ylop
Well-known member
Ok it looks like we might be about to switch from marina storage to mooring. What are we likely to have not thought about?
- there's a pontoon with sufficient depth for loading crew or suppplies, it has water and waste collection.
- the pontoon has space for dinghies - i'm thinking we probably need to upgrade the dinghy, is there a sensible self draining option? (it could be 2-3 weeks between use)
- would we be better getting a bigger (hard?) dinghy that can squeeze 4 people and leave that on the mooring and retain small "2.5 person" inflatabe for anchorages etc
- would you add two pennants so they work like a bridle, and redundancy?
- will probably add "small" solar panel as no shore power
- the bilge pump is not automatic (the boat doesn't leak); will that leave me paranoid and wishing I had an auto one?
- will likely add some sort of monitoring - but we will be >2hr drive away so not going to be that helpful!
- do the downsides of using a mooring offset against the faff of fenders and setting up springs etc - feels like the ready to sail and ready to go home time will be similar in each case?