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Re: Rhodes New Marina: update May 2016

Talking about where to eat ask at the reception how to get to "Maintanos kai kremmydi" ("parsley and onion" if I translate it). Grilled food, perfect!
 
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OldBawley said:
Read in a other forum that two boats sank. Heavy swell.
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As well as the link you posted, OB, there's certainly been reference to surge in the marina in other forums (and possibly even this thread). That was, if I remember correctly, in summer conditions with winds/seas from the east. I imagine that in winter storms the consequences would no doubt be more pronounced.
 
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My post 39 mentions waves coming over the wall and filling the harbour premises with a 3 feet stream of water. No panic, I saw that in the so called Lidl harbour. Not the new marina. Not sure if the new marina wall is higher as the Lidl wall.
Anyway, the SO can be nasty. Just look at the Turkish coast there. As far as I know all marinas have been constructed inside bays. And even the very well protected Yat marina inside the Marmaris bay is not safe for those SO storms. I have seen the sea passing over the wall / road on the So side. We ware anchoring North of the Marina and boy was I glad not to be inside. Only minor damage inside the marina.
 
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OldBawley said:
Read in a other forum that two boats sank. Heavy swell.
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That's quite correct, a Fountain Pajot Cumberland motor catamaran and a Beneteau sailing monohull. Both wre not attended to by their owners / crew and hit the quay with their sterns - the Beneteau was moored much too close from the start, the FP must have broken a mooring line as she was originally securely moored. There was further damage to some other boats.

With winds from the N to E swell is a problem in the marina. In my opinion the stub harbour wall needs lengthening.
 
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multihullsailor6 said:
That's quite correct, a Fountain Pajot Cumberland motor catamaran and a Beneteau sailing monohull. Both wre not attended to by their owners / crew and hit the quay with their sterns - the Beneteau was moored much too close from the start, the FP must have broken a mooring line as she was originally securely moored. There was further damage to some other boats.

With winds from the N to E swell is a problem in the marina. In my opinion the stub harbour wall needs lengthening.
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Did the marina staff deal with this well? Would you winter there again?
 
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The marina staff did a great job in sorting out the boats which needed attention. I was told today that starting tomorrow all boats will be moved further away from the quay - I'm not too sure at the moment of the details of their plan.

As to your second question: It's too early to say, I would like to postpone the answer until the end of the winter and experience the winter weather here - so far we've had no southerly storm which should hopefully be "bearable" without too much swell. Personally I prefer it here compared to Mandraki harbour.
 
Yes, but I've seen worse. Around the days when two boats sank, the MY looked like moving up/down some meters! For sure would I have sleepless nights, if my boat would stay there for longer times.
 
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Carmel2 said:
Would you winter there again?
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Rhodes New Marina

I’ve now spent the time from the beginning of October 2016 as a liveaboard in the Rhodes NEW Marina (RNM).

This was the second winter period for the RNM (in reality the first fully operational one), in the first year they had 5 boats over the winter period, this time around there were approx. 35-40 yachts staying for the winter of which 3 were with liveaboards . The marina office staff as well as the mooring / berthing staff are extremely friendly and helpful yet on a steep learning curve which they accomplished very well. I like the marina, its top-class facilities and its location - much prefer it to Mandraki harbour for a prolonged winter stay. The winter weather in Rhodes helps of course, Rhodes consistently being among the warmest place in Greece.

In my view the RNM is a safe place to leave your yacht unattended at any time.

As a current liveaboard at RNM the swell within the harbour however is an issue and makes life quite uncomfortable sometimes: when winds F4+ blow from the N to NE a swell enters the harbours and does need attention with more and longer mooring lines and mooring dampers. That said, in the approx. 155 days I’ve spent here so far “swell days” amounted to maybe 8 - 10 days with each “swell period" lasting approx. 24 - 36 hrs. . Winds from other directions (even storm winds from the South with 50 kts ) are not an issue.

The answer to the swell problem is a northern harbour wall which has already being planned for by Rhodes Marinas S.A. . I have been informed by the marina manager that land based work in the area where the northern harbour wall will jut out into the sea is to start in March 2017. Then in September 2017 work on building the harbour wall itself should be commencing.

Once this has been built and completed in my view the RNM should quickly turn into one of the excellent marinas in the Eastern Med and become a commercially successful operation and a place where you can securely and comfortably stay on your boat and enjoy the island for the winter period.

To clarify, I have no commercial interest in Rhodes Marinas S.A. except as a yachtsman and potential customer.
 
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Roger - thanks for that detailed posting. I take it that the marina has little in the way of technical services, though those are probably available locally anyway.

In terms of somewhere you can just leave your boat without worry, I would have thought that was a littel premature until the rest of the harbour wall is built. I would never leave my boat where there could be considerable surge and I was not there.
 
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