Moorings Near Manchester

[yachtorion]

Hello,

Does anyone know of any good moorings available on the coast near to Manchester please? Drying would be fine

PM's welcome if you want to keep the secret!

James

 

[AngusMcDoon]

This lot have some river moorings not too far from Manchester...

http://portsmouthyc.org/WP/

The other Manchester is drizzly and not near the sea.

Hello,

Does anyone know of any good moorings available on the coast near to Manchester please? Drying would be fine

PM's welcome if you want to keep the secret!

James

 

[AngusMcDoon]

...or for a sensible reply, this lot have some moorings and are probably the closest...

http://www.royalmersey.co.uk/

 

[obmij]

Closest viable moorings to Manchester are probably the River Alt @ Hightown.

Douglas boatyard has cheap pontoon berthing at Hesketh Bank.

Fleetwood Yacht Haven & Glasson dock are about an hour from Manc.

Wirral probably the same distance. You can drop a mooring in the Mersey or Dee for nowt. Plenty of sailing clubs to help out too. Wallasey YC, Tranmere SC and Royal Mersey - for the Mersey. WKSC Hoylake SC and Dee SC - for the Dee. I'm a Wirral man myself, but keep the boat in North Wales. Make of that what you will!

Conwy will double your journey time, but plenty of moorings

Approximately another 30 minutes and you're in the Menai Strait.

 

[TSB240]

Closest viable moorings to Manchester are probably the River Alt @ Hightown.

Douglas boatyard has cheap pontoon berthing at Hesketh Bank.

Fleetwood Yacht Haven & Glasson dock are about an hour from Manc.

Wirral probably the same distance. You can drop a mooring in the Mersey or Dee for nowt. Plenty of sailing clubs to help out too. Wallasey YC, Tranmere SC and Royal Mersey - for the Mersey. WKSC Hoylake SC and Dee SC - for the Dee. I'm a Wirral man myself, but keep the boat in North Wales. Make of that what you will!

Conwy will double your journey time, but plenty of moorings

Approximately another 30 minutes and you're in the Menai Strait.

Drove from Wilmslow to Port Dinorwic last Friday night....1hour 25 mins. Plenty of swinging moorings available from Caernarfon Harbour Trust or drying moorings available in river Seiont at Caernarfon

 

[C08]

Nearest you will get to Manchester are moorings at Jalsea Marine on the River Weaver near Northwich, about 25 miles from Manchester. Not for everybody but it is an interesting trip up the Mersey to Eastham where you lock into the Manchester Ship Canal, down the canal past Ellesmere Port to lock into the Weaver and down there to Northwich. Masts are ok as they swing the road bridges for you and operate the locks where there are not permanent lock keepers. You can also go up the Mersey as far as Fiddlers Ferry near Warrington where there are cheapish moorings on a section of redundant canal. Not a trip forn the faint hearted though as there is little water, very strong currents and the window to get up to Fiddlers is very tight. As other have said drying moorings at West Kirby will be the cheapest but I believe boats can have a hard time there.

 

[Richard10002]

Hello,

Does anyone know of any good moorings available on the coast near to Manchester please? Drying would be fine

PM's welcome if you want to keep the secret!

James

Why do you need one? Storage? Spending time on board without going anywhere often? Proper leisure useage? Etc.?

 

[NickRobinson]

Fleetwood good value- surroundings a bit grim(sby!) 3 hr access straight to sea.

Preston even better value and 3 summer months for 250 pounds- 12 miles from sea though-

Nick

 

[[3889]]

Fiddlers Ferry Yacht Haven nr Warrington is cheap but restricted access. Jalsea is cut off from the sea at the moment as the A56 swing bridge is u/s. It's also a lot of hassle using the ship canal when the bridge is on.

 

[Richard10002]

Why do you need one? Storage? Spending time on board without going anywhere often? Proper leisure useage? Etc.?

If you want a good sailing ground from Manchester, you can get boating quicker by driving from Manchester to Pwhlleli, or Abersoch, than you can at Northwich, Fleetwood, Liverpool, or Glasson.

You can get to your moored boat quicker if it's moored at Northwich, but you won't be coastal sailing very soon thereafter. Fleetwood might not be a bad compromise.

My boat is moored in Stretford, Manchester, about 10 minutes from home. But it would takes long time to get to the coast... Although I will be in the countryside in 90 minutes on Friday, and will be there for much of next week, and might commute to work the week after.

 

[raven]

Even closer than Pwhlleli or Abersoch is Porthmadog - lovely scenic little harbour and considerably less expensive.

AFAIK there are both wall moorings and trot moorings available.

