Yarmouth - reserving a berth

[davel]

I seem to remember reading that Yarmouth were considering a booking system for reserving berths at popular times (like most summer weekends).
Does anyone know if they've done this, and if so, who to contact?

Dave L.

 

[JeremyF]

Yarmouth wont, unless you are party of a rally, I believe

Poole and Bucklers Hard will now take reservations, though apparently Poole was booked out a month ago for last Saturday, and they were 12 deep in Town Quay!

Jeremy Flynn

 

[steve_cronin]

Thoughts of the spectre of Charlie Atrill.....

sitting there in his little varnished pulling stem dinghy equipped with a laptop scrolling through to find your boat's name on the reservations list... "Now sir, can we help you?"

Nah, how are they going to do it without a queue out across the track of the ferries? Can you imagine it at BH weekends?

Mind you ANYTHING's possible these days! Now if they built a bridge from Lymington and put all the yachts on transporters..... Les running the traffic lights from the pier head.

Would you need to berth in a pre-set pattern? Bit like arriving at the theatre and finding someone in your seat. "Err excuse me, I think starboard 6 and 7, port side to, second out is my berth" Hmmnn.....

Steve Cronin

 

[davel]

Re: Thoughts of the spectre of Charlie Atrill.....

I'd imagined that each berth would have a pilot who would be waiting at the harbour entrance with your name on a piece of paper nailed to a stick (like they do at the airport as you exit the arrivals hall).
Sounds reasonable to me - folks here are always banging on about lamentable service from the marine industry. This would seem like a useful service to the boating public.

Dave L.