder if this is plus VAT? /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Price for a 10.3 metre boat

The Skandia Cowes website here is pretty good. Impressed by the weather forecasting.

 

[Evadne]

I wonder how much they'd pay me not to visit Cowes during Cowes week ...

 

[ShipsWoofy]

will you pay it?

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

i'm so glad i'm not based in the solent....

They should change their name to 'Dick Turpin Enterprises'....

 

[Evadne]

I expect there will still be spaces at the Folly for 10% the cost, but then there is the awful drag of having get oneself ferried ashore by one's crew, and the tedious trip down the river in the morning, while one's man makes breakfast, it's all a bit too ghastly to contemplate, I'm afraid ...

 

[raquet]

Yes but it says you get a free house pub. I'm not sure what a house pub is but I like the sound of it.

 

[Bav34]

Thinking about it that will prob. be £73 as they'll round it up to 11 metres!

Just as well one can keep ones boat on The Squadron pontoons, ain't it? /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

 

[Sgeir]

Seems pretty good value for what must be one of the UK's prime cruising areas.

 

[ebbtide]

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There's the awful drag of having get oneself ferried ashore by one's crew, and the tedious trip down the river in the morning, while one's man makes breakfast, it's all a bit too ghastly to contemplate, I'm afraid ...

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. . . whereas in practice you'll be leaning against the quay up at Newport pleading engine probs and enjoying a freebie to scrub orf!

(Sorry Dave, have read the Elizabethan Handbook.)

 

[Stemar]

'kinell!!!!!!!!

That's not much less than I pay for a year /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Admittedly, it's a couple of hours from Cowes and I can't walk ashore, but [smug git mode]I'll put money on my bar being a pound a pint cheaper[/smug git mode]