A National Campaign to Encourage Architects to Provide Decent Marina Facilities

[capnsensible]

I've been to a few French marinas where the showers are 'mixed'. I really don't think that they should be encouraging blokes to spend 3 hours wasting water.

 

[benjenbav]

I think there’s an issue for marina operators as to what customers actually want.

As this thread suggests, not everyone wants the same thing.

I had a boat at Berthon for some years and their facilities were smart and hotel-like. Worked for me, but not sure if they’d have worked well as a holding/drying facility for endless deep-sea oilskins, though.

And my recollection was that there was plenty of random grumbling about having to pay for gold-plated taps etc.

So, if you can’t please everyone all of the time, who do you choose to please?

 

[BobnLesley]

Few years ago now but Sutton Harbour at Plymouth had excellent facilities.

Which was the Plymouth marina that had the baths and do they still have them? That was a wonderful discovery when we arrived there 20+ years ago, p1ss wet through and freezing cold after an unpleasant passage from the Helford River.

 

[B27]

Which was the Plymouth marina that had the baths and do they still have them? That was a wonderful discovery when we arrived there 20+ years ago, p1ss wet through and freezing cold after an unpleasant passage from the Helford River.

Reminds me of the Yealm Hotel, but that would be 40 years ago not 20....

 

[Skysail]

I've been to a few French marinas where the showers are 'mixed'. I really don't think that they should be encouraging blokes to spend 3 hours wasting water.

At Cherbourg the toilets had separate entrances for men and women. Then you met one another at the bottom of the steps…