Mooring charges

[DavidofMersea]

Our club charges for a mooring by the foot. This seems daft to me, if you have a mooring, you have a mooring. I cannot see what difference it makes how long the boat that you put on it is.

Do other clubs charge for moorings by the foot?

David of West Mersea

 

[LadyInBed]

A lot of clubs have the mooring charges banded to a range of lengths. Probably on the dubious grounds that the bigger the boat, the more it cost, so the more you can afford! But equally, with swinging moorings, the bigger the boat, the heavier the ground tackle needs to be and the deeper moorings need more ground tackle. With trots, the larger the boat, the less moorings per mile, so a charge per foot could be justified.

 

[janie]

Our Club charges per metre, but it seems to work fairly well, since the longer boats are wider, and can only fit some of the spaces.

 

[Cornishman]

If I were the proud owner of, say, a Hurley 22 I would not be very happy at paying the same mooring fees as the guy with 60 foot Swan or similar. Would you?

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[Twister_Ken]

OTOH

If you were the proud owner of Swan 60, you'd be delighted to be paying the same fee as a Hurley 22.

 

[vyv_cox]

I think it makes quite a lot of difference, especially on a tidal, swinging mooring. I can't be bothered to do the calculation, but the swinging circle area occupied by a 60 ft yacht and a length of chain at low water is a lot more than the equivalent for a 22 footer.

 

[Twister_Ken]

I think the 'by length' rationale also dates from the days of mooring alongsdie quays, jetties, long pontoons (rather than fingers), etc. where two 40 footers would take up space that could have been used by three 25 footers.

 

[robp]

Just ask youself, if every boat on a mooring was 40', would they get the same amount of boats in/on moorings? I doubt it, so there has to be some rationale.

 

[bedouin]

You could make the case that in being charged by the foot, the bigger boats get off lightly.

Since mose marinas are limited as to the area they can occupy - why not charge by the area (e.g. length x beam) - roughly the square of the length.

On swinging moorings the critical factor is either the amount of space they require to swing (square of LOA) or the mass, so they should charge by the cube of the length.

There seems little justification for asking the owner of a 60' boat to pay only twice as much as a 30' when he is taking up 4 times the water, and has ground tackle 8 times the weight!

 

[trev]

What I resent is being charged for a forty foot boat but only given a thirty foot pontoon to moor her to.

Trev

 

[LadyInBed]

Thats how VNF do it for the French canals.
What I used to object to (in Jersey), when I has a 22 footer, was the minimum charge equiv to having a 33 foot boat. There was me on my tod paying the same as a boat with 4 or 5 people on.

 

[DavidofMersea]

Thanks for those thoughts folks. I should have mentioned that these are half tide swinging moorings which are all the same. I don't think there is a boat over 30 feet, and not many over 25 feet.

David of West Mersea

 

[Cornishman]

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[Endymion]

As a comparison David...

...just over the other side of the Colne, half tide drying moorings are a fixed price with a maximum size of 26 foot. Fixed price is about £110 +VAT for 12 months.

Full tide swinging moorings are restricted to 26 foot and are charged by the foot for either 6 months or 12 months.

All other moorings are Fore/Aft, Piled or Pontoon which are again by the foot and over a period of either 6 or 12 months.

Endy

 

[ianwright]

Would that be the same trot as Maid of Tesa? Well uptide of the pontoon?

IanW

Vertue 203, Patience

 

[ianwright]

Why not by Thames Tonnage? Or Registered Tonnage,,,,,,
at least such a system would have history on its side.

IanW.

Vertue 203, Patience

 

[halcyon]

We have equallity, all are charged £120, any boat to 32 foot.


Brian