lustyd
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Hi all, what's the best method of staying overnight on a mooring at Beaulieu these days? In the past it was easiest to just go in and pick up a buoy and wait for a person in a boat to ask for money, is that still the case?
Beaulieu River visitor moorings
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pyrojames
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That's always worked for me, or dropping the hook.
HissyFit
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Just ripped this from their website:
This suggests that there is no 'person in a boat'. Telephone number: 01590 616200
This suggests that there is no 'person in a boat'. Telephone number: 01590 616200
lustyd
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The website has always said something quite different to the lived experience, hence asking here 
When I used to visit it would also talk about special visitors moorings which never seemed to exist so you ended up just taking one of the free ones. I imagine the person in the boat must be there as it also doubled as the taxi for resident boats.
When I used to visit it would also talk about special visitors moorings which never seemed to exist so you ended up just taking one of the free ones. I imagine the person in the boat must be there as it also doubled as the taxi for resident boats.
HissyFit
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The website has always said something quite different to the lived experience, hence asking here
Ahhh, I see. If they let info like that out on the website it might encourage more boats to visit, and that would invite chaos. Have a pleasant visit.
DJE
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I've used them three or four times this year. They're just the regular buoys which they haven't sold so they label them as visitor's buoys. The first two buoys you come to going up river are for visitors but have no pick buoys just a big ring on the top. After the first bend and before Gins Farm there are six or eight buoys marked with a "V" label and/or a "V" on the pick-up buoy. They are sprinkled in amongst the general moorings. There might be more further up but I've never been and looked. Very early this season none of them were marked as I don't think they had finished allocating the moorings so we just picked up and empty one with no problems.
I've always just picked one up and paid the harbour master when he comes round in the morning.
I've always just picked one up and paid the harbour master when he comes round in the morning.
lustyd
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Thanks DJE very useful to know they actually mark them these days! Next the challenge of actually picking one up in the new boat
st599
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They've banned anchoring in the river, saw a few boats being moved on a couple of weeks ago.
Poignard
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Last time I anchored there the HM's launch was alongside for the money while I was still laying out chain
matt1
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Just be aware...I think I am right in saying this....that the 8 or so white visitors Buoys on the bend are £10 per night. The others (with yellow pick up and a "V") are £2.23 per mtr overnight!
Ian_Rob
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Are you sure? Their price list still quotes £10/night?
st599
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According to the CA Almanac updates: https://www.theca.org.uk/system/files/2020 Al Corrns 2.0_ 20191010.pdf
BEAULIEU RIVER, Berthing*** Lines 4-6: Amend, “Anchoring prohibited ........Buckler’s Hard.” to “Anchoring prohibited anywhere in the river”.
BEAULIEU RIVER, Berthing*** Lines 4-6: Amend, “Anchoring prohibited ........Buckler’s Hard.” to “Anchoring prohibited anywhere in the river”.
Ian_Rob
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Interesting. I am sure I have read something recently asking river users not to anchor in certain areas, implying that there there is anchoring elsewhere in the river……??
Bru
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Just call them up on the VHF when inbound. Very helpful in my (admittedly limited) experience
The conversation was quite amusing though ... "oh hell, i suppose you want a swinging mooring?" ( which i subsequently gathered were in rather short supply) ... "well actually we'd quite like to go on the mid-river pontoon" ... "oh that's fine, help yourself - it's empty"
They were also incredibly helpful when an incident left us on the marina dinghy dock with a wrecked dinghy and no way back to the boat. Even though he'd finished for the day, one of the staff who was still around ran us and the pancacked dinghy back in their dory (and didn't charge us either)
The conversation was quite amusing though ... "oh hell, i suppose you want a swinging mooring?" ( which i subsequently gathered were in rather short supply) ... "well actually we'd quite like to go on the mid-river pontoon" ... "oh that's fine, help yourself - it's empty"
They were also incredibly helpful when an incident left us on the marina dinghy dock with a wrecked dinghy and no way back to the boat. Even though he'd finished for the day, one of the staff who was still around ran us and the pancacked dinghy back in their dory (and didn't charge us either)
matt1
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Visiting rates
For visiting yachts, per vessel, per night, subject to availability.
From 1st April – 31st October 2021
| River Location | Overnight* | Short Stay** |
|---|---|---|
| Marina | £4.00/metre | £2.00/metre |
| River (upstream of Needs Ore)† | £2.25/metre | £1.00/metre |
| Visitor Buoys (up to 40ft)‡ | £10/night (max 7 nights) | £8.00 |
| Anchorage§ | £10/night | £8.00 |
**A short stay is between 12:00 – 15:30. The overnight fee applies after 15:30.
†Swinging moorings have a yellow pick up buoy marked with a yellow V.
‡Visitor buoys (moorings 1 – 8) have a white pick up buoy marked with a green V. Does not include use of the marina facilities.
§ To protect the sensitive habitats of the river, anchoring is only permitted between navigation piles 20 and 22. Does not include use of the marina facilities.
Ian_Rob
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DJE
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That seems to tally with what we have been charged. But there aren't many buoys below Needs Ore Point. Only the two (or three) with no pick-ups and just the rings on top IIRC.
prv
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Last time I anchored there the HM's launch was alongside for the money while I was still laying out chain
When was that?
I often used to anchor in the first reach of the river - few others seemed to, and it was a really useful place. Banning it has been a real ball-ache the last couple of years.
Pete
Poignard
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More than 10 years ago, it must have been.
In one of Eric Hiscock's books he describes leaving one of his Wanderers moored in the Beaulieu River to two anchors for weeks at a time.
FairweatherDave
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What this thread has shown me is the distinction between V buoys and V buoys .
Upstream the swinger buoys are a different colour (yellow) and cost more. But you can use the facilities I think. The downstream ones are less sheltered and there seemed very few at all when we visited earlier in the year. I thought some might have been removed. The men in boats are still real.
.Upstream the swinger buoys are a different colour (yellow) and cost more. But you can use the facilities I think. The downstream ones are less sheltered and there seemed very few at all when we visited earlier in the year. I thought some might have been removed. The men in boats are still real.
