Visitors short term moorings at Bowling Basin?

[Cappen Boidseye]

Simple question, are there any? looking on line I could not find out, it would be handy if I could moor my boat up there for a night or two once in a while so that I could visit "the big smoke" and not need to stay sober enough to drive my car home!

 

[Gordonmc]

Not unless you lock through which will cost.
There are no pontoons in the approaches and no-where to park in the old shipbreakers yard.

 

[Cappen Boidseye]

Oh well, are there any short term berths further up the Clyde?

 

[theforeman]

there are pontoons at braehead shopping centre, clydebank college and the marriot ? hotel ( by the secc, finnieston ). you need to get the bridge open for the latter, if a sail boat.

 

[SHUG]

You can go into Sandpoint Marina at Dumbarton and get the train up to Glasgow, Queen's Street. With mast down you cann go quite far upriver ----I've been told.

 

[theforeman]

the bold clyde wanderer has recently ventured as far up as the weir at glasgow green i believe ( and lived to tell the tale )

 

[ctva]

Your best bet is Rhu Marina and as has been said get a train into town. Sandpoint whilst really friendly like Bowling, is expensive and not suitable to a fin keel due to depth (or lack of it), we take our boat out there in the winter. Bowling charges about £30 for 1 night....yikes!

There are a couple of basins (http://www.clydeboatyard.co.uk/) further up river that do winter storage and they might have short term berths availabe this time of year, but watch out for security.

 

[Cappen Boidseye]

Once I am in the water I might just take a trip up the Clyde towards Braehead and do some scouting, I know there is a boatyard near Clydebank, I have seen it when visiting my favourite burger van, it is opposite a large scrap fondling yard where they load freighters with metal scrap.
Rhu marina is out, purely because my boat will be moored directly opposite it, I am looking for options which don't mean trying to make the last train home from Glasgow, although parking the boat at Rhu would save the expensive trip from Helensburgh to Cove in a late night taxi, hmm ha, hmm, ha, I have pondered on doing just that a few times.

 

[theforeman]

google " glasgow pontoons - booking "

 

[Ubergeekian]

Does the Royal Gourock YC have any visitor's moorings?

 

[awol]

Does the Royal Gourock YC have any visitor's moorings?

I believe so. But if the OP wants a night of bacchanalian excess in Glasgow without the complication of returning to Cove via train and taxi I think he would have a better economical out-turn by taking an hotel room and then returning home the next day via Gourock and Kilcreggan. I have spent a night in Bowling basin and failed to find any enervating night-life in the local hostelries.

Clydeports produce a handy leaflet which details all the stopping points.