Your marina and boat checking

[fishfoxey]

Just wondering what forum members marinas are like re boat checks during lockdown, will they check your boat on request for free or do they charge a fee. In my case to check the amount of credit on my electric post they don't charge but wont check unless you add some credit to the meter. Just wondering if this is standard practice.

 

[hinch]

mine do daily walk arounds and if i want them to check anything specific they'll go and do that on request via email for free.

 

[wombat88]

Mine does walkrounds as they all should and is happy to check things for me for free.

 

[Megs20Burt!]

walk-arounds (via security to spot anything out of place etc) every few hours for total marina.

Marina staff attend my boat on request, no charge. I forgot to empty the holding tank, so they drove it around and did a pump out for me as well for £15?

I can relax and await restrictions lift...??

 

[fishfoxey]

mine do daily walk arounds and if i want them to check anything specific they'll go and do that on request via email for free.

What areas that in?

 

[hinch]

What areas that in?

Hull marina all the way up north its part of the aquavista marina group though so I would assume any of their other marina's have the same service.

 

[DavidJ]

Empuriabrava
At least a daily walk around and sent me pics of a fender rearrangement recently.

 

[Switch]

Contacted my marina 'Premier Gosport' to ask them to check my tube heaters and turn my dehumidifier on. I've got one that doesn't switch itself on again after a power interruption. They did it within an hour of my call and called me back to say they have put my boat on a roster whereby someone will check it once a week.
Pretty good service I think.

 

[Laysula]

Regular walks around the marina everyday, The staff will check aboard your boat if you want and send photo's or video and also after the last storm plenty of boats seem to have acquired the blue rope of shame. It always amazes me how many people just leave their boats for months on end with just a few manky bits of string and knackerd fenders.

 

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It always amazes me how many people just leave their boats for months on end with just a few manky bits of string and knackerd fenders.

Particularly so at Brixham with all the strong easterlies of the past three weeks....

 

[Solent Sailor]

Not in a commerical marina, but a club facility (still a mini-marina) checked weekly by members. To be honest, some of our members do generally leave their boats tied up quite poorly in my opinion, and when I have been at my own I have frequently tightened someones spring (we're on the river, so springs tend to stretch in the tide) to move their stern or bow off the pontoon.

Heard good reports of Lymington YH's efforts to keep boats cared for and less kind reports from Hamble Point, but having been in both myself in the past, that doesn't surprise me unduly.