Budget sailing on the Clyde

Lay your own mooring and join an association. About £1500ish to have mooring laid DRB or Neil Cunningham would do the business plus £50 per year contribution to crown estate (the queen). Annual maintenance/service under £200 cost over 5 year period £500 per year. DRB for winter storage which includes lift out and launch about £800.
Gare loch is good next to Faslane navel base sheltered with 24 hour police patrol and fairly close to main line train station.
 
JumbleDuck said:
I have a mooring at Port Bannatyne. It costs me £40 per annum to the Crown Estate, through the moorings association and £120 to Neil Cunningham for maintenance. It needs a new riser every five years or so, which is another £200.

No insurance company will touch Kames Bay in the winter. Hitherto I have gone into the yard at £82.50 per metre (including craning and pressure wash) plus £75 cradle hire but this year I am planning to stay afloat at £75 per metre - though I'll be having a fortnight ashore at some point which will cost more.

All in all my mooring and storage costs come to about £1,000 per annum. There are several moorings for sale at Kames Bay. The going rate for one in good condition is starts at about £350.
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You would love my costs, Albufeira and La Linea, cheapest around, €4200 pa.
Stu
 
skipper_stu said:
You would love my costs, Albufeira and La Linea, cheapest around, €4200 pa.
Stu
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Yowch.

Of course you can go higher on the Clyde. I think Kip Marina is the most expensive these days - it would cost me about £3k per annum to keep the boat there, so not far from what you're paying and probably more per foot.

And to think that - with good reasons - I gave up a berth at Kirkcudbright Marina, which cost me £70 per metre per annum ...
 
Sneaky Pete said:
Lay your own mooring and join an association. About £1500ish to have mooring laid DRB or Neil Cunningham would do the business plus £50 per year contribution to crown estate (the queen). Annual maintenance/service under £200 cost over 5 year period £500 per year. DRB for winter storage which includes lift out and launch about £800.
Gare loch is good next to Faslane navel base sheltered with 24 hour police patrol and fairly close to main line train station.
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....or you can go to Tighnabruaich. Maramarine have very sheltered moorings at £400 per six-month which includes secure dinghy and outboard storage ashore. Not sure how much winter storage ashore there is but it's not silly money.

...not really close to the racing action though. Except at Scottish Series:rolleyes:

Regards
Donald

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Aja said:
....or you can go to Tighnabruaich. Maramarine have very sheltered moorings at £400 per six-month which includes secure dinghy and outboard storage ashore. Not sure how much winter storage ashore there is but it's not silly money.

Regards
Donald

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2 hours 40 from Edinburgh. Gourock or Helensburgh are only and hour and a half. And Both possible on public transport!
 
Toward Mooring and Towage do me a good deal in the Holy Loch, with good knowledge of local rates.
Good reliable service for the last 4years. ( no relation!)
 
JumbleDuck said:
Yowch.

And to think that - with good reasons - I gave up a berth at Kirkcudbright Marina, which cost me £70 per metre per annum ...
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Kirkcudbright is still cheap but now more like £106/ M with VAT included. If you want to come out for the winter then unless you are small enough to trailer out then factor in a trip away and probably something like the same costs again for the winter. And to be fair it's not quite the same sailing as the Clyde or West coast!
 
Solwaycruiser said:
Kirkcudbright is still cheap but now more like £106/ M with VAT included. If you want to come out for the winter then unless you are small enough to trailer out then factor in a trip away and probably something like the same costs again for the winter. And to be fair it's not quite the same sailing as the Clyde or West coast!
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My boat there had a fin keel which mean that I was restricted to either (a) a couple of hours at high water or (b) down with the first half of the ebb, back with the second half of the flood. A bit too limiting, which is why I now sail from the Clyde. I have a Drascombe on Loch Ken for spur-of-the-moment stuff.
 
You could always winter back on the Forth. A few yachts from our club spend the summer on the west coast and travel back via the Forth & Clyde (typically bilge keelers), or Caledonian canal for the winter. You'll typically get club membership for around £200 with £50 per lift. That way you'd have the advantage of having your boat closer for winter maintenance (assuming you live in the east).
 
yodave said:
You could always winter back on the Forth. A few yachts from our club spend the summer on the west coast and travel back via the Forth & Clyde (typically bilge keelers), or Caledonian canal for the winter. You'll typically get club membership for around £200 with £50 per lift. That way you'd have the advantage of having your boat closer for winter maintenance (assuming you live in the east).
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Good thought. What club are you in?
 
