Danny Jo
Well-Known Member
Up until this year I have not used visitors' moorings much. So after a night on such a mooring at Arinagour on Coll I coughed up like a lamb when two men in a small dinghy drew up alongside and asked for a £15 mooring fee.
A small cloud of suspicion entered my head when I wasn't offered a receipt, but it wasn't until I reviewed the charges for moorings on the trip as a whole that I realised I had been fleeced.
Charges per night, including discount, where negotiated
Glenarm, Northern Ireland (pontoon, inclusive of electricity and shower): £15
Port Ellen, Islay (pontoon, inclusive of electricity): £15
Tinker's hole, Erraid (anchorage): no charge
Arinagour, Coll (visitor's mooring): £15
Tobermory (pontoon, inclusive of electricity): £20
Arisaig, Scottish mainland (mooring by arrangement with Arisaig Marine): £10
Canna (anchorage): no charge
Eriskay (visitor's mooring): no charge
Rodel, Isle of Harris (visitor's mooring): no charge
Stornaway (alongside quay): £10
Loch Gairloch, Scottish mainland (anchorage): no charge
Loch Dunvegan, Isle of Skye (anchorage): no charge
Loch Scavaig, Isle of Sky (anchorage): no charge
There were only a two or three other blemishes on what was otherwise a glorious trip. Tobermory has become a victim of its own popularity, the only butcher has closed, and the barman at the Mishnish lectured me on the impropriety of asking for my excessively froth-laden pint to be topped up. (This was a red rag to the bull, er, another forumite actually - I had the devil of a job keeping the two apart.) And at Port Ellen's Ardview Inn, although they still serve proper beer, when three of us complained of it being off it was suggested that there was no problem with the beer, only with our taste buds. (Another red rag episode, the bull in question being a paid-up member, until earlier in the year at least, of CAMRA.)
A small cloud of suspicion entered my head when I wasn't offered a receipt, but it wasn't until I reviewed the charges for moorings on the trip as a whole that I realised I had been fleeced.
Charges per night, including discount, where negotiated
Glenarm, Northern Ireland (pontoon, inclusive of electricity and shower): £15
Port Ellen, Islay (pontoon, inclusive of electricity): £15
Tinker's hole, Erraid (anchorage): no charge
Arinagour, Coll (visitor's mooring): £15
Tobermory (pontoon, inclusive of electricity): £20
Arisaig, Scottish mainland (mooring by arrangement with Arisaig Marine): £10
Canna (anchorage): no charge
Eriskay (visitor's mooring): no charge
Rodel, Isle of Harris (visitor's mooring): no charge
Stornaway (alongside quay): £10
Loch Gairloch, Scottish mainland (anchorage): no charge
Loch Dunvegan, Isle of Skye (anchorage): no charge
Loch Scavaig, Isle of Sky (anchorage): no charge
There were only a two or three other blemishes on what was otherwise a glorious trip. Tobermory has become a victim of its own popularity, the only butcher has closed, and the barman at the Mishnish lectured me on the impropriety of asking for my excessively froth-laden pint to be topped up. (This was a red rag to the bull, er, another forumite actually - I had the devil of a job keeping the two apart.) And at Port Ellen's Ardview Inn, although they still serve proper beer, when three of us complained of it being off it was suggested that there was no problem with the beer, only with our taste buds. (Another red rag episode, the bull in question being a paid-up member, until earlier in the year at least, of CAMRA.)
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