Why No Replies To Mooring Swap

[robyonfrome]

Surprised not to get any replies to my mooring swap offer a few days ago, I thought it would be a good idea for a change of scenery. Once the boat is here at Wareham you could have caught the train back to Lymington and used it as a holiday cottage coming back and forth in the car and playing in the harbour and Studland beach. Yes probably your not supposed to do this due to mooring regs but who would know just for a month or so.

 

[Wiggo]

Dunno. Isn't access to Wareham a bit restricted, which might put off those who are big enough to be used a s a floating holiday cottage?

 

[Nick_H]

I think Poole harbour is so close to Lymington that you can go there for the day, or weekends, you don't need to be moored there. If you were offering a Dartmouth berth for instance, I think you'd have a lot more interest.

I'm also pretty sure the berthing contract at both of the Lymington private marinas prevent you from swapping berths, so you're looking for someone on the buoys or yacht club moorings, which are mostly raggies anyway, so your target audience is very small.

 

[ChrisKaye]

I'd be interested in a temp mooring swap, my berth is in the IOW but I would like to be somewhere like Shamrock Quay, Town Quay, or Poole or somewhere like that, but then again potential swapper may not want to be in Island Harbour. Overall I think its a good idea if its at all possible, but I think may be restricted due to most marina berths being owned by the big operators and I bet they have some restriction on it

 

[DAKA]

The idea was great /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

I think some reasons for no replies might be

No mention of length
Dried to 2 ft
offer only open to Lymington berth holders only
but main reason, most berth holders can not swap berths, their contracts just dont let them. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Try a boat swap post ?

 

[Moonshiners]

As above as far as I'm aware no sub lets on contracts in any of the marina's and as far as i am aware on the river too. heard of a few "family boats" being removed from moorings as not the registered boats of the actual moorings, fairly recently...

Probably safe over night or for a day, but not worth the contract holder the hassle for a long period.

Sounds like a nice idea though!

 

[robyonfrome]

Lets start a campaign to change the rules so we are aloud to swap moorings. Why shouldn’t we, what’s the difference to them, as long as the boats are insured, as long as we notify the relevant authorities what possible reason is there not to be aloud to do it, lets go French

 

[Nick_H]

Actually i'm pretty sure you could swap, in terms of having the berth to use, but you would have to pay the marinas normal visitor charges, and they would pass on whatever part of that they normally pass on, to the berth holder. In the case of Lymington, that is half at the Yacht Haven, and, unsurprisingly, sweet FA at Berthon.

So if you can find someone at LYH that would give you their share of the marina charges, in exchange for the use of your berth, then you would effectively get half price berthing. I still don't think anyone in Lymington is going to be in a rush to swap though, as they can cruise to Poole in an hour, and Lymington has many more options for other places to go.