Mooring/Marina Advice Please

[adri]

Hi

I'm looking at getting a 23/24 footer and searching for mooring opportunities which would suit the sailing I'd like to do. We live in Derbyshire and so perhaps somewhere near Anglesey or thereabouts would be good as we could drive there in a couple of hours.

We aren't rich sailors! So how do you go about finding a reasonably priced mooring/marina?

Is there a website to search?

Thanks in advance for any replies.

Adri

 

[Bru]

http://www.pbo.co.uk/marina-guide?s...annual-berth-guide-2016&region=&orderby=title

The PBO Marina Guide is fairly comprehensive and will give you comparative costs

You'll get plenty of advice (some of it no doubt conflicting!) on here

My suggestion would be to consider the East Coast and specifically the Thames Estuary. A little further to travel but a lot more places to go when you get there

 

[Laysula]

We used to keep our boat on a mooring in Holyhead. three hour trip from Burton on Trent. Moorings were very reasonable with a club launch,great sailing club and plenty of good sailing destinations,either short day sails or longer hops to Isle of man, Ireland or Scotland.
http://holyheadsailingclub.co.uk/

 

[NickRobinson]

Hi Adri
I'm Derbyshire too so the UK is our oyster! (as in everywhere is a drive....)
Expect us all to recommend our own berths and then get flamed for port X being 'orrible!
Good roads are really useful. Getting to Anglesey can be a drag, but nice when there. Fleetwood where I am just now, good facs, town tired, is motorway nearly all the way (OK except for Tintwhistle/Mottram! if you are N Derbys.) Hartlepool OK but if sailing a 24' a bit limited. Skeggy/Norfolk cheap but dire to get to.

You could always grab a sail with me/others... After my round Britain I'm off to Eire/Skye this summer http://britainbyrivendell.weebly.com/

 

[MarcJ]

We've been at Pwllheli and Abersoch the last couple of years. If you get a bilge keeler it'll be a lot cheaper to keep. The Llyn is a beautiful part of the world, we love it!

 

[C08]

Both Gwynedd Council and the Isle of Anglesey have mooring spots in the Menai Straits. They allocate a location, give you a mooring number you put down the mooring or get a moorings contractor to put down the mooring and you pay perhaps £3-400 per year for a drying mooring and a little more for an all tides one. . There are also moorings run by boatyards both sides of Menai Bridge which are a bit more expensive but the boatyard maintains the moorings for the extra cost. There are also moorings at Conwy, and Porthmadog. A particularly good spot is Shell Island (Mochras) where the serviced moorings are in a lagoon just inshore from between Harlech and Barmouth. There used to be a very good sailing club there and there is also a bar, restaurant and a campsite. There are lots of places in N Wales and apart from the marinas it is mostly cheap & cheerful. Enjoy.

 

[[3889]]

Lay your own mooring in the Dee estuary at Thurstaston for nothing and save 50 miles of driving. Not much in the way of facilities, though.
Good luck getting a mooring from Anglesey Council, unless things have changed a lot. The mooring officer is hopeless and seems to have no idea about what's where.

 

[Mister E]

Llanbeder sailing club is just over £100 for the first year membership and mooring but you have to lay your own.
All the below have spaces as of 3 weeks ago.
Shell Island camp site do a summer and winter deal.
Pwllheli would be about £600 for the year (1st April to 31st March) but you would need something that can dry out.
One yard at Port Dinorwic are doing a deal for about £1000 this includes winter lift out and storage on the hard.

Contact the marinas directly not Gwynedd council.

PM for more info