ip485
Well-Known Member
Would be interested to know your views on various esturaries and anchorages. I mention Chichester not to single them out, but as a typical example.
So there is no doubt it is a seaway off the sea - so to speak. In geographical terms there are lots of similiar types of waterways sometimes a proper estuary with a river flowing in somewhere, sometimes it is technically a Ria like Salcombe.
Anyway, one way or another, very often someone in the form of a harbour master claims authority and one way or another various charges are levied.
It seems to me where a bouy is provided, it is entirely reasonable the owner should charge.
Where a bouy isnt provided, I wonder where the rights to charge arise? For example, in Chichester a charge seems to be levied if you anchor anywhere but in NewTown there is a charge only on a bouy. I think in Chichester's case you are meant to pay harbour dues for passage, but may be I am wrong, regardless of whther or not you anchor.
Doubtless they arise from various byelaws, but it does seem at odds that simply because the sea forms an inlet somehow, someone is entitled to claim ownership and charge to anchor under your own steam so to speak?
and without necessarily minding about paying up, so someone comes by in a launch and "demands" a fee, but how is one to know whether you must pay or not?
So there is no doubt it is a seaway off the sea - so to speak. In geographical terms there are lots of similiar types of waterways sometimes a proper estuary with a river flowing in somewhere, sometimes it is technically a Ria like Salcombe.
Anyway, one way or another, very often someone in the form of a harbour master claims authority and one way or another various charges are levied.
It seems to me where a bouy is provided, it is entirely reasonable the owner should charge.
Where a bouy isnt provided, I wonder where the rights to charge arise? For example, in Chichester a charge seems to be levied if you anchor anywhere but in NewTown there is a charge only on a bouy. I think in Chichester's case you are meant to pay harbour dues for passage, but may be I am wrong, regardless of whther or not you anchor.
Doubtless they arise from various byelaws, but it does seem at odds that simply because the sea forms an inlet somehow, someone is entitled to claim ownership and charge to anchor under your own steam so to speak?
and without necessarily minding about paying up, so someone comes by in a launch and "demands" a fee, but how is one to know whether you must pay or not?
