jimmynoboat
New member
Many of you are lucky enough to live close to where your boat is parked and that's great. Many of us however, live where several harbours are just about as near or far away. In my case I even have a choice of East, South or West coast at similar distances. Putting aside the obvious high (and getting higher) cost of travelling to the boat this can be an advantage.
This year my plan is to haul the boat out of the water for a month as soon as my current 'extremely expensive' anual berth expires then, after a little bit of work, pop her back in and take a week or two to sail her round to her new (considerably cheaper) berth. The new berth has to start from 1st April which is when the current one expires and, to get the best price I have to take it on from that date even though I won't arrive there until six weeks into the term. In addition to that the weather does not care about my wallet and may have it's own plans.
I've got to sit down with the abacus to see if I'm better off paying monthly but I was just thinking . . . isn't this a dissincentive to really using your boat to get around a bit, see different places, seek out strange new civilisations, boldly go ... etc?
I understand why they offer a good rate for a long term berth but why do so many of them have to run from a particular date? Is it just to make it easy for addministration? if so, I think that's a pretty poor show.
And, while I'm on this particular soap-box, why must it cost me three months fees to get out of an anual contract? I could have done this when I really wanted to at the end of last season except it would have cost me about £850 in lost fees.
I'm sure you'll put me right.
This year my plan is to haul the boat out of the water for a month as soon as my current 'extremely expensive' anual berth expires then, after a little bit of work, pop her back in and take a week or two to sail her round to her new (considerably cheaper) berth. The new berth has to start from 1st April which is when the current one expires and, to get the best price I have to take it on from that date even though I won't arrive there until six weeks into the term. In addition to that the weather does not care about my wallet and may have it's own plans.
I've got to sit down with the abacus to see if I'm better off paying monthly but I was just thinking . . . isn't this a dissincentive to really using your boat to get around a bit, see different places, seek out strange new civilisations, boldly go ... etc?
I understand why they offer a good rate for a long term berth but why do so many of them have to run from a particular date? Is it just to make it easy for addministration? if so, I think that's a pretty poor show.
And, while I'm on this particular soap-box, why must it cost me three months fees to get out of an anual contract? I could have done this when I really wanted to at the end of last season except it would have cost me about £850 in lost fees.
I'm sure you'll put me right.