Cost of lift out and a bit of hardstanding

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Need to get my old tub out the water for scrub off+antifoul,tart up outdrives and get props unbent .Wandered across road to inquire as to lift out costs.
Pound per foot for out and same for back in.Storage 66p per foot per week,so for 33ft boat @ 2 weeks ashore about 110.00(no Vat) and there are two pubs within 50M.
 
I did a two week package, 18 months ago when I had all that shaft trouble, problem was it went over the two weeks because of having to get a new shaft made..and ended up costing me more than if I had two separate lifts.
ie I paid up front for the two weeks, but then had to pay again to put back in.
Well over £300 quid in total that was.
So make sure you dont go over.

Steve.
 
Am just trying to find resturant that will liquidise your food or have your new teeth arrived and Maggie has got you back on solids. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
well ok, maybe spain is not such a good idea.

I pay lift out and back, £450 plus £150 a month whilst ashore.
 
I know I'm a bit newish to this , but I can't help wondering why you pay these charges , I was lifted OUT at the start of the season (yes I know it's not meant to be out) and was charged £10-00 , not in a marina but the concrete hardstanding is used to store boats in winter at little charge if any. The owner of the land is a boatie , and everyone on this river gets together , plans the in and out day , meets at start of day after hiring a crane for half a day . All help with boats and all share the cost. Why don't others try
 
You obviously don't have a boat anywhere near the Solent then, otherwise you'd understand the costs. The fact you mention river means you are somewhere cheap inland. Not that always means cheap. When I was on Thames at Wargrave, costs were similar to Lymington on South Coast. Cost varies by area, by demand, and what operators can get away with
 
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The owner of the land is a boatie , and everyone on this river gets together , plans the in and out day , meets at start of day after hiring a crane for half a day . All help with boats and all share the cost.

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Take Note!

If that was the way everything was done, wouldn't sailing/boating be an even more pleasant experience? (can you hear "Keep The Red Flag Flying" in the background?)
 
lift out... lift back in... ashore until march 30th... electric etc included... 560 earth quids.

deepest darzet.... ooooh arrrrr.
 
Most areas will have extremes on cost,but the dead handy factor does count for a lot,so if your marina hardstanding is not too expensive then why not use it.
The problem with the collective crane out thing is many users of this forum have a serious 52 week boating habit and any time ashore leads to vague feelings of unease,cos all sorts of expensive stuff that needs fixing always suddenly appears when the boat is high and dry.Keep your boat afloat all year and all mending expence is reduced dramatically.
 
sorry haven't responded before , been working and just got in , yes I do appreciate that south coast moorings are expensive and yes my boat is kept on a river , non tidal , but I am also within easy striking distance of the wash , which leads to the north sea and beyond , and the boat is out of the water for major refit , for the first time in four years , when on the river I can reach tidal waters at river legal speed in thirty minutes , and just don't understand why those on the south coast keep paying extortionate fees , when you do have the option to move . Sorry if you feel I have trodden on toes , and I'll but out and leave you to it
 
It's all down to where you live and what you expect for your money.

I have access to tidal waters instantly, and can be out on the Solent in a few minutes, and out past the Needles about 10-15 minutes later. At the same time I can drive there of an evening in well under 2 hours so I can get good usage from the boat, whereas putting it somewhere on a non tidal river on the east coast would mean extended long weekend trips only would be worthwhile as it would take me many hours to get there.

It's all very well saying you have cheap moorings, but there are a bunch of other factors to take into account, and living in Thames Valley, there aren't many accessible cheap solutions, so for some of us "extortionate " south coast fees are part of using the boat regularly rather than not using it.

Some like Haydn keep their boat hundreds of miles away, but he has the luxury of going out on extended cruises of many weeks to make up for the distance. For some of us that is unreasonable, so we keep the boat in driving distance that we can use it regularly, and pay the price for the convenience. Sorry if that offends your sensibiliites, but it's part of boating for many of us, and I'm sure there are many would pay less if they could get away with something of a reasonable compromise, but there are many like me where East coast, Northwest coast, Scotland etc, which offer wonderful cruising, at cheap prices, but just too far away
 
what "offends my sensibiliites" , is the fact that I am sneared at because I choose not to spend a fortune on moorings and lift costs and prefer to spend on my boat , for this I sacrifice thirty minutes of river travel . It seems to me that this forum is no such thing . It is for those from Cambridgeshire southward to have another little club that anyone too far north or not already a member is not welcome in . All I was trying to point out to those saying "it's all too much" , is that you don't have to pay. If you choose to have it one way why complain about the pitfalls .
 
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