Tacet Posted May 7, 2021 Report Share Posted May 7, 2021 2 hours ago, blackrose said: I think I paid about 30 quid for one night in the floating harbor + the fee to be on that stretch of water. But that was about 8 years ago so it's probably gone up since then. I only stayed one night and headed out to the Bristol channel the next morning Are you not mistaking the Severn estuary for the Bristol Channel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeHing Posted May 8, 2021 Report Share Posted May 8, 2021 £16.80 per day in the floating harbour based on a 15 day mooring license. £35 for a single day stay though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackrose Posted May 8, 2021 Report Share Posted May 8, 2021 21 hours ago, Tacet said: Are you not mistaking the Severn estuary for the Bristol Channel? I'm not sure. Where does one start and the other finish exactly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tacet Posted May 8, 2021 Report Share Posted May 8, 2021 1 hour ago, blackrose said: I'm not sure. Where does one start and the other finish exactly? Sand Point, near Weston-Super-Mare is the upper limit of the Bristol Chanel on the Somerset side. About 13 miles downstream of the mouth of the Avon. A friend of mine had the task of checking with the company's (one of the big four accountancy firms) insurer that the staff, charity fund raising activities were acceptable. There was a concern that teaching your colleagues a martial art might backfire on the firm if someone later used the new skill to beat-up strangers and similar thoughts. But his favourite was the queries raised in relation to the chap who proposed to swim across the Bristol Channel. “Would there be a safety boat?” was fair enough but “Can he swim?” seemed over-basic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keeping Up Posted May 9, 2021 Report Share Posted May 9, 2021 On 07/05/2021 at 22:28, Tacet said: Are you not mistaking the Severn estuary for the Bristol Channel? It's all so confusing around there! When we set out from Sharpness once we met a cruiser who had come down the Avon from Stratford to Tewkesbury, then down the Severn, and was heading for Portishead so he could rejoin the Avon there and thus travel back up to Stratford. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterboat Posted May 9, 2021 Report Share Posted May 9, 2021 On 01/05/2021 at 20:27, Jennifer McM said: I'm interested to know what boaters think about costs of mooring fees for 32 nights? Need to get to grips with costs..... thanks Edited to say; this marina is in the Midlands. Electric is normally 5% for home use wonder why its different for boats used as homes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frangar Posted May 9, 2021 Report Share Posted May 9, 2021 29 minutes ago, peterboat said: Electric is normally 5% for home use wonder why its different for boats used as homes? If it’s commercial as at our unit then vat can be charged at 20%. Doesn’t make a difference there as we just claim it back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady M Posted May 9, 2021 Report Share Posted May 9, 2021 VAT on electricity for 'house boats' should be charged at 5%. However, any admin fee applied by the marina operator will be at 20% VAT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steilsteven Posted May 10, 2021 Report Share Posted May 10, 2021 It might be a good idea to join a cruising club. https://awcc.org.uk/index.php Keith 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackrose Posted May 13, 2021 Report Share Posted May 13, 2021 On 08/05/2021 at 22:21, Tacet said: Sand Point, near Weston-Super-Mare is the upper limit of the Bristol Chanel on the Somerset side. About 13 miles downstream of the mouth of the Avon. Ok thanks, I didn't know that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naughty Cal Posted May 13, 2021 Report Share Posted May 13, 2021 Burton Waters, Lincoln now charge £21 per night for visitors. So would have been more expensive still!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john6767 Posted May 13, 2021 Report Share Posted May 13, 2021 On 09/05/2021 at 14:02, peterboat said: Electric is normally 5% for home use wonder why its different for boats used as homes? I would have thought it should be 5%. The VAT on the electricity infrastructure charge is also 5%, at least ours is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackrose Posted August 1, 2021 Report Share Posted August 1, 2021 On 07/05/2021 at 22:28, Tacet said: Are you not mistaking the Severn estuary for the Bristol Channel? Just watching an episode of "Saving Lives at Sea" in which several RNLI crew refer to the area outside Portishead as the Bristol Channel. If local RNLI crew are saying it I don't think it was such a big mistake - in fact I seem to recall my pilot calling it the Bristol Channel so the terms seem to be used interchangeably. If we're being pedantic then perhaps that's an error but it hardly seems worthy of mention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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