Where have all the mobos gone?

[peterandjeanette]

You've just highlighted an item I hadn't thought of.

Instead of rushing over to CI/Brittany and back two or three times a year, when we retire we only need to go once, then stay there for longer. No need to dash back to go to work on a Monday morning.

Result - thanks.

 

[nicho]

No need to dash back to go to work on a Monday morning.

Result - thanks.

My pleasure!! It does help if you can spread the cost of fuel over three weeks - makes a week in a good hotel seem expensive. Now, just make sure you retire soon!!

 

[hlb]

Theres a point seems to have been missed. There is little choice in paying marina or mending costs. However there is a choice of. Do I really want to go a hundred miles to that same old place again, with a £1000 fuel cost and mooring on top. Yes it was nice. We used to do six hundred miles a trip, bet we would have thought twice at £3000 in fuel costs, plus the £25/£40 berth costs per night.

 

[peterandjeanette]

SWMBO has always adopted the ethos that mussels, chips and a bottle of wine in a French cafe is always more preferable to fish, chips and half a lager in a Ramsgate pub.
(No offence to Ramsgate )
I have to agree with her. So I let her buy the fuel and I buy the meal.

 

[Andrew_Fanner]

SWMBO has always adopted the ethos that mussels, chips and a bottle of wine in a French cafe is always more preferable to fish, chips and half a lager in a Ramsgate pub.
(No offence to Ramsgate )
I have to agree with her. So I let her buy the fuel and I buy the meal.

What about the Belgian bar in Ramsgate?

For me its mostly the cost of fuel. Mooring fees, haulouts etc are all at club levels, but fuel is 20ppl more than it was 18 months ago. Becomes relevant if we go past London and open up to get anywhere. Doubly so as my son is about to start college and that will doubtless hit my skinny little wallet as well.

 

[nicho]

I have to agree with her. So I let her buy the fuel and I buy the meal.

Why didn't I think of that?!

 

[crazy4557]

Does the cost of fuel REALLY make much of a difference?? It is, for most marina based mobo owners a fairly small percentage of annual costs.

Lets take a boat like ours, 14.8 metres in a Hamble Marina, approx annual figures:

Berthing fees £8600
Insurance £780
Service engines £1200
Antifoul/anodes £800
Lift/block/relaunch £750
Other marina/harbour dues £1250 (30 nights @£45)

Total £12580

Fuel.

Say annual average usage of 2500 litres at an old price of 45p per litre = £1125, (can barely remember that!)

Average 90p per litre today = £2250. Therefore an increase of £1125 over a season.

So, the increase in fuel duty has added a fraction over 10% to the average annual running costs of an average 50' motorboat.

Does the panel think that would keep everyone in harbour? Personally I doubt it

Get yourself up to Ocean Village who will charge at least £1000.00 less to berth your boat and suddenly fuel cost increase vanishes. Easiest place on the mid Solent area to get into and out of all IMHO of course!!
Just a thought...........