I did that for a few years - Port Edgar used to do a 3 month for the price of 2 deal if the boat signed up for the PEYC autumn and winter series, then 3 months ashore. I always intended to go round the top but late September's lows meant the Caledonian Canal. I'd tried the F&C ditch and despite the official 6' depth claim, I reckon anything over 5' would hit bottom. Leaving on the 31st March to avoid Eilean's clutches was interesting. The last time I did it 6 years ago, it started with a gentle spinnaker run to Fife Ness in warm sunshine sipping Kir and degenerated into a night-time gale with blizzard at Clachnaharry.
I now winter on a pontoon then 3 months in a shed in the west and get much more done in the dry than I ever managed on the hard at Port Edgar . I do miss the Sunday racing till Xmas though.
 
A1Sailor said:
I think the cost at DRB is £580+VAT for the summer, then the same for winter storage. These costs include launch and recovery.
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DRB isn't that cheap anymore. Winter costs this year for myself are £750 for a 27fter when you include vat and cradle hire compared to £800 on a pontoon in Clyde marina for the winter. Certainly making me reassess what I'll do next year summer and winter.
 
When I was at Glasgow University we used to regularly race GP14s right up until Xmas, at Bardowie Loch. CCC more or less stopped using it at the beginning of October. On one occasion I remember driving the committee tub round in the middle of the loch to break the ice to avoid having to cancel a match! It was team racing vs the other Scottish universities. Launching off the beach through some surf at St Andrews is another memory - I think it was St Andrews but might have been Tayport.

One year, around 1980, the clubhouse at Bardowie caught fire so we got some nice new sails.:encouragement: The kitchen was "lost", so I drove to City Bakeries in Milngavie in my wetsuit for hot pies! Completely and utterly mad - we should have been locked up!!!!!
 
dimdav said:
DRB isn't that cheap anymore. Winter costs this year for myself are £750 for a 27fter when you include vat and cradle hire compared to £800 on a pontoon in Clyde marina for the winter. Certainly making me reassess what I'll do next year summer and winter.
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Ah yes - there are advantages in having more than one keel!
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A1Sailor said:
.........Launching off the beach through some surf at St Andrews is another memory - I think it was St Andrews but might have been Tayport.
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That would have been St Andrews (Tayport does tide but not surf).

Surf is not fun, and launching and coming ashore could often be tricky at St Andrews.
But one time when I was there we didn’t notice the tide had gone out such that suddenly the wing mark was in breakers. All 6 boats got caught whilst still racing and most rolled over very forcefully. If I recall broke at least 2 masts and 3 centreboards.
Rescue RIB tried to go in to aid first casualty and nearly became a bigger one - rammed on full power to turn into wave and went straight up, then straight down on transom with bang that broke the windscreen. Rescue boat had to leave and return via the harbour. Fortunately students are tough and no serious injuries or worse. But not funny - not cheap.
Avoiding breaking surf is another advantage of the Clyde.
 
This has just come up on the Sailing and Cruising Scotland:Buy/Sell trade on Facebook

10ton mooring at Helensburgh Sailing Club £550

Are you looking to reduce the costs of your sailing? Mooring at Helensburgh Sailing Club (HSC) for sale. Only 45 mins away from Glasgow City Centre so you can be sailing every evening after work. Suitable for up to 10 ton boat. Professionally serviced annually by DRB marine. Double mushroom on a 28mm riser chain. Buyer needs to become member of HSC (very friendly club with annual beer and gin festival!) unless you plan to move the mooring away. There is the usual annual ground rent which is £65 payable via the club.
 
Jcorstorphine said:
This has just come up on the Sailing and Cruising Scotland:Buy/Sell trade on Facebook

10ton mooring at Helensburgh Sailing Club £550

Are you looking to reduce the costs of your sailing? Mooring at Helensburgh Sailing Club (HSC) for sale. Only 45 mins away from Glasgow City Centre so you can be sailing every evening after work. Suitable for up to 10 ton boat. Professionally serviced annually by DRB marine. Double mushroom on a 28mm riser chain. Buyer needs to become member of HSC (very friendly club with annual beer and gin festival!) unless you plan to move the mooring away. There is the usual annual ground rent which is £65 payable via the club.
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Very interesting......!!
 
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