Cheapest mooring or hardstanding Portsmouth

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Can anyone point me to a cheap mooring or hardstanding, where I can store my 52ft motor yacht. It doesn't need access to the water until I am ready for it.
Can be up a river somewhere. It just needs to be cheap and secure.

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If the boat is mobile at sea, there are some places in Chichester Harbour worth checking -

Thornham Marine is an excellent boatyard near Southbourne, sometime called themselves a marina but just a few rickety pontoons, very good boatyard though, good value with a small chandlery now on site.

Wilsons Yard on the east, Chi side of Hayling Island are very good but unsure if they can manage 52' - I reckon they could.

Hayling Yacht Co is a long standing boatyard with pontoons as well, though they dry on soft mud - worth a call.
 
Never heard of Seajet's Thornham Marine and its rickety pontoons but Thornham Marina is a very well equipped and friendly place to keep a boat. Maybe he is confusing it with Paynes Yard next door which is equally friendly but just a touch less sophisticated.
 
I thought they had sheepishly dropped the ' marina ' - I've only known the place for 40 + years, yes it has been transformed in the last decade + but the last time I saw the pontoons a few years ago they were definitely not most peoples' idea of a marina !

I don't hesitate to say a fantastic boatyard though, and last I heard good value too.

Just not a marina - if it has changed that much in such a short time please let's have info here including depths available. :)
 
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Seajet said:
I thought they had sheepishly dropped the ' marina ' - I've only known the place for 40 + years, yes it has been transformed in the last decade + but the last time I saw the pontoons a few years ago they were definitely not most peoples' idea of a marina !

I don't hesitate to say a fantastic boatyard though, and last I heard good value too.

Just not a marina - if it has changed that much in such a short time please let's have info here including depths available. :)
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Im based next door at Paynes, Andy. Nowt wrong with the pontoons, well up to standard with water and power etc. The big problem is there's no water. It all dries out to deep mud around 3 hours after HW, so access for anything big has to be at the top of the tide! Paynes next door had some very rickety old pontoons made of solid timber. I think they were ex WW2 Army surplus, but amazingly when they cut them up we found the main beams were still sound in many places, though the staging was well past it! www.thornhammarina.com
 
OK Old Harry,

they must have had a massive upgrade in the last few years since I was helping ashore with Tonys' boat - it always has been a great and until recently under-rated boatyard.

Still not convinced about the marina tag though, I kept my fin keeler on a pontoon at Hayling Yacht Co for a while, yes I could walk on and off the boat and even sail her out then back on the next HW springs, but they didn't attempt to call it a marina despite having plenty of such pontoons - I think ' Boatyard with pontoons ' would be a fairer description than ' marina '.

As Scotty exclaims in exasperation at the new-fangled USS Excelsior " Aye, and if If my Granny had wheels she'd be a wagon ! " :)
 
C08 said:
I think that is too big there-they do not seem to have boats bigger than about 38ft.
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Pme couldn't handle a 52fter the finger pontoon are around 30ft long and there be too much overhang, also a few feet after the end of the fingers the mid dives steeply down to the channel. The crane can lift upto 10 tons this I assume wouldn't be enough?
 
Thanks for all the responses folks. I am looking into them. Sorry for the slow response, I am a continent or two away at the moment.
 
I'd be wary about mooring in the channels as there have been regular spates of break ins and thefts in both the portchester and fareham channel and a large mobo would be a juicy target for a tea leaf.
 
nicappotamus 2 said:
I'd be wary about mooring in the channels as there have been regular spates of break ins and thefts in both the portchester and fareham channel and a large mobo would be a juicy target for a tea leaf.
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I have not heard about recent break ins at Fareham - any details. I was broken into on Salterns pontoons a couple of years ago.
 
nicappotamus 2 said:
I'd be wary about mooring in the channels as there have been regular spates of break ins and thefts in both the portchester and fareham channel and a large mobo would be a juicy target for a tea leaf.
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I was thinking more about the hard stand in the yard itself, which should be safer; it might be worth discussing it with them.

Otherwise Port Solent and the cost.
 
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