Visitor Moorings - around Arran

[castoffandgone]

Maybe just early enough to be asking this, but does anyone have up to date information on what might be available this coming summer?
Loch Ranza and Lamlash particularly.
Thanks

 

[Spyro]

Lochranza and Brodick have free visitor moorings laid each year by North Ayrshire council although the Lochranza and catacol sea society ask for a donation for using the ones in Lochranza. . Usually these are laid around the beginning of April. lamlash moorings are run by the the local club and and are not free. Last time I paid they were £10 a night. There is also a landing pontoon at lochranza but overnight stays are not permitted.
No other moorings that I know off on Arran.

 

[kyleview]

Lochranza and Brodick have free visitor moorings laid each year by North Ayrshire council although the Lochranza and catacol sea society ask for a donation for using the ones in Lochranza. . Usually these are laid around the beginning of April. lamlash moorings are run by the the local club and and are not free. Last time I paid they were £10 a night. There is also a landing pontoon at lochranza but overnight stays are not permitted.
No other moorings that I know off on Arran.

Sounds about right to me based on last year. Just wish Lamlash would put a web address on their buoys so you could pay over the internet with paypal, etc. I have suggested this to the boatman a few times, so far to no avail.

Arrive late, leave early, and there is no one to pay the £10 to unless you want to go ashore. That said the anchor is an alternative if you do not want to leave feeling guilty.

 

[awol]

If I don't want to go ashore then anchoring over in the karmic calm of Holy Isle is, in my opinion, much preferable and not subject to the uncomfortable slop of the Lamlash moorings.

 

[uxb]

Sounds about right to me based on last year. Just wish Lamlash would put a web address on their buoys so you could pay over the internet with paypal, etc. I have suggested this to the boatman a few times, so far to no avail.

Arrive late, leave early, and there is no one to pay the £10 to unless you want to go ashore. That said the anchor is an alternative if you do not want to leave feeling guilty.

The one and only time I anchored in Lamlash it blew a hoolie all night but we didn't drag an inch- when I eventually hauled the (Bruce) anchor to the surface in the morning I found I had hooked a fluke onto a 2" spliced wire loop - no idea what was on the other end, luckily we managed to prod it off with the boat hook and a lot of swearing...

 

[AntarcticPilot]

There is a mooring buoy off the Catacol hotel, according to last year's Welcome Anchorages.

Problem is that all of the moorings and anchorages on Arran have wind directions where they are uncomfortable or even untenable. Lamlash and Holy Island probably offer the best choices (I haven't been there yet) - but I like the comment in one of the pilots to the effect that the anchorage at Holy Island is best considered in the light of a naval fleet! Brodick is bad in an easterly; Loch Ranza in a NE or SW wind.

 

[Ludd]

The charge at Lochranza,as I understood it,was for using the pontoon to go ashore by dinghy or pick up/set ashore crew.

 

[Spyro]

The charge at Lochranza,as I understood it,was for using the pontoon to go ashore by dinghy or pick up/set ashore crew.

You're right but if you read the sign at the gate to the pontoon you will see they ask for a donation for upkeep of the moorings. Any money you do donate for the moorings goes in the same box as donations for use of the pontoon. Strange as the moorings are maintained by the council.