Best priced marinas for a week between salcombe and the Solent?

[steve yates]

I'm expecting to come round lands end on Monday. But need to leave the boat in port from wed night/thurs morn for 3 days to a week. I'm guessing I will be along the Dorset coast somewhere by then.
Any reccomendatioms for places to leave her that won't cost an arm and a leg?

( eg, if I had reached Brighton, it would cost the same there for a week as it cost in Pembroke for a month! )

I know the south is supposed to be expensive, but I'm guessing it can't all be top dollar?

Thanks.

 

[johnalison]

I don't know about current prices, but we found Weymouth to be reasonable last time we went there, and it is convenient for the station.

 

[Lucky Duck]

A river mooring on the Dart might be your best bet.

My recollection is the marinas cost pretty much the same as those on Lake Solent although Weymouth & Portland marina have cheaper winter rates. Others might have similar offers.

 

[prv]

Half of the Dorset coast is FLB, so if you definitely mean Dorset then we're really looking at Portland to Christchurch.

I don't know any prices off the top of my head, but:

Portland has a big new marina, but might not be correspondingly expensive since it's a bit out of the way.
Weymouth has a Dean and Reddyhoff marina upriver in town, thoroughly sheltered, don't know prices.
Next stop Poole - Town Quay marina is not cheap, don't know about Cobbs Quay upriver. There are some yards in the harbour with swinging moorings and launch service - would that be an option?
Christchurch is too shallow for me - what boat are you sailing now?

Pete

 

[jonjo7]

Don't overlook travel costs in your assessment i.e. let an expensive taxi ride wipe out a headline saving.

I suggest getting cross Lyme Bay if the weather is good so in effect this means Weymouth or Portland. At this time of year I reckon the inner marina at Weymouth for shelter and I assume the railway station is walkable. Check before hand that bridge opening times will not impead your onwards voyage.

 

[DuncanHall]

Why not just use Waymouth harbor rather than the marina. I stayed there for a few weeks in early spring and it was relatively cheap. As others have said its a short walk to the station. When I stayed they provided a pontoon with water and electricity. Cost is £2pm per day.

 

[prv]

Why not just use Waymouth harbor rather than the marina.

I was picturing the six-boat rafts out from the wall each side, and thinking Steve probably wouldn't want to leave his boat unattended in the twice-daily mooring melee. But fair point that's the situation in summer, and maybe this time of year he could arrange a quiet spot.

Pete

 

[Lucky Duck]

Same as the marina then

 

[dave_gibsea]

Torquay - go on the harbourr masters pontoon - turn hard to starboard as you come in, much cheaper than the marina but still has walk-ashore and showers.

As previously mentioned Weymouth is good value as is the new Portland Marina which saves several miles if on passage - recommend the Cove House Inn on Chesil beach if you are in Portland.

Solent - Lymington Town quay or Dan Bran pontoon cheaper than the marinas. Yarmouth is expensive (but the town is nice) . If you at Cowes go up the Medina to the Folly inn for a pontoon mooring, cheaper than the marinas but you have to use your tender or pay for the water taxi.

 

[ashtead]

Always plenty of space at Portland and have found the D&R staff there most welcoming so would mail them . Isolated compared to Weymouth but your choice might be best considered by what you are doing while leaving boat there i.e. Just locking up and leaving for the week or staying on board and spending days out and about or doing repairs. I have found the bridge into the D& R marina at Weymouth can become tedious but as said safer than the harbour wall if you are away. I imagine if you are departing and leaving boat locked up the safety of a marina might be preferable and offer greater convenience for resupplying and fuelling if required . If you make way into Solent then in addition to those mentioned if tides are right and you don't draw much Island Harbour is peaceful but of course you might need to escape the Island which substantially adds to travel costs.

 

[blush2]

Torquay - go on the harbourr masters pontoon - turn hard to starboard as you come in, much cheaper than the marina but still has walk-ashore and showers.

As previously mentioned Weymouth is good value as is the new Portland Marina which saves several miles if on passage - recommend the Cove House Inn on Chesil beach if you are in Portland.

Solent - Lymington Town quay or Dan Bran pontoon cheaper than the marinas. Yarmouth is expensive (but the town is nice) . If you at Cowes go up the Medina to the Folly inn for a pontoon mooring, cheaper than the marinas but you have to use your tender or pay for the water taxi.

Check Lymington first, we were there a couple of weekends ago and they are dredging the moorings near the Town Quay, all the boats from them were on the Quay and Dan Bran. Think we got the only space.

 

[Lucky Duck]

Found the same issue around this time last year, fortunately while Yarmouth was quite busy we were the only visiting boat at Lymington town quay.

 

[steve yates]

really useful, keep em coming Transport onwards I'll be taking a one way hire from enterprise probably, they will come and collect me if within half an hour of the rental office.

 

[jac]

Steve if you make it as far as the Hamble, you're welcome to use my midstream pontoon mooring for a week or two. You'll need to use the water taxi to get ashore but not too far to go to collect a hire car from Soton Airport.

 

[Boathook]

I don't know about current prices, but we found Weymouth to be reasonable last time we went there, and it is convenient for the station.

and the train goes to Waterloo plus elsewhere if you change ...........

 

[doug748]

really useful, keep em coming Transport onwards I'll be taking a one way hire from enterprise probably, they will come and collect me if within half an hour of the rental office.

Brixham YC have pontoons for £15 a night but you will need a dinghy:

http://www.brixhamyachtclub.com/on-the-water/information-for-visiting-yachts-and-dinghies/pontoons/

 

[ashtead]

You might find that by the time you arrive at the Solent many of the Folly boats on in river pontoons have been vacated for winter so a mid river pontoon might be very cheap if you can establish contact with the harbour master at the Folly

 

[C08]

Brixham YC have a small visitor pontoon in the harbour at brixham-cheaper than the council pontoon or the marina. I would think empty at this time of the year.

 

[DipperToo]

http://www.camsecure.co.uk/Camsecure3/Brixham_Harbour.html
Gets a bit bouncy if any North in the wind.....

 

[JumbleDuck]

I'm expecting to come round lands end on Monday.

You're just determined to make the rest of us look bad, aren't you? Beastly rotter.

Seriously, though, many congratulations on another remarkable trip, and all the very best for the rest of it. I hope to head south myself sometime, to the land of designer sunglasses, espadrilles, obscenely expensive marinas and sun (I've looked it up in a dictionary) so I expect I'll be asking your advice in due course.