Berthing charges around the UK (and further?)

[Searush]

Not a marina, but very sheltered - & spaces available (max 11m) - Caernarfon, around £80/m for a drying trot mooring. Quay moorings are the same price, but there is a waiting list & very little turnover.

Victoria Dock is the marina & that is around £3.5kpa for a 10m boat.

 

[cimota]

I am amused by the idea that someone moves their berth from all weather Carrickfergus marina to Portpatrick because of access issues...

That's their reason. Otherwise why move to somewhere where you need to travel over a day ahead via ferry. Seems daft.

 

[Sailfree]

Top notch Solent style will cost, say, £3000 pa for a 10m boat

£11,000 for 43' at Hamble Point.

 

[Flapjack]

It would be £7862.40 for our 34' at Hamble Point according to the PBO guide, that made me blanch

 

[Cymrogwyllt]

Not a marina, but very sheltered - & spaces available (max 11m) - Caernarfon, around £80/m for a drying trot mooring. Quay moorings are the same price, but there is a waiting list & very little turnover.

Victoria Dock is the marina & that is around £3.5kpa for a 10m boat.

There's talk of another 50 odd places available at Victoria Dock. Not got planning yet but they have gone out to tender a few months ago. They'll get it. It's the council applying to itself for permission.

Quay at Caernarfon has a fair number of commercial craft there.Queen of the Sea spends the winter beached on the other side of the river for one. You're safer from the local (or not so local) lowlife off the quay.

Looking at the prices in this thread makes me glad I had boats you could (mostly. That Vyneck was very heavy with an inch of gel on the bow. Turned out it was specially built for an expedition)) pick up, put on top of the car and keep in the yard.

 

[PeterGibbs]

Putting costs and everything into the big spreadsheet in my head for the eventual boat purchase and I'm kinda curious of costs.

How much is it to berth (annually) where you are?

Now, for somewhere that it tidally locked, has poor-to-bad weather, and launches you out into the rough bit of the Irish sea, I'm curious about the value proposition here.

On mooring costs, there's a bit of a trail many of us pursue. First you recoil in horror at the cost of a marina and seek out a swing mooring. This works for a couple of seasons but you do regret trying to row/motor out to the boat when there's a chop about. And then you have to come ashore for water. And loading the holiday gear and crew. Then someone bashes your boat and leaves a gash and no address. And you begin to wonder.

Thereafter you're in a marina, and not likely to go back to a mooring. There are far fewer irritations of course. Join the masses of us who suck it up: and make savings somewhere else - probabaly run the mainsail for 10 or more seasons etc etc Ouch!

Once over this mooring issue, you'll look forward and enjoy your sailing. Of course you will....

PWG

 

[Ubergeekian]

On mooring costs, there's a bit of a trail many of us pursue. First you recoil in horror at the cost of a marina and seek out a swing mooring. This works for a couple of seasons but you do regret trying to row/motor out to the boat when there's a chop about. And then you have to come ashore for water. And loading the holiday gear and crew. Then someone bashes your boat and leaves a gash and no address. And you begin to wonder.

My mooring is about 100yds from the shore, and also about 100yds from Port Bannatyne marina. That works well as a combination - the dinghy trip is short and fun and if I need to load stuff I can go into the marina for six quid. Since the mooring costs me about £100 per annum (£40 to Liz through the Moorings Association, £60 for maintenance) the occasional six quid isn't too painful.