Rip off Burnham

[xyachtdave]

I would expect to pay double if I was occupying two finger berths. Except we were on the end of F pontoon where there is not enough room to raft up two monohuls. So that does not apply. And we would only visit if there is such a berth available.

Understood, if you're accommodated on a hammerhead or similar there's not a lot of logic to charging double per boat length.

Burnham tends to be a miserable slog from the Medway in a deep draft boat, straight to Blackwater or Orwell is my preference.

I don't dislike Burnham at all, in fact I think its a great town/river, it's just looking at the same buoys and rusty posts for hours from both sides of the Maplin Sands in one day a bit much!

 

[PaulRainbow]

Should visitors not pay part of the facility cost?

Interesting question, i'm not sure that they should. When you visit a yacht club you don't have to pay 1/365th of a years membership to have a pint

At Shotley I think the price is in part to pay for the plug in leads that don't get returned.

Shotley charge the same £3 as Burnham, both owned by the same people. Not sure that they do lose the plug in leads, the lock keepers usually collect them as the boats leave.

I do think £3 is a bit steep, but wouldn't lose any sleep over it if i was visiting for a night or two. Althouh i don't use shore power when i visit anyway, due to the solar panels.

 

[Lucky Duck]

Understood, if you're accommodated on a hammerhead or similar there's not a lot of logic to charging double per boat length.

Burnham tends to be a miserable slog from the Medway in a deep draft boat, straight to Blackwater or Orwell is my preference.

I don't dislike Burnham at all, in fact I think its a great town/river, it's just looking at the same buoys and rusty posts for hours from both sides of the Maplin Sands in one day a bit much!

As far as I can tell nobody has been charged double so IMHO talking about when one might be prepared to pay double is misleading.

I have generally only done the Medway to the Crouch when there want enough ebb left to continue up the Wallet or cross the Spitway

 

[PaulRainbow]

12m long.
Charged £3.75/m

Not going back.

That's a bit less than 150%, not double.

 

[Dan Tribe]

There's plenty of room to anchor nowadays if you don't mind a bit of dinghy work. We had to use the dinghy before the marina was built, but there was no room to anchor then.
Getting ashore legitimately is more of a problem, very limited public access to the water in Burnham.

 

[Tomahawk]

Dingies and a good meal out with a beer or two are not always best companions on a fast flowing river.

 

[biffandkatie]

"Shotley charge the same £3 as Burnham, both owned by the same people."

£2.80pn

 

[stuey_two]

Dingies and a good meal out with a beer or two are not always best companions on a fast flowing river.

Your "good meal out with a beer or two" will have inflated more over the last 10 years than has the Burnham mooring fee. why not whinge about that?
No, better idea - anchor off Burnham, go ashore, have your meal, drink lots of beer ( after you get back to your boat) and with any luck you won't subject us to your unreasonable complaints afterwards