When was the last time a new marina was opened on the East Coast?

[Tomahawk]

Going round the coast I can think of :-

Eastbourne (nearly E Coast) early 1990's
Dover 24Hr mid 90's
Ramsgate outer harbour 1998
Fambridge, originally West Wick from the mid whenever last century
Burnham 1990 ?
Bradwell when god was still a baby (actually the first purpose built marina in the UK?
Maylandsea.. ditto
Heybridge Basin some time in the 70's
Brightlingsea river piles some time on the late 60's ?
Titchmarsh (when no idea)
Shotley (when no idea)
RHYC and Wolverstone (I remember them in the 70's)
Foxes (no idea)
Ipswich Haven and Neptune (mid 90's??)
Levington (started in the 60's and expanded)
Woodbridge ??
Lowestoft RNSYC ?
Lowestoft Haven ??
Grimsby ??
Hull ??

 

[ex-Gladys]

Burnham was in the 70's...

 

[Momac]

Hull marina first opened in 1983 according to the internet.
Seems like it was at first the railway dock area so has expanded.
There are ambitious plans to create a lagoon at Hull
https://www.lagoonhull.co.uk/


Grimsby HCA I don't know - its not ancient. The old docks could be a fantastic development but can't see that happening. Development would put the rent up for the HCA.

 

[hinch]

Grimsby is based in the old fish docks so probably sometime in the 90's i'd guess. Grimsby would be a great marina if it wasn't so damn expensive and your typical club owned marina (have to be voted in by the committee)

 

[Pye_End]

Chatham relatively recent.

 

[Concerto]

Gillingham was in the 1980's and Hoo Marina a little earlier.

There are plans for the eastern basin of the old Chatham dockyard, which is due to close in a few years and the surrounding land to be made into housing. There is talk the basin will become another marina.

There was talk of a marina at Sheerness just east of Garrison Point, but this would be a non starter as the initial plans left it exposed to the NE.

 

[Leighb]

RHYC marina was new in 1999, Woolverstone in the 70s I think, was certainly there by 1980.

The marina at Brightlingsea, as distinct from the long pontoon mooring, is quite recent, around 2015?

 

[Seashoreman]

There were ambitious plans to build a marina at Slaughden, Aldeburgh in the late 1980's.
There were plans drawn but I imagine the costs were prohibitive.
The thinking was to use the land moving equipment which was needed for Sizewell B development.

 

[debenriver]

We built Tide Mill Yacht Harbour in Woodbridge in 1963, opened in 1964 with 200 berths. Cheers -- George

 

[madabouttheboat]

Don't worry. There will soon be an all tides marina at Southend. It can't be long now, they have been building it (or at least talking about it) since the 1980's

Is Chatham relatively new?

 

[BabySharkDooDooDooDooDoo]

Burnham was in the 70's...

Essex marina perhaps but not the yacht harbour

 

[Stork_III]

RHYC marina was new in 1999, Woolverstone in the 70s I think, was certainly there by 1980.

The marina at Brightlingsea, as distinct from the long pontoon mooring, is quite recent, around 2015?

Construction started in 2005, certainly in operation around 2010, maybe earlier.

 

[Megs20Burt!]

Grimsby is based in the old fish docks so probably sometime in the 90's i'd guess. Grimsby would be a great marina if it wasn't so damn expensive and your typical club owned marina (have to be voted in by the committee)

Yeah that marina is a bit like golf, that’s why I gave it up, can’t be doing with all the idiots and their reserved parking spaces...?

 

[Plum]

Going round the coast I can think of :-

Eastbourne (nearly E Coast) early 1990's
Dover 24Hr mid 90's
Ramsgate outer harbour 1998
Fambridge, originally West Wick from the mid whenever last century
Burnham 1990 ?
Bradwell when god was still a baby (actually the first purpose built marina in the UK?
Maylandsea.. ditto
Heybridge Basin some time in the 70's
Brightlingsea river piles some time on the late 60's ?
Titchmarsh (when no idea)
Shotley (when no idea)
RHYC and Wolverstone (I remember them in the 70's)
Foxes (no idea)
Ipswich Haven and Neptune (mid 90's??)
Levington (started in the 60's and expanded)
Woodbridge ??
Lowestoft RNSYC ?
Lowestoft Haven ??
Grimsby ??
Hull ??

I think Shotley was 1993.

www.solocoastalsailing.co.uk

 

[Leighb]

Construction started in 2005, certainly in operation around 2010, maybe earlier.

Thanks, I knew it was not that long ago, but only used it rather than the pontoon last year.

 

[pvb]

I think Shotley was 1993.

Much earlier, it was started in 1986 I believe.

 

[Daydream believer]

Burnham was in the 70's...

When i sold my stella in 78 there was no sign of it and tucker brown was being sold a little while after so i would have thought more like the 80s

 

[Stork_III]

When i sold my stella in 78 there was no sign of it and tucker brown was being sold a little while after so i would have thought more like the 80s

1989

 

[Dee Bee]

Titchmarsh?

 

[Stork_III]

Titchmarsh?

1971