Keeping a boat on the South Coast: Affordable options please

Talk to Butch at Quay Lane Boatyard, Portsmouth
Swinging mooring or at the boatyard, the boatyard is 1/2 tibd (approc) for dighies. Proced accordingly!
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lw395 said:
Then it's how long to the actual sea?
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I would say its about 2 miles down Southampton water to the Solent and then its about 12 miles each way.

From Ocean Village (which is further up stream, it takes about an hour sailing from OV to get past Calshot with tide and 2 hours against, so I would expect to take about 1/3 off from Marchwood.

Note it is quite nice to be able to potter around in Southampton water, so if you want a morning or afternoon sail you don't have to leave it. There seems to be plenty of space for everyone, even on the busiest days.
 
PhillM said:
From Ocean Village (which is further up stream, it takes about an hour sailing from OV to get past Calshot with tide and 2 hours against, so I would expect to take about 1/3 off from Marchwood.
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Either Marchwood has moved since I was last up there, or this is wrong. As I recall, Marchwood is a further mile or two up Southampton water than Ocean Village, so add 20 - 40 mins to the 1 or 2 hours quoted, rather than subtract it.
 
Kwik Decision said:
Either Marchwood has moved since I was last up there, or this is wrong. As I recall, Marchwood is a further mile or two up Southampton water than Ocean Village, so add 20 - 40 mins to the 1 or 2 hours quoted, rather than subtract it.
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You are correct! I was confusing Marchwood with Hythe sailing club.
 
As others have said, find a nice sailing club with its own moorings. Cheap and cheerful river moorings (all year) for £200-400 and a pontoon (after a wait) for £700-1000. Lots of them about just takes a a little liooking and asking about!
 
grumpy_o_g said:
I don't know what the run from from Oxford to Bristol is like but the Oxford - Hamble commute can be a nightmare on a Friday night sometimes, especially in Summer. Chichester can bring a whole new world of pain after the A34/M3 as well. A very easy run when the traffic is behaving though.
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I was going to suggest looking at Bristol too - I don't think it would be any more difficult a commute from Oxford and it is a lot cheaper than anywhere on the south or east coasts. According to their web site, Bristol Marina is under £250 per metre per year - and that is a serviced marina, not a swinging mooring!
 
maby said:
I was going to suggest looking at Bristol too - I don't think it would be any more difficult a commute from Oxford and it is a lot cheaper than anywhere on the south or east coasts. According to their web site, Bristol Marina is under £250 per metre per year - and that is a serviced marina, not a swinging mooring!
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My mud mooring in Chichester, with a lift out and lift in, winter storage ashore, tender storage, membership of the club (c/w access to cheap and excellent real ales :D), and power and water while I'm ashore, comes to just over a metre; maybe a metre and a half... it really doesn't have to be expensive.... :)
 
Fantasie 19 said:
My mud mooring in Chichester, with a lift out and lift in, winter storage ashore, tender storage, membership of the club (c/w access to cheap and excellent real ales :D), and power and water while I'm ashore, comes to just over a metre; maybe a metre and a half... it really doesn't have to be expensive.... :)
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Quite possibly - but if you look at the pictures of Bristol Marina, it's a lot more than a mud mooring and at about half the price of the cheapest east coast marinas I know of. And forget about the south coast - we're paying over £8000 for a 13 metre hole in the water in Southampton...
 
I know Bristol and its Channel reasonably well, having lived in Somerset and had racing dinghies - which is why I've never been remotely tempted to keep my cruiser there !

We happily commuted to Chichester from the West.

Chichester is a quite lovely sunlit paradise in comparison, and if you get it even half right it costs a fraction of what some people here seem to think; the answer a lot of the time is ' join a sailing club to get a mooring, and much more '.

When looking at Chichester Conservancy - or any other moorings anywhere - remember to ask ' how about secure car parking, somewhere safe to leave a decent tender, and OK the mooring may be deep water 24/7 but is the slip ? - lots of places on the South Coast have tidally restricted tender launch access.
 
maby said:
I was going to suggest looking at Bristol too - I don't think it would be any more difficult a commute from Oxford and it is a lot cheaper than anywhere on the south or east coasts. According to their web site, Bristol Marina is under £250 per metre per year - and that is a serviced marina, not a swinging mooring!
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Dumfries and Galloway Council marinas are about £85 per metre per year. I gave a up a place at Kirkcudbright, where the waiting list is around fifty years ...
 
Seajet said:
I know Bristol and its Channel reasonably well, having lived in Somerset and had racing dinghies - which is why I've never been remotely tempted to keep my cruiser there !

We happily commuted to Chichester from the West.

Chichester is a quite lovely sunlit paradise in comparison, and if you get it even half right it costs a fraction of what some people here seem to think; the answer a lot of the time is ' join a sailing club to get a mooring, and much more '.

When looking at Chichester Conservancy - or any other moorings anywhere - remember to ask ' how about secure car parking, somewhere safe to leave a decent tender, and OK the mooring may be deep water 24/7 but is the slip ? - lots of places on the South Coast have tidally restricted tender launch access.
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You happily commuted? You may have accepted that it was worth the pain but it must have been some time ago if you were actually happy to commute.
 
And also being a mechanical engineer I know that you will have realised you can raise your own E-Boat mast using your spinnaker pole and that making a new trailer is best done by someone else... :-)

cameronke said:
Now there's an interesting suggestion PhillM. I neglected to say that I currently have an E-Boat in Argyll. She has a trailer but it is not road legal being un-braked and has only been used for launching her at Toward Sailing Club on the Clyde. I had been considering upgrading to the larger boat but have had many many blissful hours on the E-Boat which is set up for solo sailing.

Being a mechanical engineer, I have played with the idea of building her a new road trailer / launching trolley system with self raising mast............

Thank you everyone for your much appreciated suggestions. Please keep them coming. You are giving me a lot to think about
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But even good inflatables wear out surprisingly quickly on slipways - they are also impossible to lock securely onto a mooring or slip, as the scrotes can just cut the fabric painter tabs off, I've seen this - and one is left with a big wet muddy weedy rolled up boat to take up a lot of car space on a Sunday night.

And yes, I've always enjoyed the A303, have been travelling it most of my adult life, so a trip along it to a lovely harbour like Chichester is all part of the fun.
 
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