Crouch Area Yachting Federation Update - for Club Noticeboards

[Bru]

There are lots of empty berths in BYH and lots of vacant buoys in the river. Boats on the Crouch pay a licence fee. Perhaps cost has a bearing. Every little helps not. Everywhere else seems to survive. Just seems a bit odd to me.

Not sure where these empty berths and vacant buoys are to be honest. Not my impression at all

And I really can't see how the paltry harbour dues can have a significant impact given the they're a very small fraction of the cost of a berth or buoy

 

[NUTMEG]

I like Maldon just the way it is. If you want to overnight there, contact any of the yards and they will find you a berth. It is a quirky place I know, but dredging takes place every winter, although it'is true, this is done for the few commercial boats, not us Yottie types.

Speeding is sort of self regulated to a large extent and the place, well, just works somehow.

Lots of old and interesting boats and a few hulks, a number of semi official liveaboards, it is very 'east coast', not a blazer or cravat in sight . Long may it continue.

 

[Lucky Duck]

Not sure where these empty berths and vacant buoys are to be honest. Not my impression at all

And I really can't see how the paltry harbour dues can have a significant impact given the they're a very small fraction of the cost of a berth or buoy

The outer third on D pontoon for a start but I doubt the harbour dues are a big factor in this.

Reference an earlier post about SYH, the waiting list disappeared years ago

 

[DanTribe]

Wasn't it set up in the seventies to protect the river from a threat of commercial exploitation?

Istr that I read somewhere that the river bed had been acquired by a company and that the local councils sponsored a parliamentary act to create a trust port and aquire the river for the public benefit

My recollection is that an investment company bought up the Whitstable Oyster Co., who had the rights to the river bed, historically to farm shellfish. These rights were also deemed to cover extraction of aggregates.
At the time the Maplin Airport project looked very possible so the dredging rights would have been a goldmine. The CHA was hastily set up to prevent this happening, so worthwhile for that alone.
If Boris Johnson gets his way it may still be relevent

 

[nigelm]

Reference an earlier post about SYH, the waiting list disappeared years ago

Strange , their website says different.

 

[Koeketiene]

Strange , their website says different.

If you are serious about a berth/mooring at SYH, it is best to turn up and speak to the berthing master in person.
SYH, don't really do phone/e-mail/internet very well.
It's a quirky place, with people to match, but I like it here.

 

[nigelm]

I might consider moving up that way if I could find a swinging mooring with a trot boat service , what about RHYC ?

 

[Lucky Duck]

RH haven't run a trot boat for a couple of years now, MDL charge approximately £40 to use their trot boat to get to other people's moorings

The MDL boat packs up around 6pm which I would find quite limiting if I had to rely on it

 

[Koeketiene]

The MDL boat packs up around 6pm which I would find quite limiting if I had to rely on it

+1
Even if SYH did run a trot boat, I would still have a tender of my own.
Much prefer to come and go as and when I please.