Sourhwold how busy?

[benw]

Have a couple of days free so thought of heading nth to Southwold. Not sure if any ECF boats are there currently, before heading off would be useful to know if it has been invaded?
Thanks.
Ben

 

[Javelin]

Quite busy this week with a fair number of Dutch and one or two Belgians.
Can always find a spot though as there are also a fair number of locals away on their travels.

Even failing that you can raft up on our pontoons at HMS.

 

[teredo]

And at £20 per night for a 9m boat - ie full service marina rates, with no showers outside office hours (Can you believe that???) and no water or electric if there is no room on the crowded 3 deep visitors moorings I call foul.
Stay away from the bloody place until they get the idea that ripoffs aren't good for business.
And that pub is in much the same mindset too pricewise.
Bloody shame, its such a sweet place.

 

[Sticky Fingers]

^I spy someone who hates Southwold. That's the second Southwold-related thread you've posted this attack... what's your point again?

 

[Otter]

Good grief if you think £20 is full service marina rates

It does slightly favour boats with their own loo and shower TBH but the harbour is great, the harbour cafe the best for many miles and £20 is a bargain. I paid £27 to be four deep at Weymouth and stayed a week. The HM's at Southwold are way more helpful. Better all that than £40 a night with uber ablutions and your own soulless corner of a corporate marina.

 

[Champagne Murphy]

And welcome to the ECF.:encouragement:

 

[sailorman]

Good grief if you think £20 is full service marina rates

It does slightly favour boats with their own loo and shower TBH but the harbour is great, the harbour cafe the best for many miles and £20 is a bargain. I paid £27 to be four deep at Weymouth and stayed a week. The HM's at Southwold are way more helpful. Better all that than £40 a night with uber ablutions and your own soulless corner of a corporate marina.

Bradwell is £20 for us & we have our own shower key too

 

[Bru]

Bradwell is £20 for us & we have our own shower key too

Only one?

 

[Cantata]

Amazing how long that lock cylinder has lasted.....

 

[Boz]

Only one?

Any advance on three? - Is our boat alone in swallowing things - never to be seen again until too late?

 

[nigelm]

If everyone took their keys back I one go the tower would collapse u der the weight of brass ........

Not to mention the deficit of £5's ( or whatever it is now )

 

[MoodySabre]

I was there for three days week before last. Plenty of room.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

As an ex East coaster Southwold the Deben and Ore summed up what sailing on the East coast was all about. If you want marinas, showers and shoreside facilities 24 hours a day you are sailing in the wrong place. Go South and West young man.

 

[Bru]

As an ex East coaster Southwold the Deben and Ore summed up what sailing on the East coast was all about. If you want marinas, showers and shoreside facilities 24 hours a day you are sailing in the wrong place. Go South and West young man.

+1

 

[Javelin]

To be honest I have some sympathy about the lack of value you get at Southwold.
However the rates are set by Waveney council who don't have the first idea about the harbour and as they're essentially broke and are after every penny they can muster.
What really grates is that 90% of the revenue raised doesn't stay in the harbour as it heads off to Lowestoft.
This in turn makes it virtually impossible to raise the standards of facilities by much without a huge struggle.
Hats off to Peter and Jerry, the HM's, for getting as much done as they have in the last three years as I know its been a struggle.

There has been a plan to move ownership of the Harbour to a trust and this has in principle been agreed but it's been dragging on for years with no real light at the end of the tunnel as yet.

You have to wonder at the financial model that seems to work so well in the Netherlands as in comparison our mooring fees are exorbitant.

 

[Gargleblaster]

You have to wonder at the financial model that seems to work so well in the Netherlands as in comparison our mooring fees are exorbitant.

And Germany is even cheaper than the Netherlands. I was paying only about 13 euros through most of Germany and that generally included a couple of euros visitors tax. In some case such as Helgoland that meant rafting up. But then to go and buy a litre of Bell's for 8 euros and buy diesel at 85 euro cents a litre takes away a lot of the pain of rafting. And the Germans seem to be very welcoming to foreigners who want to raft up next to them.

 

[Colin K]

I think it will that extra bit busier when Hamilton closes at the end of the year whether you think it expensive for what you get or not.
I recon the staff do a great job incidentally.