Moorings in Cardiff Bay

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Afternoon All

Its been 3 years in the working, complete refurbishment but I could be ready to launch my Invader 2200 in the next couple of months. I would like to keep it in Cardiff Bay, any suggestions which club would be best ?

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Stu
 
use a standard sand wedge for the approach, even if the bunker is wet. A more lofted iron could be useful downwind.
 
Hi Stu,I can recommend Cardiff Yacht Club, nice bunch of people lots going on, check out our website, or the other option is Cardiff Bay Yacht club. At CYC
wednesday night is a good night to meet people and have a chat, or failing that saturday lunchtime, see you soon.
 
We joined CYC a year back and I have to say I have found the club to be welcoming and very friendly. It is, I think, more 'club like' and volunteer run, rather than professional, which I find very good.

There is one chap in particular to watch out for, mind, but I think he's already replied...... /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
In 2004 I had the same problem, I visited all the places on the bay and decided on CYC. I have never had any regrets. I would suggest you do the same and see how you feel about each place.
Allan
 
Exactly as Allan did, I visited both clubs in the Bay - At CBYC I was mocked for only having a boat of 26' by the most pompous individual I have ever met (who claimed to be the owner of a 48 footer, which is more than twice as long as a 26'???), at CYC I received a very warm welcome. I joined CYC and again like Allan have no regrets.

I have to say though that I have since met many members of CBYC who are perfectly friendly, so I may have just met their club's resident idiot.
 
Actually, Huw, I think that might be right. Louise and I were at CBYC for a month whilst buying Ishtar and working on her in the compound there. I have to say that everyone was very friendly, and we spoke to a lot of people. From what I saw, I don't think it would have been a mistake to join there either, although we are very happy at CYC.
 
As I said all the other CBYC members I've met have been perfectly friendly, so I don't doubt I just asked the wrong person. My Uncle (who is very down to earth) is a member of CBYC's dinghy section which appears to be very friendly and very well run.
However I was also put off by the distance I would have had to walk to the boat if it were on a pontoon I could afford, and by the fact that the marina right next to them was cheaper.
 
If you want to join a club, then it's either CYC or CBYC. You really do have to go along and decide what's important to you. When we did this in 2004 there were various pros and cons at both. We decided on CBYC. Others choose CYC. You may be forced to one or the other by availability anyway.
 
Have just checked both websites and it is no longer the case but when I bought my boat (2006) I initially took it to cambrian (now cardiff) marina. The cost there was only £115 per metre per year (quite possibly as part of an offer, because its £205 now) but cbyc was £29 per foot plus £200 membership. Therefore for my 26' boat cambrian was cheaper and offered a shorter walk to the boat. I joined CYC as I wanted a club atmosphere and it was much cheaper.
 
there are still swinging moorings outside the clubhouse at cbyc but at the moment there is a waiting list for those. fore and aft moorings way up river are still available and at a cheaper rate than the swinging moorings but its a long way to row up to your boat, good if your on a tight budget though
 
i think whichever club you decide to join it would be good if the two cruising sections could get together now and then and have some joint cruising trips, we at cbyc had a great trip up to portishead last weekend with five boats attending and reading some of the posts from cyc members lately seems that these guys are having some fun trips lately would be good to all meet up through the summer the more boats the better seems most of the animosity or rivalry between the two clubs goes way back before most of us were involved in boating hopefully we can all move forward and just enjoy the sailing and socialising, lets just hope the weather is on our side this summer
 
I would be happy to arrange any combined cruising type section between both clubs and i'm sure Barebones will be up for it. For those that don't know there is the funsail website to inform of planned sailaways. Contact me via my web address below.
 
Sail Training charity looking for mooring and volunteers

we are looking for a "cheap" mooring for our 40' McArthur, currently moored in Bristol Harbourside. We are using our boat to do sail training to take young people on.

We are a not for profit organisation if anyone could offer any advice or would like to help us in our aims/objectives we would love to hear from you.

We will also be recruiting volunteer crew and qualified skippers to take our boat out so any contact from you guys would be very welcome and we also hope to take part in some races later this year

feel free to look us up at www.breakfreefoundation.org

Thanks

Karen
 
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