Are you allowed to sleep in your boatyard?

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Harmony is ashore in Littlehampton - in the harbour authority boat yard - she is one of six boats in there

I spent two days last week on the boat - and one night aboard

there is a loo there for the boat owners to use

this week I spent three nights aboard

last night there was a knock on the hull and I was told that this is a working yard and that I am not allowed to sleep aboard. The bloke said I could sleep one more night

Bumma.

This was the first time I have been told that sleeping is not permitted

I was told that rooms at the Arun View are only £25 a night

I shall have to park the car outside the gates and sleep in the micra until the job is done

wishing I still had the old Escort estate

D
 
I think you'll find that most boatyards have a rule against it and most don't enforce it very actively. Certainly, the MDL rules say no, but the MDL management seldom complain.
 
That sounds very annoying Dylan.
I had a friend who spent a whole winter living aboard on the hard, on the East coast.

I wonder how they would draw the line between pulling an all nighter and staying aboard...
 
maby said:
I think you'll find that most boatyards have a rule against it and most don't enforce it very actively. Certainly, the MDL rules say no, but the MDL management seldom complain.
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strangely enough, just the day before, I had signed a piece of paper saying that would not use their litter bins, that the yacht had to insured and that everything I did was at my own risk. It did not say anything about not sleeping on boats so I thought it would probably be okay.

I have heard of yards where you are allowed to doss down overnight provided you do not ask - that way they could pretend that they did not know.

I like sleeping aboard when ashore - I like feeling the wind tugging at the rigging yet unable to move the boat at all

ho hum

D
 
maby said:
Certainly, the MDL rules say no, but the MDL management seldom complain.
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Agree the management don't ..... but at Hythe I was turfed off the boat by the RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION .... and it was a privately owned berth alongside a marina house (by permission of the owner, of course!).

Dylan: certainly not a problem at the Chi Hbr marina discussed in a thread a few weeks back.
 
Not sure what our yard's official rules are, but they have a number of liveaboards on the pontoons who don't particularly hide the fact and the management are well aware (and don't pretend not to know). People don't generally live in the yard, though I believe there's one exception making very slow progress in restoring an old wooden boat that hasn't seen the water in years. I've also known people sleep aboard the night before an early morning lift-in.

Sleeping in a Micra does not sound like fun at all!

Pete
 
prv said:
Not sure what our yard's official rules are, but they have a number of liveaboards on the pontoons who don't particularly hide the fact and the management are well aware (and don't pretend not to know). People don't generally live in the yard, though I believe there's one exception making very slow progress in restoring an old wooden boat that hasn't seen the water in years. I've also known people sleep aboard the night before an early morning lift-in.

Sleeping in a Micra does not sound like fun at all!

Pete
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it will be pretty horrible

but what is art without some suffering

D
 
Grow some stubble and don't wash your hair. Wear grubby clothes and drink a lot. Swear at them when they come tapping on the hull. Then call them "mate" and tell them you want to kiss them.

They'll leave you alone.



(Oh, you've tried it already)
 
I can recommend a Fiat Marea Weekend estate.

With the rear seats folded it offers a 6 foot long double berth aft, has a galvanised bodyshell suited to the marine environment, and people practically give them away because they're Italian.
 
I'm generally a fairly rule abiding sort of chap but I must admit my inclination if somebody told me I couldn't sleep on board my boat when I wanted to whether afloat or ashore would be to tell them where to get off in fairly blunt terms
 
Simondjuk said:
I can recommend a Fiat Marea Weekend estate.

With the rear seats folded it offers a 6 foot long double berth aft, has a galvanised bodyshell suited to the marine environment, and people practically give them away because they're Italian.
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the escort was great - when I was on the alde I would leave home at ten at night, drive to the yard, doss down in the car and then get up at first light and row out to the slug

saw some cracking sunrises

the annoying thing will be the knowledge that just a few yards away is a perfectly comfortable boat

D
 
Spent a week living in my Triumph Spitfire once. Keep an old army tent in the boot now, you never know when it might come in handy:

"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,' Bilbo used to say. 'You step onto the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to."

My marina doesn't allow staying overnight in the yard and it certainly says so in the small print.
Decided to break the rules last year but kept a very low profile!
 
Make friends with the yard. A bottle of whisky or a £20 for a real or imagined "favour" can open the doors to a lot of cooperation. I've got a yard down on the hamble that have never told me off for kipping onboard overnight whilst working on her. First day I was there I offered one of the old boys my endless thanks and £20 for a £1 hose for under the sink and I've got on supremely well ever since.
First impressions last with these old hands.
 
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