Weymouth harbour taking the P***

[Bristolfashion]

Here's the standard yachtie cost analysis,

1. Divide the current requested price for something by the cheapest they've ever got it anywhere / at any time. Ignore the fact that they used to have a 26' boat and now have a 44' yacht - and it's 2024, not 1966 - and they're in a swanky marina on the south coast, not a harbour wall in the Outer Hebrides.

2. Look at result

3. Explode with fury

 

[PWLS08]

I was a little perturbed, not really surprised as all yacht owners are millionaires and to be exploited, to be asked for £7/ night for electricity!! £2550/ year, more than twice what I pay for dual fuel at home!! That was on top of £4/ metre. I didn't bother with electric.

Well don't go there then, I don't suppose you'll be missed, unless of course they have their calculations wrong and you are one of many, but somehow I doubt that.

 

[winch2]

Bit of perspective. Half portion of chips and a small Cod on the way home the other night from Jimmy Squidos in the High Street....... 10 quid? About three mouthfuls. Everythings going up, so yes as mentioned above most of these figures are about right. I wouldn't bat either eyelid if my 8mtr cost £35 anywhere.

 

[ashtead]

You should have gone to Gosport -loads of chippies

 

[oldmanofthehills]

England is screwed by land prices and such, and having way too many people for the land area

Sail in Scotland, Brittany. Even W Cornwall cheaper

 

[steve yates]

I dont understand why folk are trying to compare the cost of mooring overnight at a pontoon with the cost of a hotel? It’s neither relevant nor comparable.
I would rate £40 a night for a 32ft boat expensive.

 

[Sandy]

I dont understand why folk are trying to compare the cost of mooring overnight at a pontoon with the cost of a hotel? It’s neither relevant nor comparable.
I would rate £40 a night for a 32ft boat expensive.

Perhaps a caravan pitch might be a better comparison.

 

[Boathook]

I dont understand why folk are trying to compare the cost of mooring overnight at a pontoon with the cost of a hotel? It’s neither relevant nor comparable.
I would rate £40 a night for a 32ft boat expensive.

£40 per night seems about the going rate around the Solent. Even picking up a mooring buoy in Newtown is over £20 per night and no facilities.

 

[Momac]

My daughter has a caravan (+husband and 4 children and a dog)
They usually pay more per night than boat mooring fee but they do get evening entertainment
To keep the caravan all year at a nice site would be £3k.
Daughter works it out per person so that makes it cheap. They are maxing out on utilisation of the caravan.

Caravanning isn't a cheap hobby but it can be good value.
Other activities like holidays in nice b&b's or holidays abroad make boating look good value .

From a boating perspective.......

We chartered a boat in Greece with another couple. Immediately the charter cost is halved for each couple.

If you turn up at a marina in a say 35ft boat single handed the mooring cost looks high . But if there are two people on board the cost is immediately halved per person. So its possibly under occupied boats that make mooring fees look expensive.

 

[xcw]

£40 per night seems about the going rate around the Solent. Even picking up a mooring buoy in Newtown is over £20 per night and no facilities.

I paid £29 at Newtown last Saturday

 

[Boathook]

I paid £29 at Newtown last Saturday

That's why I anchor there and I only guessed the price !

For another £10 I could be at Lymington town quay mid week with facilities.

 

[oldgit]

My daughter has a caravan (+husband and 4 children and a dog)
They usually pay more per night than boat mooring fee but they do get evening entertainment
To keep the caravan all year at a nice site would be £3k.
Daughter works it out per person so that makes it cheap. They are maxing out on utilisation of the caravan.

Caravanning isn't a cheap hobby but it can be good value.
Other activities like holidays in nice b&b's or holidays abroad make boating look good value .

From a boating perspective.......

We chartered a boat in Greece with another couple. Immediately the charter cost is halved for each couple.

If you turn up at a marina in a say 35ft boat single handed the mooring cost looks high . But if there are two people on board the cost is immediately halved per person. So its possibly under occupied boats that make mooring fees look expensive.

Being a Moboer, it is not uncommon for the boat to have more than one lonely soul aboard, moboing being less of a test of endurance, more a method of actually enjoying being out on the water with friends and/or family.

Any yacht currently tacking across the bow of any Mobo, will rarely have more than two people huddled aboard, if it has any more it is almost certainly a sea school boat attempting to pick a fender thrown in the water.
Even the impressive fees charged by St Kats become nearly acceptable when divided between all those on board.
Might one suggest that aquiring a few friends would be a good idea for the yachting fraternity ?

 

[lustyd]

Might one suggest that aquiring a few friends would be a good idea for the yachting fraternity ?

Nope. Don't have friends, don't need friends, don't want friends

 

[Bristolfashion]

Being a Moboer, it is not uncommon for the boat to have more than one lonely soul aboard, moboing being less of a test of endurance, more a method of actually enjoying being out on the water with friends and/or family.

Any yacht currently tacking across the bow of any Mobo, will rarely have more than two people huddled aboard, if it has any more it is almost certainly a sea school boat attempting to pick a fender thrown in the water.
Even the impressive fees charged by St Kats become nearly acceptable when divided between all those on board.
Might one suggest that aquiring a few friends would be a good idea for the yachting fraternity ?

Although after paying for all that diesel .....!