 

[Richard10002]

Even closer than Pwhlleli or Abersoch is Porthmadog - lovely scenic little harbour and considerably less expensive.

AFAIK there are both wall moorings and trot moorings available.

I was thinking of an extreme of travelling time, but with the ability to hop on the boat and be sailing/motor boating in minutes, at most states of the tide.

I think the channel at Port Mad Dog is a bit restrictive, dependent on draft? But I don't know for sure.

It could be equally quick at Holyhead, Conwy?, others.

 

[raven]

I was thinking of an extreme of travelling time, but with the ability to hop on the boat and be sailing/motor boating in minutes, at most states of the tide.

I think the channel at Port Mad Dog is a bit restrictive, dependent on draft? But I don't know for sure.

It could be equally quick at Holyhead, Conwy?, others.

Yes, Porthmadog channel is passable +/- 3 hours High Water and then you can have issues getting on of your mooring depending on where it is in the harbour.

However, this minor inconvenience is more than made up for by the legendary warmth and friendliness of the members of MYC

 

[Searush]

I was thinking of an extreme of travelling time, but with the ability to hop on the boat and be sailing/motor boating in minutes, at most states of the tide.

I think the channel at Port Mad Dog is a bit restrictive, dependent on draft? But I don't know for sure.

It could be equally quick at Holyhead, Conwy?, others.

Conway river dries at low water most tides. Holyhead is all tide & so are many Menai moorings, but not any marinas or docks. Even so, unless in a fast mobo one is tide driven anywhere in that area.

 

[Mike k]

Nearest you will get to Manchester are moorings at Jalsea Marine on the River Weaver near Northwich, about 25 miles from Manchester. Not for everybody but it is an interesting trip up the Mersey to Eastham where you lock into the Manchester Ship Canal, down the canal past Ellesmere Port to lock into the Weaver and down there to Northwich. Masts are ok as they swing the road bridges for you and operate the locks where there are not permanent lock keepers. You can also go up the Mersey as far as Fiddlers Ferry near Warrington where there are cheapish moorings on a section of redundant canal. Not a trip forn the faint hearted though as there is little water, very strong currents and the window to get up to Fiddlers is very tight. As other have said drying moorings at West Kirby will be the cheapest but I believe boats can have a hard time there.

when I checked with Peel Ports the costs for getting into the Manchester ship canal was expensive for pleasure craft something like IIRC £250 plus need approvals etc- can you elaborate if you know something different because I have thought for a long time that a Marina in Salford Quays and access down the MSC would be a real winner for the area.

 

[Searush]

when I checked with Peel Ports the costs for getting into the Manchester ship canal was expensive for pleasure craft something like IIRC £250 plus need approvals etc- can you elaborate if you know something different because I have thought for a long time that a Marina in Salford Quays and access down the MSC would be a real winner for the area.

£196 end to end, each way, plus the boat has to be surveyed by an MSC approved surveyor, info from Peel Ports PDF, see link below.

http://peelports.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/MPF3-Induction_Pack_MSC.pdf

 

[[3889]]

plus the boat has to be surveyed by an MSC approved surveyor,

http://peelports.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/MPF3-Induction_Pack_MSC.pdf

That is a new restriction. I used to lift out at Northwich until 2005 and transited the canal to Marsh lock without a survey. The yard owner at Northwich was adamant that under the terms of the Manchester Ship Canal Act, vessels entering the Weaver could not be charged a transit fee as the canal had cut the river off from the sea. He didn't seem keen on financing the legal challenge, though.

Edit: Badly worded on page 1, but the survey can be done by either a BMF boat builder or non-MSC surveyor.
Certificate of seaworthiness (To be signed after completion)
a) By a Surveyor of shipping who is either a member or an associate member of the Institute of Naval
Architects or approved by the Manchester Ship Canal Company Ltd,
or,
b) By a Boat Builder who is either a member of the British Marine Federation or approved by the
Manchester Ship Canal Company Ltd.

IIRC, I self certified.

 

[Redspecial190]

This is the link to Preston Marina's cheap summer berthing deal although as a previous poster said, it is a fair trek to the sea.

http://www.prestonmarina.co.uk/core_pages/GuildDeal2.html

 

[geem]

Boats with 6 ft draft do go up to Fiddlers Ferry but this is normally a winter berthing facility not a summer mooring. The channel changes periodically so the harbourmaster plots the deep water every season via waypoints and issues them to boats making the transit.
we wintered there for several years with our shallow draft boat but now we have 2.2m draft it is no longer a safe option to make the trip. You need a minimum 30ft tide at Liverpool to give sufficient water for a 6ft draft boat. With 1m draft we have safely made the trip on a 28ft tide with no drama (and no waypoints to follow).