Liverpool Marina

[LittleShip]

Liverpool has to be the worst marina in the North West

I have to disagree with this statement, I was in Liverpool for 3 years and found the staff the owners great fun and the marina reasonable value, the boatyard is a tip but the marina and facilities are OK.

Now if you mean the position of the marina I will agree about the distance to the fairway marker but, 10min walk to the city center and it is a great night out.

I moved from there to get all states of the tide the only point that they couldn't offer.

Fiddlers Ferry is about 20% of the cost you can spend the rest repairing the damage getting there! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Fleetwood.......... Oh yes been there too! never again. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[catalac08]

would subscribe to comments about Fiddlers Ferry - a lovely and very cheap spot to overwinter but the lock gates off the mersey to the section of (closed) canal used as the marina/haven are limited in the size of vessels that can use them.

the upper reaches of the mersey are an education and timing is crucial as the window of water is quite narrow but it is quite an interesting trip with lots of wildlife and the pilotage is ok once you get to know it - best to take a advice from the Fiddlers Ferry yacht club to get the current pilotage on the river.

one thing to beware of in the pasage up the river is that if you dry out in the channel leading to the Spike Island lock (seems like a good option if running out of time/water), when the tide returns it is in the form of a bore that will take an anchored small boat onto its side, until the water is above the channel sides.

My boat when I had a bad experience was 26ft/4 tonnes and had about 50 degrees of heel for about 5 minutes until she floated which was a highly worrying experience and that was only on a 8.5 metre (liverpool) tide.

 

[joe17]

Interesting "white water" in the river adjacent to the yard. At first I thought it was sand/mud, but as you zoom in you can see it isnt. Could just be the way the sun is lined up and reflecting on the river for that stretch. Then again, looking at the power station lagoons to the west it could be anything.

 

[savageseadog]

Yes it's a reflection of the sun, there's water there!. The images are a composite, if you've noticed they aren't all taken at the same time or even same day/month/year so the tide is out or in dependinding on where you look. Annoying that there's no images out to sea but I guess we can't complain, they're free, and many times better than anything you could access before.

 

[bigwow]

The "white water adjacent to the yard" could be the bouy which is just under the surface on some tides.

 

[colvic987]

Thats a really old picture of fidlers ferry, my boats still in the pic and i left 6 years ago...

 

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[I was in Liverpool for 3 years and found the staff the owners great fun

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Great fun maybe but efficient, definitely no. I was there 12 months and three times I turned up at 6am to get the last lock on a falling tide, only to be met by unlit windows and an eerie silence on 37.

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10min walk to the city center

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Erm... 2 miles and the start is through Toxteth - nice.

I live 25 minutes away and wouldn't dream of keeping my boat there.





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[LittleShip]

To each there own

As stated I was there for 3 years and had no problems, I only left for all states of the tide and Albert dock is only 1 mile away.

Tom