Our home mooring for Bee (Real boat made from GRP, proper engines and OK for the choppy stuff...lol ) is in colwick marina at the moment until we can move her to a proper marina like Fardon. Colwick is a bit like Tortuga in the pirates of the caribbean movies....anything goes.
I personally would just go in and moor up anywhere as you won't see any of the Rangers and I haven't seen any visitors moorings.
The only problem is the gate to the park is locked so you will have to ask someone to let you out and in. The facilities aren't the best either, the toilet block is outside of the locked gate and is the basically a public toilet open to park users.
