Cost of boating in the U.K.

[nmunnery]

Sorry, didn't mean to create a controversy. It is my wife who wants to return, she still misses the England she remembers form 20 years ago. Yes I do think England id a great country, but I do love it here.

Yes there is a huge amount of boating in these waters, this is Ontario's lakeland with literally thousands of lakes, hundreds of marinas and yacht clubs. Water is the focus of peoples lives in the summer and the ice and snow in the winter.

I am considering keeping my boat and membership of my yacht club and simply sailing here in summer and living on the boat then returning to the U.K. for winter.

Yes you are right, to have access to the Med and Baltic is very attractive but at what cost? As for Toronto, I don't like it much myself but I am not a city person. However the Stones love the place and are very often here jamming in the many first rate jazz and music clubs. So it can't all be bad!

Thanks for your comments.

Norman

 

[Litotes]

At what cost?

My mooring, in a beautiful place with easy access at all states of the tide, costs me £80 per year, plus any maintenance on the mooring itself, which comes to very little when spread over the years.

 

[ebbtide]

That really is annoying as neither post nor profile reveal where you are. Not on this planet maybe?

And as for the expat in exile, it's a truism I know, but boats are like women: if you can't afford 'em find another habit!

 

[cliff]

What's wrong - didn't you like the answers to your post regarding the same question here? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity.

 

[Litotes]

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That really is annoying as neither post nor profile reveal where you are. Not on this planet maybe?


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Why are you annoyed? There are plenty of places where you can keep a boat this way if you can bear to be separated from the convenience of a marina. Easy to find that out if you are prepared to take the trouble. A friend of mine who has a lovely cutter a little further up the coast, also on a mooring, pays £56 per year.

I own the mooring and pay the £80 annually to an oyster farmer who has title to that section of the creek. No doubt that will give you a clue as to where it is. Incidentally, I have never in all my sailing career, which spans some 50 years, paid a fee to anchor.

 

[matelot]

Why would you want to come back, and for the winter at that! Dont you remember the long nights, the cold damp, the rain etc? If you wanted to avoid the heat of a Canadian summer I could understand, but to consider our winters ................... /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Boating is expensive here. Its a small island so land is way more expensive than Canada, which by comparison is empty. And boating here is mostly in the sea which again is a more expensive exercise than the lakes in Canada. Not just the UK mind you - its getting expensive in France and other EU countries too.