So...What IS the right amount to pay for an overnight mooring?

[Cobra]

Following on from the debate on the mooring fees being introduced at West Mersea, it was mooted that maybe it was time an opinion be expressed by way of a poll.

So, never put one together on here before, and if it doesn't work it wasn't my idea!

 

[Cobra]

Pick a poll...any poll!!

 

[Koeketiene]

Pick a poll...any poll!!

 

[Cobra]

Gets my vote!!!

 

[Wunja]

I've voted on both polls .
Does anyone want this Mars bar with a bite taken out of it?

 

[LONG_KEELER]

Well done lads !

Have voted in both.

 

[Mariner69]

Read both polls.

Not voted in both.

Is this first past the post or AV?

 

[Athene V30]

Is this first past the post or AV?

Regardless of method - £5 a night has > 50% of the vote currently.

But will anyone from the West Mersea Consortium see it and if they do take any notice?

 

[Saguday]

I really think the answer is a fiver...

 

[Cobra]

I really think the answer is a fiver...

I always thought that the answer was 42...

 

[Koeketiene]

I always thought that the answer was 42...

No, that's the meaning of life, and everything...

BTW: thanks for all the fish

 

[Slow_boat]

A fiver, no matter what size boat?

 

[Cobra]

A fiver, no matter what size boat?

Why not? What difference a 20 footer hanging off a mooring than a 30 footer? The moorings have all been spaced around a swinging circle of 'x', and as long as the boat would not exceed the maximum swing then why should there be a difference in cost?

 

[Cobra]

No, that's the meaning of life, and everything...

BTW: thanks for all the fish

eeek! eeek!

 

[Saguday]

Why not? What difference a 20 footer hanging off a mooring than a 30 footer? The moorings have all been spaced around a swinging circle of 'x', and as long as the boat would not exceed the maximum swing then why should there be a difference in cost?

I think when the wind blows in earnest a 40ft boat weighing 12 tons may require slightly heavier duty mooring tackle than a 20ft boat of 1.5 tons, notwithstanding the swinging circle issue.

There is likely to be a capital and maintenance cost difference between the two which would normally be reflected in the price of the mooring - as an owner of a 38ft 11 ton boat I naturally expect to pay more for a suitable mooring than someone with a more modest craft, and hopefully less than someone turning up with an 80ft Oyster, for example.

 

[Koeketiene]

Agreed, as long as visitors moorings are rated by tonnage. If they are not then a charge by boat length is just opportunistic pricing.

What I great principle - maybe we should push to have it applied to marinas.
You get charged by pontoon length and not boat length.

 

[Saguday]

What I great principle - maybe we should push to have it applied to marinas.
You get charged by pontoon length and not boat length.

This is exactly how it's done in the US

It's a much better system imho

 

[Koeketiene]

This is exactly how it's done in the US

It's a much better system imho

Well, that's definitely one thing we should import for the US.
Often had to squeeze in a tiny berth where the pontoon barely reached our midships cleat yet we were charged according to boat length.

 

[Saguday]

Agreed, as long as visitors moorings are rated by tonnage. If they are not then a charge by boat length is just opportunistic pricing.

The last time I enquired into long term mooring charges in West Mersea the important criteria was the weight of the boat, although I suspect there is an assumption about weight/length vs mooring capability in most calculations that would simplify charges down to <35ft and >35ft, or similar.

 

[AliM]

I think the reason they charge per person in Holland is that they have a tourist tax - so in any hotel, camp site, marina etc, you pay 1 or 2 euros per person per night in tax. At a very small boatyard in Holland, we were not charged it because the manager didn't approve of the tax! I believe they have a similar tax in Germany. I don't think it has anything to do with the facilities that the crew use.