glasgow pontoons, broomielaw etc

two years ago this was how you booked the Broomielaw pontoon; Luigi Rossi
Graduate Technician
Project Management and Design
Land and Environmental Services
Floor 4
231 George Street
Glasgow
G1 1RX
Phone 0141 287 9352
Email luigi.rossi@glasgow.gov.uk

we never used it (we were only launching canoes). it has a security gate etc.

many years ago we motored up to opposite broomielaw, tied up to old renfrew ferry. which was fine until the tide wnet out, and we heeled over to 45 degrees, and hoped the ferry didn't slide on the mud (she didn't)
 
I was talking to a guy a month ago who had just come back from a trip up the Clyde. He moored his yacht on Pontoons in the mouth of the River Kelvin, which are attached to the Riverside Transport Museum. He said the mooring was free for visitors when he was there and the ramp from the pontoons had a gate at the top. Having been born and bred in Glasgow I said I would have expected that he would have been at risk of trouble from Neds as you say. He said that his stay on the pontoons was fine and his crew walked into Glasgow with no problem. However, when they left the following day a group of Neds threw bricks at them from the other bank of the Kelvin.
 
I know it nominally opens, but I don't think you'll get past Bells bridge.
There's (or used to be at least) a pontoon at the Crowne Plaza that I've seen boats on, perhaps contact them?
 
A trip up to Glasgow is well worth while, although it feels a wee bit strange going past woodlands and greenery in what were still busy shipyards until about 30 years ago.

Even on Saturdays, on trips doon the watter, the yards would be alive with metal being pressed, rivets driven home and showers of sparks cascading down the staging.

There were free pontoons available, but we chose the pay pontoon at the mouth of the Kelvin (it was handiest for a sesh in the Nevis Bar).

I was born and largely brought up in Glasgow and, as a child, used to cycle around the yards, docks and grain elevators; it felt very strange going back to my native city on a yacht.
 
JBJag27 said:
I know it nominally opens, but I don't think you'll get past Bells bridge.
There's (or used to be at least) a pontoon at the Crowne Plaza that I've seen boats on, perhaps contact them?
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I believe that that pontoon is now owned / managed by the SECC.

It started life for the Garden Festival, then was taken over by the Moat House Hotel, which renamed as Crowne Plaza.

Ash
 
There is a large pontoon at the Braehead centre on the south side a few hundred yards past the cart river and rothesay dock, or you could raft alongside a boat in rothesay dock itself. You wont get to broomielaw with mast up.
A few years ago i launched hb at rothesay dock with mast off and motored to glasgow green weir at nautical college.
Not sure who contact is for breahead pontoon.
If you do decide on rothesay dock let me know and i will open gate (to road) to let u get out and even give u a lift to glasgow and back. I live a half mile from the dock.
There is also a modern pontoon out of the main river beside the titan crane/clydebank college just down stream of rothesay dock.
Cw
 
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