Good advice above. The last time I visited I just asked someone on their mooring which of the Association buoys were available. It is not obvious which buoys belong to the Association and which to the boatyard. If you go ashore the boatyard will charge if you use one of their buoys and if you are on an Association buoy they will charge you for landing! They were not friendly and obviously did not want visitors. I've stopped visiting until I hear the situation has improved.
Just upstream of the yard there's a short stretch of shoreline managed by the RSA, as described in the latest ECP, including a short jetty and the RSA are happy for you to land there.
I have to say I had a similar experience on my last visit 3 years ago. The yard people were hostile and the pub not much better. A RSA member on a mooring was very helpful though. There was a landing pontoon installed in Pagesham Pool to by-pass the yard, is that still there?
Still there last year - not a pontoon, I don't think, more of a wooden walkway across the mud.
I believe that the seawall in both directions and the lane that leads from the seawall up to the Plough & Sail and East End Paglesham are marked on OS maps as Footpaths. No one can stop you using a public right of way, therefore I believe you would have every right to walk up to the pub along the lane, which passes through the yard and ends at the seawall.
This walkway (where the pin is)?
Out of curiosity, what causes the rectangular patterns in the saltings?
Thanks. A quick search online (I'd never heard of them) suggests that they could be of some antiquity.