Day visitor mooring in West Mersea

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Can somebody please advise the latest news regarding using a "day visitor" buoy in West Mersea and then using the harbourmaster shuttle( YC1) to get ashore and back for lunch (not overnight) . I vaguely remember that charges for a mooring started some years ago but I haven't been in there for ages.
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David Morgan
 
morgandlm said:
Can somebody please advise the latest news regarding using a "day visitor" buoy in West Mersea and then using the harbourmaster shuttle( YC1) to get ashore and back for lunch (not overnight) . I vaguely remember that charges for a mooring started some years ago but I haven't been in there for ages.
Thanks
David Morgan
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A friend visited and used the club launch last week and said they had stopped charging visitors.

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There is no harbour master. The Club Launch is not a ferry but is happy to assist visitors when it can. You are right that mooring charges had been started a few years back. The charges were not for profit but they assisted the committee to pay for the laying of the nav buoys. The club launch fee did offset the rather expensive running costs but could be defrayed if you took use of the Club. The charging stopped over the Covid thingy and I think Plum is right, they haven't restarted doing it.
 
Answering my own question, I can advise that getting a mooring buoy for a few hours on 6th July was no problem. The MYC launch (Ch 37) was very obliging. Although fairly busy, he allocated a buoy, provided a lift ashore and a return. Lunch in the yacht club was also very good.
David Morgan
 
Good oh. Harry was on duty yesterday; very nice chap as is his brother Zak. They are sons of the owner's of Peter Clarke's boatyard and are very competent. I must have passed you. For the benefit of others, Mon-Thurs, there is only one launch so there is a lunch break normally bet. 1pm to 2pm. It stops at 5.30. On Fri, Sat and Sunday there are two launches and it runs late to 2200. If someone has called up for a lift ashore and the launch passes-by for a while, that will be collecting the antient geezer club member who has the furthest mooring at the end of Salcott! A good lunch - gosh - actually Wednesday's are good cos the chef will be there.
 
Slight thread hijack - for a shallow draft yacht is there room to anchor overnight upstream of the moorings in Saltcott Creek? Not bothered if we touch the bottom overnight (no Tory MP connection intended). If we pick up a buoy up that way will be be charged?
 
Oyster layings beyond the moorings. There are two white moorings vacant just behind Sea Dog. I would be surprised if they charged you (those white buoys are owned by the family of Oyster layings. Before the white buoys start, the orange buoys belong to the Yacht Club - and we think they are not charging at the moment and there are a few - no strops = vacant. I shall be going out tomorrow so I will find out what is definitive.
 
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Mike - a correction. I asked this morning. The launch doesn't charge for a lift ashore or return but does charge for an overnight mooring: £10 up to 35ft, £15 larger. Sorry. As I think I said, the money doesn't go to the mooring owners, it goes into the pot for servicing the ATON.

Jack was the second launchman today - another nice competent young man. He confirmed there is no space for anchoring twixt the end of the moorings and oyster layings. Two boats were working on the layings this morning.
 
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