Mooring around Marlow

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Hi! We are in the process of buying a boat (newbies to buying though have hired boats for a few years) and looking for morring clsoe to Marlow. Has anyone had problems getting through to Harleyford Marina? They confrimed there was a suitable vacant berth and even showed us around.. now radio silence and I can't get them to reply to emails or phone message? Any sugegstions or know of other marinas clsoe to Marlow (we can't stay where we bought the boat from as its simply too far to be practical). Many thanks.
 
Hello, and welcome to the thrilling experience of boat ownership, which provides more simple pleasures than anyone expects combined with many self inflicted ways to make yourself poorer.... I'm sure you'll love it as much as the rest of us!
I can't personally help re Marlow moorings but others on here may well be able to, especially if you can tell us make/length etc and the sort of mooring you are after?
 
Thanks Gavin. We are buying a Shetland 245 (survey next week), so 7.5m length. Preferably mooring that has electric.
Ps already poorer from buying it - holidays sorted for the forseeable ?
 
If Harleyford have already showed you a mooring why don't you visit the boatyard again and see if you can find the person who showed you around.

There is a lot of demand around that area. Other options are Hambleden Marina, Val Wyatt, Bushnell's or possibly Bourne End but suspect they are all full.

It's not the cheapest part of the River. Nice area for boating though.
 
My mooring is at Hambleden and it's full with a long waiting list, to the extent that the marina manager told me at the turn of the year that he'd stopped accepting any more folks onto the waiting list as no-one ever leaves...

Although I guess there will always be the chance that someone does leave, but his policy is/was to fulfil any such vacancies from the waiting list.
 
I was moored by Steve SRB's boat for a couple of years until April this year. You probably saw me in the dinghy or my little grey battle cruiser occasionally.

Depending on the OP requirements it might be worth asking Steve as he sometimes has small moorings (it is a field at Medmenham) available. No services but an off road car park and water supply about 5 minutes walk from boat. It's a nice place and pretty secure although on the River itself and a footpath. Depends what you want.

Not sure if he has any room at the moment but could be worth an enquiry.

Mention "that irritating bloke in the dinghy" and I'm sure he would do a special deal. You might even get away with a 15% uplift on the monthly rate ;)
 
Thanks everyone. I persevered as they’d shown us a berth etc… after goodness knows how many attempts, got through and they confirmed… yeah! See you on the Thames from 1 July (tho we’ve bought an unnnamed boat and choosing a name is harder than choosing my kids names ?)
 
Don't worry about choosing a name for your boat then - just choose your favourite kid and name it after them...
 
The Russians do it

Anna

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Sadly for the owner at 110m its not able go navigate the lovely River.
 
He had ANNA 1 as well until recently! That mast was supposed to be twice as tall.

BARBARA was another large yacht named after a daughter !
 
And DILBAR of course named after a mother.

I have two girls but would never embarrass them by naming a boat after them ! It's just too unoriginal and naff.
 
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