200 Quid mooring fee and pay for pump out

D3B

D3B

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Just moved the boat to Brundall Bay from Ipswich.

months mooring fee = 200 quid.

little red light tells me the holding tank is full.

Pump out please

yes sir, thats 12 quid a go!!!

Why do some marinas have so many add-ons you feel you are being ripped off.

or have i missed that all marinas charge for pump out?

perhaps it encourages people to empty tanks anywhere they like!

Doug
 
I agree!

What stingebags! This bloody car of mine is no better mind - umpteen thousand quid and THEN they charge for petrol! Gits! And last time i went to Tesco, i really had a good go at them, i must have spent literally thousands of pounds over the years and so i only needed a sandwich for lunch - surely wouldn't charge me and make me have no lunch? - but yes, £2.75 the toerags, so much for "every little helps", pah.

I am entirely with dougie on this - having spent a bit of money with a company, they should then be so incredibly grateful for my custom that the next time i buy something they should give me back some or all of the profit from that earlier transaction. This is because i believe in a sort of numptie monopoly-game theory of economics cos see, i'm now less rich than i was having paid you last time, see, so it's somehow fair that you allow for that, in a sort of partially-thought-out fair-sounding blairish grinning way that makes busines people want to smash my face in.
 
Everybody charges for pump outs and I doubt if it makes money for them. Average on the Thames is £5 at the locks for DIY no chemical, to about £12 at some boatyards where they do it and supply chemical. However 3 months mooring costs me £1500!
 
Name your boat after one of the large Water Authorities and you could then pump out as much sh*t as you like into the rivers and sea and no one will bat an eyelid. After all..........thats all they do until they get caught. OK so I'm a cynical s*d but I have seen a fair few torpedoes floating down the Carrick Roads. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Cheers

JH
 
Re: I agree!

Thanks tcm

i run a business so i do understand /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

but go to Ely....ok you cant get there i suppose..........there are three free pump outs supplied by the enviropment agency from Denver Sluice to Ely.....so it dont encourage people to pump there s**t into the river. oh sorry i forgot...you can actually do that on the River Great Ouse and there is now some thought that suggest if those bits go in the river it is actually benficial to the enviroment. the bit that harms is the phosphates and other nasty chemicals from the washing up liquid and shower gels which goes straight into the river.

i wonder how much it does actually cost to connect a pipe to yer boat suck out some stuff. and send it into the sewage system? we arent talking about a floating pontoon in the Thames here, its on the Broads in the middle of a highly populated area with main sewer on tap.

Doug
 
They don't charge on Windermere, presumably the logic is that if it is free the people will not be tempted "dump" in the lake if you pardon the expression
 
Come over here for a pumpout - it's either free or never more than $5. $12 seems like rip-off UK to me, is spite of what I think Matt is saying. Furthermore, $21.40 (11.90) quid//foot/month seems like a rip-off, too. Do you have cable TV, pump-out at your mooring, morning paper delivered, phone connection, pool, sauna, showers and "room service" for that? You should /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Everwhere on the Broads charge for pump out - price varies. Usually find somewhere that does things cheaper than the company who run our marina. We are in Brundall Bay - are you just staying the month? Feel free to drop by and say hello - always got beer in the fridge /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif. We are near the bottom (opposite end to river) on the right as you come into the marina by boat.
 
No pump out available in our Marina (Portishead) - but you are required to use a holding tank!!

The Marina is enclosed with the only water coming in and out of the lock - so it would get really nasty if everyone was dumping straight into the Marina!!

Out in the Bristol Channel to empty the tanks - for free! - soon gets washed away with that 12m tide and 6 knot+ Tidal stream!!

Also seen free pump out available in Cardiff Bay - just outside penarth Marina - I asume this is for boats that do not venture out of the Bay into the Channel
 
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