Winter haul closest to Manchester

[Foxy]

lots to do this winter - what would be the closest haul to Manchester - yacht about 40ft, 12 beam etc, but heavy.
also what about somewhere where we could rent a shed........?

any thoughts welcome!

pat

 

[Skylark]

How about these:-
Liverpool (no experience further to the north)
Conwy
Deganwy
Bangor (Penrhyn)
Dinorwic
Beaumaris
Puffwelly

 

[SteveSarabande]

Preston

 

[Tradewinds]

Do yachts still go up the Weaver from Liverpool to Northwich?

Used to winter my Seadog there. Maybe you'd be too big.

Just a thought anyhow.

 

[E39mad]

Friends had a Vancouver 36 in Northwich almost 20 years ago. Fun trip through Cheshire down the Weaver into the Ship Canal and then the Mersey via the big locks.

 

[Sandgrounder]

Fiddler's Ferry

 

[bigwow]

Fiddler's Ferry

He'll have a job getting past the bridge building site.

 

[armchairsailor]

Friends had a Vancouver 36 in Northwich almost 20 years ago. Fun trip through Cheshire down the Weaver into the Ship Canal and then the Mersey via the big locks.

x2 for Northwich. Depends really on where you are in Manchester - it's a little large...

 

[Sandgrounder]

He'll have a job getting past the bridge building site.

Not been there for 10 or more years so I can't comment but there were always some fairly substantial boats quietly resting there

 

[Foxy]

Thanks all - west Manchester (Salford Quays area) . 40ft, heavy boat, good to have a heart there in case I run out of talent, but somewhere not so far that I can pop down at weekends to do some jobs. Been doing the run to hamble for a while now and,pretty fed up with it. Trying to get enough time off from work to bring her up, but every time I get a few days off, the wind is resolutely from the SW! Humph.

 

[bigwow]

Now that Calemax Enterprise, grain barge, no longer goes up to the Manchester dry dock, by Salford Quays, it might be worth a wander over to see if there is any chance of a temporary berth there?

 

[Foxy]

Funnily enough I could probably make that happen, however I need to haul to replace a seacock etc

 

[Swanrad2]

The weaver to Northwich requires a boat safety certificate doesn't it?
Fiddlers Ferry would have been great (bit of a twitchy trip) but they are building a bridge so the Mersey seems a bit impassable at the moment.
You might be able to winter afloat at Spike Island in Widnes?
Liverpool marina is good.
Conwy marina is a lot closer by road than Beaumaris but costs more.

 

[SteveSarabande]

Preston Docks is far easier from Salford, straight up the motorway. Secure marina behind the lock, boatyard, lift.

 

[davidpbo]

Soon after I got our trailerable sailing boat I decided I wanted to check the drop down keel which involved having it craned off the trailer.

I took it to Jalsea Marine at Northwich http://www.jalsea.co.uk. They had quite a few large boats/small ships there in various states. Ask them, you would also need to check their policy on other contractors working in their yard, what size boats they can accomodate, what cranage they have etc.