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£12.50 for a lunch stop on a buoy. I know you can anchor but that’s pretty steep imho. Got to watch a lovely junk sailing up and down and the Border Force vessel practicing mob drill on another buoy so some compensation
 
It's notmy area, so I've only been there once or twice. When I last went I think it was a £5 'voluntary' contribution to the National Trust (which dates me). I suppose that they can charge whatever the Solent pluto-sailors will stand.

Our stay was enlivened by the sight of an osprey, and also the pleasure of watching an elderly lady in a dinghy being towed home after a capsize, by the warden's boat and saying to us as she passed, in a very refined voice, "I always do this on Sundays".
 
One of the great things about a shallow draft bilge keeler is the ability to tuck into corners other boats can't reach. It's been a few years since we were there because of moving and illness, but I'm looking forward to going back.

Out of interest, was that charge a flat rate or £x per metre?
 
Flat rate, I believe.

Charging per metre on a mooring doesn’t seem right - you still take up the same number of buoys however big or small your boat.

Different classes of mooring (closer together, or in shallower water), fine.

Pete
 
prv said:
Flat rate, I believe.

Charging per metre on a mooring doesn’t seem right - you still take up the same number of buoys however big or small your boat.

Different classes of mooring (closer together, or in shallower water), fine.

Pete
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Impeccable logic. But don’t Yarmouth charge by the meter, although they do have labelled rows of differently spaced trots vaguely hoping that boats moor up in the correct section, which they mostly do?
 
Isn't it the weight of the boat which matters, on a mooring buoy? Maybe windage, draught? These are the things which could overload the mooring surely, not length?
Eg a 12m long boat could be an ultra light, streamlined plastic racer, but also a 20 ton lugger..
 
It is a flat rate, but per 12m. So if your boat is over 12m, you have to buy 2 tickets, at a total of £25!

Use the heavy thing at the pointy end. That's what it's there for.
 
ip485 said:
Isnt it still "free" for a NT member?
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I don't think it ever has been. Certainly isn't now. We usually pay a fiver each time we anchor overnight. We anchor many times per season. Warden seems just as happy with our fiver as with whatever he gets from everyone else.
We are lifetime NT members although I doubt the warden knows that.
 
I ask because although it was quite a few years ago, the warden actually volunteered that as a member it was free. Usually entry to NT is, and I guess in a sense this falls under that category. It isnt mentioned so far as I can see on the web site, but then not much is said about the fee structure.
 
If anchored, I usually explain to the warden that, as an NT member, I have already been generous enough to pay a moderately generous sum in the general direction of the NT, and he seems happy with that.
If moored, I just pay up.
But I can't help thinking that, as an NT member, I can use NT car parks and walk into NT properties, and use facilities therein, without paying anything additional. So why should a harbour be any different? I know NT needs the money, but …
 
I inherited my great-aunt’s flag bag, probably last used by her in the early 80s if not before. In the letter that came with it, she mentioned in passing that the National Trust flag was to indicate her entitlement, as a member, to free mooring in Newtown Creek.

So it was a thing 40 years ago, at least ;)

Pete
 
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