Strangford Lough

[skipper681]

It's about 40 miles from me but I've come across an advert for a privately owned mooring, (does that mean freehold?) I rang up and the advertiser who said he bought a boat and mooring together and he dosen't need it.

I've always been at a harbour or marina and to purchase an anchorage for a couple of hundred quid that would be for life seems a bit too good to be true, so I need to ask a couple of questions...

1st, is it free to plop your boat in there anywhere?
2nd, if so am I just buying an anchor and chain for that price.

oh and 3rd, anyone here got a boat on Strangford?

Thanks

 

[JumbleDuck]

It's about 40 miles from me but I've come across an advert for a privately owned mooring, (does that mean freehold?) I rang up and the advertiser who said he bought a boat and mooring together and he dosen't need it.

I've always been at a harbour or marina and to purchase an anchorage for a couple of hundred quid that would be for life seems a bit too good to be true, so I need to ask a couple of questions...

1st, is it free to plop your boat in there anywhere?
2nd, if so am I just buying an anchor and chain for that price.

oh and 3rd, anyone here got a boat on Strangford?

Thanks

Generally you are buying the anchor, chain and other tackle on the understanding that you'll also get to keep the mooring spot. Whether you really can depends on how it's administered. I'm a member of a moorings association on the Clyde which oversees the allocation of moorings in the bay on behalf of the Crown Estates. You have to ask the mooring assiciation if you can transfer mooring ... I think they would generally say yes unless they thought you were trying to get more than one for commercial operation.

So ... yes, the price is plausible, but ask the seller how he pays his CEC fees and check with whoever takes his money that they are happy for you to take over the spot.

Good luck.

 

[Spirit of Glenans]

The writ of the Crown Estates does not run to Northern Ireland. Due to still-unresolved omissions in the wording of the Government of Ireland Act, 1920, the Republic maintains technical jurisdiction of all of the Territorial Waters of NI right up to the Low Water Mark.
Shared bodies of water such as Lough Foyle and Carlingford Lough are administered by cross-border agencies, under the Anglo Irish Agreement, but moorings in waters elsewhere in NI may well be administered by the Local Authorities, similar to the practice in the Republic. An enquiry to Ards, or Down, County Council might elicit some relevant information.

P.S. Ha!, Freudian typo; I originally mis-typed "Local Authority" as "Loyal Authority"