Good moorings around manchester

[Mr bumble]

Wont  be until next year but gathering thoughts and good moorings .

Quite new to it all but daydreaming .

Looking for boat late summer /new year ...some sort of cruiser or cheap barge even to do up .

 

 

Longish mooring 

Edited August 25, 2019 by Mr bumble

[ditchcrawler]

I take it its not a visitor mooring you are looking for the

[Mr bumble]

Correct ..no boat yet just gathering ideas/ options 

 

[mrsmelly]

1 hour ago, Mr bumble said:

Wont  be until next year but gathering thoughts and good moorings .

Quite new to it all but daydreaming .

Looking for boat late summer /new year ...some sort of cruiser or cheap barge even to do up .

 

 

Longish mooring 

Hi and welcome. One bit of advice is to forget the word " cheap " it is never relevant to boaters/boating.

[MtB]

3 hours ago, mrsmelly said:

Hi and welcome. One bit of advice is to forget the word " cheap " it is never relevant to boaters/boating.

 

Seconded.

 

Especially true with, I suspect, "Manchester" included in the mix. 

 

 

[MtB]

4 hours ago, Mr bumble said:

or cheap barge even to do up .

 

 

And just to expand on this, anything cheap tends to be cheap because a fcktonne of money needs to be spent on it to make it useable. If doing it up was cheap, it would have been done up and sold as a good boat. Cheap boats get sold as 'doer-uppers' to mug punters who don't do their research and grossly underestimate the costs involved. So well done for asking here first. Tons of experienced advice here if you tap into it.

 

 

[BilgePump]

Although understanding the similarity to 'Need a London mooring' posts, the OP did say around Manchester in the title @Mike the Boilerman. I'm hoping he is a fellow Manc who would like to know where a leisure boat could find a permanent mooring around the area. Welcome to the forum btw @Mr bumble

 

Greater Manchester is a big place. Have a look on CaRT's http://www.watersidemooring.com site, within 20 miles of Manchester, currently there are 5 vacant moorings out of 111 and they are all out all out on the edge of that radius. They do come up though. Recently grabbed a short mooring about ten miles south in a favourite location, waited months for one like it to come up and was already paying for another further out. Register and select your preferred locations and you will get text and email alerts when one is available. 

 

Also remember that afaik always with CaRT, many field moorings and some marinas you will pay for the berth size. If your boat is shorter, it's no cheaper.

 

For private/marina moorings off the top of my head, in Manchester itself, there's New Islington, then outside of town you've got amongst other places, Droylsden, Portland Basin, Hyde, Marple, New Mills, Furness Vale, Lyme View, Poynton heading south and the Rochdale and Huddersfield canals going north. Budget possibly £40-50/ft/yr for marina mooring in the Cheshire/Derbyshire area (farmer's field or CRT will be cheaper). Personally , I live too close to the madness  of Manchester ('luv it though) to want a boat as close to home as possible, prefer being afloat out in the fields, yet still within a 'commute' drive or a few hours on the bike.  Shouldn't even mention the possibility of the Bridgewater and licences from Peel Holdings.

 

And as @mrsmelly  says, cheap and boats definitely do not go together. With a small GRP boat like mine it is very easy to pay out far more than it is worth each year on fees; with a cheap colander of a steel project just keeping it from sinking can easily run into five figures. Understand the costs (our area isn't London prices thankfully), identify a mooring location and secure a berth, find a decent boat in your size and budget (GRP is a safe bet for leisure use) and have fun. Start cheap not too costly, small, decent and basic to start because a cheap  very costly liability, nightmare of a major project can be a heartbreaker.