Mooring charges

[muchy_]

I'm paying mooring charges for a 30' boat, which seeing as it's a 30' boat seems fair. The thing that gets me is that my mooring is stern on so surely I should only be paying for 12'? Is this the way it works everywhere or is there something afoot here?

 

[Its_Only_Money]

Doubtful but what is your rationale for 12'? Are you in a marina with a 12' long finger or on a pontoon with access only to the end 12'? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Mooring charges are alway based on overall length but you should expect "facilities" commensurate with that length, ie a marina finger pretty close to 30', piles suitable for a 30'+ apart, swinging mooring with enough room to swing a 30' etc etc. Bow- or stern-to shouldn't make any difference per se. Assuming you are in a marina are all the berths on 12' fingers????

 

[[2574]]

I think Muchy get's his 12' from the beam of his vessel (because he is moored stern to). I think we all have to realise that mooring a boat is little different from renting office space - it's all about square feet - or AREA - consumed by one's boat in a marina. After all, the area of water available is what marina operators have to sell and therefore must be the critical business driver and key performance indicator - (income/sq mtr).

rgds

rob

 

[muchy_]

The mooring is on riverfront property so my boat sticks out into the river which I pay a licence fee to be on and does not belong to the yard owner. The 12' comes from the beam of my boat which is all that is being taken up of the boatyards frontage. So my reasoning is that me and and the other eight boats that moor there are paying over the odds.
What do you think?

 

[[2574]]

No, don't agree. This is simply a matter of division. The operator needs an amount of income and he derives this by charging you £x per metre LOA. If you would prefer to be billed on the basis of beam I expect he'd have no problem with this but you would not be charged £x but £y (a higher rate) to derive the same income. The only point you may have is if you believe the operator is making "super profits" which you could only determine from seeing his business accounts. If the operator is a limited company then why not get his accounts from Companies House and see what reality is.

 

[Its_Only_Money]

I would assume the boatyard has a licence and pays for the area of water taken up by their moorings (not just the frontage length). In which case charging by length is the usual way of effectively charging for the area of water taken up as posted above.

 

[Aardee]

I'm sure the owner will be only too pleased to charge per foot of beam...at 3 x the cost per foot of LOA.

It costs what it costs, however you calculate it.

Graham.