East Head /anchoring charges

There is no charge for anchoring in Newton. You may make a donation to the National Trust but you don't have to. The boatman who collects the fees in Newton normally makes that clear. In Chichester as has been said earlier the charge is a 'Harbour Due' for entering the harbour.
 
Steve Clayton said:
Notes elsewhere; Chi harbour patrol collecting last weekend. Didn't know that the Conservancy charge "dues" for visitor boats at anchor - bit like Newtown Creek and the NT.
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Dunno if it still applies or not but there used to be a reciprocal arrangement with Langsone harbour. If youd paid in one it covered you for the other. It was never well publicised !
 
It's a small enough charge and pays for a valuable service, everywhere else I go there seem to be mad PWC's etc but never in Chichester. They surely can't be faultless but this little bit of socialism works darned well. I love the background story to the ownership of East Head - another piece of local socialism.
 
prv said:
(Stands for Personal Water Craft.)
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macd said:
Jetski and wetbike. They're different.
(The former takes skill and has fallen out of favour for the latter, which any numpty can ride.)
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Ah hah - I hadn't realised the terminology distinction (Jetski is the generic term for non-afficionados) but I definitely recognise the difference. As a teenager we used to get an occasional go on a family friend's pair of jetskis, one stand-up and one sit-down, but both of which had to be moving to support the rider's weight and stay upright. If you stopped, the stand-up ski would sink by the stern and the sit-down one would roll over.

When we first encountered the larger boatlike machines that you could sit on like a pudding when stationary, we were very dismissive :)

Pete
 
VicS said:
Dunno if it still applies or not but there used to be a reciprocal arrangement with Langsone harbour. If youd paid in one it covered you for the other. It was never well publicised !
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As someone who used to moor 'between the bridges' (actually in Chichester harbour but for a sailing boat, access was via Langstone Harbour) I understand that there is a benevolent arrangement between the harbours. I always paid the Chichester Harbour Conservancy dues and there was never a problem with the Langstone Harbour Board.

Both harbours are lovely to sail and do need periodic maintenance and surveying. A few pounds every year isn't much to ask...
 
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prv said:
Ah hah - I hadn't realised the terminology distinction....
When we first encountered the larger boatlike machines that you could sit on like a pudding when stationary, we were very dismissive :)
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Then you'll have an idea how challenging jetskis can be, Pete, which is especially true if there's even a slight sea running. Hard physical work, too -- a bit like motocross (or "scrambling" if you're over a certain age ;))
 
sailor211 said:
So how much for anchouring overnight. £6:00 for a weekend or £4:00 for a day?
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Fantasie 19 said:
http://www.conservancy.co.uk/page/harbour_dues__charges/319
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I suspect sailor211 knows that. I took his question to be if you are anchoring overnight on, say, the Saturday, whether you have to pay Harbour Dues for one day - i.e. a single period of 24 hours - or whether you have to pay for both Saturday and Sunday (because you are still in the harbour on the Sunday morning).

I have to say that I, for one, don't know the answer and couldn't find it on the Conservancy website, but I suspect "day" means coming and going without overnighting.

(The issue doesn't arise if overnighting in a marina, because you are permitted to stay up to a certain time in the morning).
 
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prv said:
But surely you will still be sailing in the harbour both days even if staying in a marina?

Pete
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Sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant that if I go to, say, East Cowes. I pay for one night. Because they allow me to stay until the morning. But harbour dues operate differently.

So, somewhere that charges for anchoring (e.g. Beaulieu) will charge you for a single night at anchor. Somewhere that doesn't charge for anchoring, but levies harbour dues instead would, in the same situation, want paying for two days.

I think.

The bit in brackets wasn't trying to say "it's ok, I don't need to pay harbour dues for the day I leave", it was trying to say "I know that if I stay in a marina overnight I only need to pay for one night, not two days". (except for some rip-off merchants in the Med that I have read about on here).
 
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Angele said:
I suspect sailor211 knows that. I took his question to be if you are anchoring overnight on, say, the Saturday, whether you have to pay Harbour Dues for one day - i.e. a single period of 24 hours - or whether you have to pay for both Saturday and Sunday (because you are still in the harbour on the Sunday morning).

I have to say that I, for one, don't know the answer and couldn't find it on the Conservancy website, but I suspect "day" means coming and going without overnighting.

(The issue doesn't arise if overnighting in a marina, because you are permitted to stay up to a certain time in the morning).
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Yes I sort of expect to be charged for Saturday and Sunday if I anchour overnight, although I would be in the harbour for less than 24 hrs.
 
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