Brighton Berthing

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My son is taking the plunge and buying his first sailing boat a benateau 21. Anyway at 21 foot he wanted to keep it at Brighton for day sailing and getting to know about handling but they have quoted something like £2100 per annum and thats become a real shocker. So does anyone know about Brighton? is this the only option? Can you get a summer only berth or for small yachts like this can you negotiate going on the end of jetty eyc at better rates?

Any help or guidence would be appreciated on a cost effective solution
 
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Anyway at 21 foot he wanted to keep it at Brighton for day sailing and getting to know about handling but they have quoted something like £2100 per annum and thats become a real shocker.

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Good job he didn't get a quote for the Solent - he'd be catatonic!

It is possible to negotiate shorter periods, you pay by the month. The prices are on the Premier web-site. Alternatives nearby are Newhaven and Shoreham but the facilities and security aren't a patch on Brighton.
 
agreed thats a lot of money for a berth. i was at brighton marina for many years. the only other options are eastbourne to the east, also now owned by premier, also around the same price, or shoreham, where you have got lady bee marina, again around the same price, and also there is a waiting list there. you may be lucky and get a mooring buoy at shoreham, try the sussex yacht club, and also try the shoreham port authority.

other than that, i can tell you 99.9% that you won't get any sort of discount, unless you get a job with premier marina! but you do get fuel at cost, free nights and short stays at other premier marinas, and other benefits. also the staff at brighton marina are all really nice.

i guess your only chance of getting a cheaper berth at brighton is if one of the home owners with an attached pontoon is looking to "sub-contract" out there pontoon? i know this happens at port solent quite a lot. although at brighton that would mean being on the locked inner basin, not very handy for quick access to the sea!

good luck, and if your in town, PM me, we'll have a pint!
 
what an idiot....i completely forgot about newhaven! what are the fees like there for berthing? i think that newhaven is coming up in the world, with lots of waterside develoments, etc? i used to go there from brighton and have a nice sunday fry up at the cafe! also the chandlary on site is helpful and friendly.
 
We went there about a year ago looking for somewhere cheaper than Brighton or the Solent. SWMBO was NOT impressed with the view and the prices were edging towards Brighton territory, but things may have changed.
 
Newhaven is less pretty but sailing-wise at least as functional as Brighton. It's about 25% cheaper.

There are plans to develop it but they are proceeding slowly.
 
Ah this one has not got a trailer. I did think that having a trailer would be a liability to keep all summer etc, but is there some way of launching easliy from Brigthon then?

Otherwise I guess you just have to pay your money but charging a 21 foot boat for min of 28 feet does seem a bit steep.

My first sailing boat was 18 feet moored of Whitstable in Kent./ The mooring was an old cooker dug into the mud with a chain riser and annual cost of about £50 a year. Havent times changed, they want it easy these days
 
There's not that much in it, and here in newhaven we've got tidal restrictions on most berths; unless they properly dredge it /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif. 2008 increase a sensible 2.5% to £222 per metre per annum,plus £182 for leccy. The greasy spoon cafe has closed and the new apartments are mostly unsold. In the event of strong onshore winds it is a good refuge port, cos of the large breakwater, if you should find yourself in town , give me a shout for a beer, I need a break from cleaning and painting "free spirit". /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
 
I had a letter from Brighton Marina only yesterday trying to tempt me to take a berth there.

I have only visited the place once, thought it over priced and unhelpful and will only use it again as a break when on passage as I live in Norfolk and sail on the East Coast!

However methinks they have spare berths and may be up to doing a deal!
 
Where is your son based? To get to know a new boat the Medway offers sheltered sailing with the option of the Estuary and beyond as experience and confidence builds. Cheaper mooring, we pay £204 per metre for a marina berth that has access 3 hours either side of HW potentially more if the boat has a lifting keel. Minimum length is 7 metres.

On visiting Brighton last year we noticed that if the seas are rough you go from the tranquility of the marina to being at sea very quickly not the slower transition of conditions you get from leaving a river and heading out to sea.
 
Believe it or not £2k for 21ft in a marina is about the going rate. Cheaper alternatives include a swinging mooring in somewhere like Chichester (better sheltered sailing) or he could try joining a club to see if it could be kept on a trailer and launched as required. Obviously it is more of a pain to launch & recover but it would be cheaper. if a marina is a must Northney keep some boats on trailers on the hard and have a launching service which I recall was about £1k per season - not cheap but it's the south coast after all
 
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what an idiot....i completely forgot about newhaven! what are the fees like there for berthing? i think that newhaven is coming up in the world, with lots of waterside develoments, etc? i used to go there from brighton and have a nice sunday fry up at the cafe! also the chandlary on site is helpful and friendly.

[/ QUOTE ]We had a pretty rough night at Newhaven last Spring. The ferries were noisy and created a lot of wash and the dredger seemed to go all night. The seagull scarer went off every half hour with a seagull distress call and the berth that we were shown to didn't have enough depth when the tide lowered (we had a 1.8m fin keel then). Fortunately we realised the depth issue and moved... to watch the berth space completely dry out later on that evening. The dreadful night's sleep we had, with all the noise and wash, and the longish walk to the facilities, meant that we've struck Newhaven off our list of 'places to visit' unless we have to.

Probably other people have had better experiences but it wasn't a winner for us!
 
Dieppe, about 2.5 hours away. Except on my last return trip on Janury 3rd last year when. accompanied by my 2 children one of whom had spent a spell in the Salle de Suture in Rouen, we took over 5 hours and ended up stemming the tide a few miles off Newhaven waiting for the 'other' Ferry to depart! Or of course Fecamp not too far from Dieppe.
 
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Ah this one has not got a trailer. I did think that having a trailer would be a liability to keep all summer etc, but is there some way of launching easliy from Brigthon then?


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No real slip launching possibilities in Brighton for a 21 footer. However Shoreham can offer several options around the western (tidal) arm.
 
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