Affordable Moorings, Norfolk, Suffolk, perhaps Essex?

I agree that Pin Mill can be muddy, but there is now a pontoon, which allows fairly clean access by dinghy for more than just HW, also the hard does go down a long way, so you can launch/retrieve a dinghy at most states of tide, but it can be messy.
 
As Leigh says. We can launch or land 1.5 hrs either side of neaps or 2 if springs. The long hard means some sort of trolley wheels are needed but mud isn't really an issue.
 
Normalfornorfolk said:
Thanks to all for the helpful replies.

The Deben suffers from a highly restrictive entrance, as does the Alde. The moorings there are doubtless just what I want, but if you can only come and go an hour or so either side of high water what's the point?
I'll look again at Pin Mill but access to the boat is via a mudbath and only at restricted states of tide , isn't it?
Tollesbury. Well, where to start? Too far is probably enough!
Amazing how limited the choice of deepwater moorings is!
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Humm I understand that its not the limited choice of a deep water mooring that's your problem, its the limited sailing area. Indeed Ramsholt has water plus moorings (Felixstowe Ferry Boat Yard ? ) but you might find that the Barr restricts you in some eyes.
Suggest that some of the 'dreadful tales' about that Barr are in part due to NOT doing a recce first and relying upon buoys, charts and advice not personal knowledge, eh ?
 
I kept a small gaff cutter at Walton for twelve years and then I kept a 37ft gaff cutter drawing 5ft on the Deben for three decades. In the end I got fed up with the bar

The problem is not that you hit it (I never have done) but that your weekends are governed absolutely by the tide.

RHYC do have deep water moorings, but they are more or less opposite Levington. There is a (don't quote me!) three year-ish wait for the Club marina (it depends a bit on your draft, not on how well you know the Commodore!)

The real experts on the Orwell own their own moorings, pay ground rent to ABP and get Tam Grundy to maintain them. An alternative to keeping your tender at Pin Mill is to keep it at the RHYC (clean slipway!) but in that case you need a RIB

Yes the waiting list at Ramsholt is not too bad and of course always be nice to George Collins. Waldringfield have a 35ft maximum length and a "local priority" policy so that's out. Methersgate Reach is possible (keep the dinghy at Eversons or on the DYC pontoon) but its shoaling badly. Walton is good but its a looong drive...
 
Things must have changed at Ramsholt then, cos when I departed for the West Country in 2014, George intimated there was no meaningful waiting list as people so rarely gave up moorings. Part of that is what I called the SYH effect, namely it is so cheap to keep a mooring at Ramsholt that lots of people ( including a recently banned senior member) keep their moorings despite their boats being permanently based in marinas on the Orwell.
It does of course mean that there is a ready supply of moorings for visitors.
Wakdringfield has the same "problem" to a lesser extent.
When I put my name down on the HA waiting list for a deep water mooring in the Salcombe/Kingsbridge harbour the list was 14 years long! The Dart is about 10 years for a 35+ footer.
I now have a Hawk 20 on a halftide mooring 5 mins from the house.
 
That's the exact situation and frustrating though it is for some who are looking for a permanent berth it gives visitors like us a guaranteed free visitors buoy on the river. I don't think I've ever seen less than a third of the buoys free and it's kind of the Orwell crowd to maintain the moorings for us visitors, the Deben is a beautiful river to sail in.
 
Humm re the Ramsholt Moorings; I have noticed that the Ferry Boatyard mentions moorings being available at Ramsholt, in their online adverts, are they offering them or stating that they can lay them ?

Bit puzzled !
 
Outside your area but Fambridge offers swinging moorings at £139 per metre. They also have a couple of other deals, but if you are interested it's probably best to have a look at the web site.
 
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