How much for a night on a mooring buoy!!!!

northwind said:
As you had a buoy, you therefore had a prime spot to watch the fun of watching people trying to leave the visitors pontoon, and seeing the boat that got pinned to others by the fuel. ;)

Surely worth £20?
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No, we were so far up the river we had no sight of the pontoon at all. Peace and quiet is better value than multi boat antics, Yarmouth is the best place for that!
 
Was charged £18 in Fowey and the Yealm last week and £22 in Salcombe. 39 foot boat.
I would also mention that all aforementioned venues had staff going out of their way to be pleasant and helpful. Maybe the flack they have been getting has got through.
 
northwind said:
:)

We were on the pontoon.

How long did it take you to get back to Chi?

We got there on Saturday in 4 hrs, took 7 to sail back :-)
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Yes about 4hrs on Sat, cracking sail! We left on Sunday at 14.00, 15.00 at the river entrance, foul tide 'till about 16.00 just north of Bramble, then fair tide all the way back to West pole at about 1800. A mix of sailing and motoring.

A special thanks to the Hanse Custard Pie who motored with its main up, passing us so closely to windward, leaving little sea room and robbing us of all our power. Bloody bad manners.

PS, we did look to see if we could get on the pontoon, I think luck was in that we didnt!
 
Why Not!

Use a similar system to Marinas ..... ie charge as per boat length?

My reasoning is that larger boats can potentially place more strain and therefore greater wear on the gear / tackle.

I would suggest:

Up to 20’ £5

21’ – 30’ £10

31 – 40’ £20 etc.
 
To put things into proportion, if you have a yacht that cost £100,000 and has a life expectancy of 20 years, your annual depreciation should be £5,000. Assuming you only sail at weekends, this weekend your depreciation would amount to £96.

By this logic, the mooring and the bottle of rum consumed before bed are mere incidentals.
 
OGITD said:
Use a similar system to Marinas ..... ie charge as per boat length?

My reasoning is that larger boats can potentially place more strain and therefore greater wear on the gear / tackle.

I would suggest:

Up to 20’ £5

21’ – 30’ £10

31 – 40’ £20 etc.
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Aye, that is rich coming from someone who is based in the Clyde. I have never paid for mooring or anchoring either in the Clyde or up the West Coast way past Skye. There have been one or two attempts to extract beer tokens from me for using a mooring met with "well I'll just move a wee bit and drop my anchor". With so many free moorings around anyone who pays for one is either a late arrival or has too many beer tokens. The worst has to be Dick Turpin and Co of the BBC - Tried to tell me they owned anchoring rights within Rothesay Bay - even threatened to call the Police if I didn't pay up - Mr Turpin in his RIB was a little shocked when I told him to F'off and get the Police if he wanted - never heard any more from him and now make a point of dropping my anchor just inside his moorings and in front of the old sailing club when (if) I go to Rothesay.
I agree with others - vote with your keels and don't visit anywhere that charges for anchoring or mooring.
 
Resolution said:
To put things into proportion, if you have a yacht that cost £100,000 and has a life expectancy of 20 years, your annual depreciation should be £5,000. Assuming you only sail at weekends, this weekend your depreciation would amount to £96.

By this logic, the mooring and the bottle of rum consumed before bed are mere incidentals.
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The boat IS 20 years old and I did not buy it new.
 
Recently I entered the Beaulieu river to drop off a pal who is a local. I put my boat alongside his 9mored to a bouy and being a sociable chap he invited me on board for a snack. Head, sternlines and a pair of springs were made fast and we went below on his boat. Not two minutes later the HM came alongside demanding £5.50. I can't have been there 20 minutes total. Not wishing to cause my pal embarrassment I paid up, grumbling.

Could park my car in a hospital car park cheaper... (don't get me started on that....)

It is a complete imposition. Ripoff Britain.
 
cliff said:
vote with your keels and don't visit anywhere that charges for anchoring or mooring.
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A bit of a challenge in some parts of the country, though.

For once I'm not actually thinking of the Solent - in three years in Kindred Spirit I paid for marinas a handful of times, paid for a mooring about twice (used them more often, but noone asked for money), and anchored for free very regularly. The "Tightwad Sailor" site (I had a printed-off copy on board) is very helpful here, as is a boat that dries out.

However, if you sail between Falmouth and, say, Salcombe, and you have a fin-keeler that doesn't dry out easily, then I think you would struggle to avoid forking over cash most nights.

For what it's worth, I don't think it's unreasonable to charge for moorings, they cost money to provide. But the cost at the top of this thread is approaching what I think of as marina prices, and that's just silly.

I don't approve of trying to charge for anchoring. If there's a dinghy landing provided then an honesty box on the jetty is as far as things should go.

Pete
 
Steady-on Cliff

cliff said:
Aye, that is rich coming from someone who is based in the Clyde.
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Why!?

I pay for use of the moorings in Lamlash ..... but not in Brodick ... and if I make it to Lochranza I will not be paying for them either as they are maintained by the local council, same as Brodick ..... but will pay for use of their pontoon as it's provided by a local group.

I will never pay for anchoring ...... and I intend to have noted the link:

http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?342998-Can-you-pick-up-a-private-mooring-buoy&highlight=

To show to anyone who is unaware of the rules etc when I have 'just cause' to use a / their mooring buoy. :D
 
Resolution said:
To put things into proportion, if you have a yacht that cost £100,000 and has a life expectancy of 20 years, your annual depreciation should be £5,000. Assuming you only sail at weekends, this weekend your depreciation would amount to £96.

By this logic, the mooring and the bottle of rum consumed before bed are mere incidentals.
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Quite right. I appreciate that many folks will have smaller boats and many run on a tight budget.

But I do find it amazing and outrageous how some folks with big expensive boats moan about paying a small mooring fee - and will often make specific actions to avoid paying the contribution to the mooring costs

NB. Not aimed at the OP as I don't know the wider circumstances, but £20 for a summer weekend evening in a peak location is arguably a bargain
 
dunedin said:
I appreciate that many folks will have smaller boats and many run on a tight budget.
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Do you know me? ;)

dunedin said:
but £20 for a summer weekend evening in a peak location is arguably a bargain
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I would wholeheartedly agree if there were shoreside facilities.

But I only think it fair that you 'big-uns' pay a little more ..... due to wear & tear etc. :eek:
 
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Seajet said:
Bucklers Hard has been off my list for decades due to the rip-off charges and terrible harbour staff stomping into cockpits and trying to open hatches to demand charges despite the receipt in the window and patrol boats simulating MTB's in the river collecting charges just for anchoring the second the hook hits the seabed !

I understand people say they're better nowadays but I'll happilly bypass the place until Montagu and his attitude are gone, it could be a lovely place but his attitude ruins it, the ' Master Builders ' pub is a case in point, captive market so high prices and diabolical food.

I was actually moved to buy an ordnance survey map to find better places within walking or taxi distance.
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I would dearly love anybody without a firearm to 'stomp into my cockpit' or 'try my hatch',he would be in A&E. is that true or exaggeration? All the best Jerry.
 
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