Introduction time.

Maybe FAmbridge is a bit too far up river. Admittedly the marina is cheaper than Burnham but you'll add an hour or so to any trip out of the river and sailing up and down the Crouch is not the ultimate crusing experience. I'm on a swinging mooring at Priors during the summer and only retire to the marina during the winter. Worth a look. You get a launch service during weekends 9 -5 and any other time during working hours on request. If you're considering weekends on the boat visiting from Grantham there's a lot more to do in Burnham than Fambridge. Out of hours you'll need a dinghy but we have lots of pubs, restaurants, food shops and a cinema. The Ferry Boat Inn at Fambridge is great but that's about it........
 
Erbas said:
Your profile tells other forum users what you want them to know about you. Generally, blank profiles are viewed with a degree of suspicion until a poster is known to be a genuine person (there are those who delight in creating false online persona for fun or mischief. Not that anyone on the ECF would do such a thing. Ahem!)
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Hope I'm real enough despite my virtually blank profile :o:o
 
OR4751 said:
Hope I'm real enough despite my virtually blank profile :o:o
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I think you're real enough Wim :)

Don't dismiss Fambridge so readily Bob, it's great!

Yes, there's lots more to do in Burnham ... and it's a gentle toddle downriver to get there in about an hour. We're ridiculously regular visitors to BYH but we'd have to visit for 46 nights to make up the difference between a Summer Swing Mooring at Fambridge and a permanent berth at Burnham Yacht Harbour

I don't know what Rice and Coles charge for a swinging mooring for the summer ('cos they don't put their prices on their website :disgust:) but a five month winter mooring in BYH would cost us £1072.50 and since we only pay £1460.25 per annum for the full package at Fambridge, the swinging mooring for the summer would have to be down below £390 to match the price

And then there has to be considered that the river at Burnham is wide and quite exposed. It's very rare for conditions to be bad enough upstream at Fambridge to make getting out to the boat impossible or life aboard untenable, however I've been through Burnham more than once in conditions where I, for one, would find life less than comfortable on board on a mooring and where using my own dinghy would be a non-starter. Yes, you've got the trot boat during the week during the day which we technically haven't (although I find a pathetic hangdog look and a plaintiff plea for help very efficacious in persuading the lads to do me a favour from time to time!) but for us at least arrival and departure times are often outside of normal working hours anyway

The facilities for swinging moorers at Fambridge are excellent with a very good dinghy dock, good parking and the 120m pontoon which is free to use for short periods and only a modest charge is levied overnight. The showers are the best on the East Coast by a country mile (and infinitely better than the cramped cubicles at BYH which I find nearly impossible to use due to my dodgy knee)

The extra hour or so on the start and end of a trip really isn't that much of an issue. Those five miles are generally put to good use actually as it's an ideal opportunity to sort out gear after loading up or get stuff ready for the trip home in sheltered waters. If the five and a bit miles from Burnham to Fambridge is a drag, it's nothing compared to the 14 mile slog between Burnham and the Inner Whitaker or Swin Spitway!

Not wishing to start a fight or anything, just saying like! :D
 
Welcome indeed Tony. We're based in Kent but we like Fambridge so may well run into you sometime (probably when trying to turn round in the marina.....:encouragement:)
 
Well, thanks for the welcome all.

Bob, i've not dismissed going anywhere as yet and until i purchase my hole in the water I'm not going to be making any hard and fast decisions. I've had a couple of weekends at Fambridge with Bru, and do kinda like the setting (and the pub), Also spent a very pleasant weekend with Bru at BYH, where i also was able to partake of the hospitality on board Laurin, which was appreciated.

My thoughts on Fambridge are purely selfish and considerably cost based, I'm slightly more familiar with the setup there too.
I've considered Southwold, Wells and a couple of others too, but its actually quicker and easier to get to Fambridge from home, than many of the locations on the east coast (without going across the a52 or upwards).

ATB
 
waitutaki said:
Well, thanks for the welcome all.

Bob, i've not dismissed going anywhere as yet and until i purchase my hole in the water I'm not going to be making any hard and fast decisions. I've had a couple of weekends at Fambridge with Bru, and do kinda like the setting (and the pub), Also spent a very pleasant weekend with Bru at BYH, where i also was able to partake of the hospitality on board Laurin, which was appreciated.

My thoughts on Fambridge are purely selfish and considerably cost based, I'm slightly more familiar with the setup there too.
I've considered Southwold, Wells and a couple of others too, but its actually quicker and easier to get to Fambridge from home, than many of the locations on the east coast (without going across the a52 or upwards).

ATB
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Southwold is handy for Lowestoft or Lowestoft
 
I understand the reasons for not liking the thought of doing a run from Grantham to Wells due to the A52, driven that road myself a fair few times and it's far from pleasant, but the A1 !14 then cross country can be pretty horrendous around the Cambridge area in particular, done that trip enough times to know when it's best avoided. Other options you may want to consider though, Fosdyke Marina and the one planned for Sutton Bridge are worth thinking about
 
Erbas said:
Has it goe up somewhat? I'm sure it was cheaper than that when we bought Erbas?

TSL would probably be my top choice if we decided to move from Fambridge, we do rather like the place and the atmosphere on the Saltings is rather special
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Sadly has gone up by £2 per metre, but all other charges are unchanged. Still cheap compared with elsewhere.

And as you say the atmosphere is special, especially on a stll night with a full moon.

Jo & Ian
 
actually if i didn't live in Burnham I'd say go for Bradwell. The Blackwater has a lot of pleasant cruising just outside the marina. as for costs, I can't afford the marina all year round - hence the swinging mooring! and we often visit Fambridge. It used to have a great clubhouse as well as the pub but that has been shut the last few times we went.
 
Sixpence said:
Ahem :rolleyes:
To be fair, gentlemen, use of any other persona has been nil and none and not for a long time now, worse thing management did was to appoint FC a part time mod, didn't half curse that choice as I think he knows at least some of the alternatives ;) I wouldn't want to put him in the position of having to choose between being a friend and being a mod on here so no other logins have been used by yours truly for some time as I respect him enough to expect him to jump on me :ambivalence:
Not that way either, to the naughty minded types :cool:
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Tis easy that one...from experience being a mod takes priority..
 
Sinbad1951 said:
Why the name Waitutaki...are you a Kiwi?
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Simple answer is No, Many years ago i asked for a translation for something from a cousin who lives in Christchurch, NZ, that's what they came up with as being the nearest possible.

So if anyone can tell me what I was told it translates to, i'll buy them a pint at the fitting up supper, and if i'm not there, then Bru will do it for me. Bru is exempt from this even though his memory is fading. :)
 
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