Why is "med mooring" only in the med?

[wipe_out]

Probably need to explain my question a bit more..

I guess the other way to ask it is why don't marina's use the med mooring strategy in the UK? Is it less space efficient than the finger berths we are used to in the UK?

 

[vas]

cannot possibly answer the first part, but the second I'm pretty sure you can cram more boats Med mooring style than with finger pontoons, MANY more.
I guess one can pick up the opportunity and do it, charge 20% less mooring fees and get an extra 10% profit

cheers

V.

PS. not following the UK weather, shall I assume it's not a good start of the summer season by the number of Med related threads over the last couple of weeks?

 

[wipe_out]

PS. not following the UK weather, shall I assume it's not a good start of the summer season by the number of Med related threads over the last couple of weeks?

Think Summer might have been today..

Seems odd that if ups can get more boats into less space med style why nobody does it here..

 

[itspaul]

In the med we don't have tides to worry about it. Bow lines tied to the seabed in the uk would only work in non tidal marinas

 

[PowerYachtBlog]

The main reason is tide. Since the med has little tide (not more then one meter), one can put the lines coming to the boat, and securing it from the seabed.

That is why finger style mooring is used in the UK since the boat will always be secured with the floating peer which is not much subjective to tide.

 

[wipe_out]

Ahhh.. Ok.. That makes sense.. Didn't realise the med had such a small tidal range..

 

[sailorman]

In the med we don't have tides to worry about it. Bow lines tied to the seabed in the uk would only work in non tidal marinas

Oostende RNSYC seem to manage Med style

 

[jfm]

Tides. Med tidal range is about a foot. The ground lines attached to the bow therefore hold the boat so the stern is always a fixed distance from the quayside.

 

[nigelmercier]

You can cram in more boats, but only because of the very low sea-level variations. Do it somewhere with a 2m range and watch the carnage.

 

[scubaman]

Typical mooring arrangement here is a long pontoon with buoys on either side. Those buoys do the job the lazy lines whereby one is picked up upon 'going in' and either bow or stern is then tied to the pontoon. One pragmatic reason favoring this arrangement is also cost as it's cheaper to lay out buoys than install finger pontoons.

 

[jfm]

@sailorman, thanks for oostend pic. Sorry if I'm being thick but I couldn't quite figure out the system there. The wooden pontoon parallel to the quayside goes up and down about 2m perhaps, on piles. All normal. The boats seem to be held off the wooden pontoon by a line from a buoy. So what stops the boats clunking the pontoon when the tide falls and a strong wind pushes them towards the pontoon?