Yarmouth Surcharge for Visiting Catamarans

[prv]

I can see the point of the marina wanting to charge for space eg on a pontoon berth but where berths are alongside and many visitor berths are, and rafting is not an option for any boat cat or mono due to space say for other boats to pass in the marina then the only fair criteria to charge is length.

But visitors at Yarmouth are always rafted up, so width is an important consideration. If you can fit two seven- or eight-foot wide 26-footers onto a raft but only one 13-foot wide 26-foot catamaran, then the catamaran is effectively taking up two berths. Yarmouth gets full on busy weekends and has to turn people away, so this does make a real difference.

Pete

 

[Otter]

Don't understand your point. The marina asks for loa and beam and then multiplies one by the other and then applies a standard cost per SqM, easy and fair.

I know it happens in some med marinas but not gonna happen here. The first marina to do it would put of whole swathes of wealthy visitors with wide modern yachts. Only Contessa owners would visit and who'd want a marina full of that sort

 

[prv]

I know it happens in some med marinas but not gonna happen here. The first marina to do it would put of whole swathes of wealthy visitors with wide modern yachts.

Wealthy visitors wouldn't care.

Pete

 

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I know it happens in some med marinas but not gonna happen here. The first marina to do it would put of whole swathes of wealthy visitors with wide modern yachts. Only Contessa owners would visit and who'd want a marina full of that sort

I don't see why Contessa owners shoud subsidise modern Awb's - which is the logical extension of your argument.