Who owns this yard in Shirehampton ?

[louisderry]

Hello all- Still searching for a commutable hard standing close to bristol. I came across this place on Google maps ghttps://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4831951,-2.6780709,663a,20y,296.41h,44.82t/data=!3m1!1e3
Does anyone know if this is a yard? if so who owns it, its in shirehampton on the side of the Avon.

Thanks in advance !

 

[MoodySabre]

If you pan out a bit you can see that it is very near the Lamplighters pub/restaurant. Give them a ring - they might know http://thelamplighters.co.uk/contact-us/

Also, next to the pub (don't you love street view ) is T S Enterprise so they might be worth a call. http://nsod.n-somerset.gov.uk/kb5/northsomerset/directory/service.page?id=Dm_pe_-b2wQ

Shirehampton Sailing Club might know http://www.shirehamptonsailingclub.co.uk/contactus.php

 

[louisderry]

If you pan ouit a bit you can see that it is very near the Lamplighters pub/restaurant. Give them a ring - they might know http://thelamplighters.co.uk/contact-us/

Good shout- They're not open yet but i'll give them a call later if nobody knows.

 

[MoodySabre]

Good shout- They're not open yet but i'll give them a call later if nobody knows.

See my edited post with more links.

 

[louisderry]

See my edited post with more links.

I think you've hit it there- it's got to be something to do with the sailing club. :encouragement:

 

[louisderry]

See my edited post with more links.

 

[MoodySabre]

You can tell I've got time to kill this morning.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/velo_denz/5042128244

 

[louisderry]

You can tell I've got time to kill this morning.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/velo_denz/5042128244

Same here - I'm really wanting to get on to the next project to be honest. so bleddy bored.

 

[louisderry]

You can tell I've got time to kill this morning.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/velo_denz/5042128244

Now I'm confused - I managed to get hold of someone who runs the club there- they said it's just for dinghy sailing and there isn't any places for yachts. But from those photos and arial views it looks like a boat yard to me.

 

[steveej]

I passed this yard on the way up from Cardiff to Bristol earlier in the summer. It had probably a dozen or so large boats sitting in the mud, and other goings on the hard behind the shrubbery, certainly not dinghy's. Some of it looked like a boat grave yard, but there were definitely signs of life there.

 

[Allan]

Now I'm confused - I managed to get hold of someone who runs the club there- they said it's just for dinghy sailing and there isn't any places for yachts. But from those photos and arial views it looks like a boat yard to me.

My guess would be that you were talking to someone from the club opposite PCC. That is a few hundred metres upstream from the place you first mentioned. Sorry I can't help with details of the area, I only know it from the river. You try someone from PCC (Portishead Cruising Club)
Allan

 

[louisderry]

Case closed- after cycling there for an hour getting lost down some pretty crappy paths I arrived to a locked gate. Gave the guy a ring but unfortunately they are at full capacity already. Very intertestinng guy though gave me a tour of the boat yard and all of the horror story boat projects that have been abondoned over the years

 

[waynes world]

I also recognise it as having large boats as i used to drive down to Pill early moorings and wonder around Pill moorings.

 

[waynes world]

Case closed- after cycling there for an hour getting lost down some pretty crappy paths I arrived to a locked gate. Gave the guy a ring but unfortunately they are at full capacity already. Very intertestinng guy though gave me a tour of the boat yard and all of the horror story boat projects that have been abondoned over the years

Come tell more, i like the sounds of projects

 

[bitbaltic]

Case closed- after cycling there for an hour getting lost down some pretty crappy paths I arrived to a locked gate. Gave the guy a ring but unfortunately they are at full capacity already. Very intertestinng guy though gave me a tour of the boat yard and all of the horror story boat projects that have been abondoned over the years

Slightly surprised they can't do something for a paying customer if they're full of abandoned (non-paying?) 'projects'

 

[louisderry]

Come tell more, i like the sounds of projects

Every time I look at a boat now I see the 500 odd images flash by of your renovation haha . There was 1 or two that where really gone. A Plywood boat that really was at the end of its life and a Norman cruiser 25 that was fairly battered.

 

[louisderry]

A few of them are abandoned but the mooring fees still paid which makes it awkward for them by the sounds of it.

 

[waynes world]

Every time I look at a boat now I see the 500 odd images flash by of your renovation haha . There was 1 or two that where really gone. A Plywood boat that really was at the end of its life and a Norman cruiser 25 that was fairly battered.

Sounds like me and my darn dreams, boats just flashing by, i fell in last night then woke up lol.

A few of them are abandoned but the mooring fees still paid which makes it awkward for them by the sounds of it.

I find them the best at times, if owner details can be sought, or even the yard owner is willing to ask theymay well sell. i have had a few real bargains like that.

There was a few boats that had been sat in the yard for between 10 and fifteen years and no touched at all, but fee`s still paid. I got tone that had been sat for near 20 years and i asked, well meitherd for it and they sold it me.

Sad waist of god boats.