Mooring Costs

[Nightwatch]

If fear of being accused of 'grave digging' an old thread. (This meant something else when I was an active lad about town!!!!) I thought I would just mention that I have,today, received our annual letter from the mooring and with it notification that there is an increase of 2p per foot per week. An increase of £57.00 per year. About 3%.

 

To be fair, we haven't suffered an increase for the past two years, One year was absorbed by the reduction of the VAT, but it's more money to find.

 

Anyone else had increases this year?

 

Martyn

[Dawnie]

If fear of being accused of 'grave digging' an old thread. (This meant something else when I was an active lad about town!!!!) I thought I would just mention that I have,today, received our annual letter from the mooring and with it notification that there is an increase of 2p per foot per week. An increase of £57.00 per year. About 3%.

 

To be fair, we haven't suffered an increase for the past two years, One year was absorbed by the reduction of the VAT, but it's more money to find.

 

Anyone else had increases this year?

 

Martyn

 

£1 per foot per year, same as last year

[Lady Muck]

Lucky you - our Bw mooring has gone up by about £300 every year we've had it.

[Naughty Cal]

2.5% increase (VAT increase) although i dont remember it going down 2.5% with the VAT reduction

[magpie patrick]

£1 per foot per year, same as last year

:lol:

 

Can you get a narrow boat there? £62 per annum would be an absolute bargain!

 

 

If fear of being accused of 'grave digging' an old thread. (This meant something else when I was an active lad about town!!!!) I thought I would just mention that I have,today, received our annual letter from the mooring and with it notification that there is an increase of 2p per foot per week. An increase of £57.00 per year. About 3%.

 

To be fair, we haven't suffered an increase for the past two years, One year was absorbed by the reduction of the VAT, but it's more money to find.

 

Anyone else had increases this year?

 

Martyn

 

Only the VAT going back on, but as the marina is practically full now, it is surely only a matter of time...

[carlt]

Mine went down by £160.

 

I'm still moving, though.

[Dawnie]

;)

 

Can you get a narrow boat there? £62 per annum would be an absolute bargain!

 

 

It has gone up from £25 per foot to £27 per foot, yes narrowboats are there but the piers are short! (70' on a 30' pier!)

Still reasonable though and it's probably as near to home as we can get on a waterway that goes somewhere and does not hold the prohibitive prices of the Thames

[churchward]

:lol:

 

Can you get a narrow boat there? £62 per annum would be an absolute bargain!

 

 

 

 

Only the VAT going back on, but as the marina is practically full now, it is surely only a matter of time...

I think he means an increase of a £1 per foot per annum on the old rate. Otherwise I shall be right behind you in the que!

 

Our present Marina didn't put up their rates this year and in fact we negotiated a decrease on our boat. There is quite a bit of mooring competition in the area so it seems prices are negotiable.

[alan_fincher]

£1 per foot per year

 

It has gone up from £25 per foot to £27 per foot,

 

You may wish to check your arithmetic!

[Dawnie]

You may wish to check your arithmetic!

 

Not doing very well today am I?

£25 in 2008

£26 in 2009

£27 in 2010

[alan_fincher]

Not doing very well today am I?

£25 in 2008

£26 in 2009

£27 in 2010

Sounds rather like our former marina then where slapping on 4 or 5% each year seemed "standard" irrespective of inflation, the RPI, or any other economic measure.

 

Not quite matched by my laST annual pensions increase of just 0.9%, unfortunately.

 

Frankly Martyn appears to have fared better than many of us in recent years, but one question, Martyn....

 

Is that 3% PLUS an extra 2.5% on VAT, or 3% overall ? If the latter, and you don't have to find the VAT, it's hardly any extra income to the moorings owner at all, is it ?

[Athy]

We moor at the same Oxfordshire location as Mr. Watch (and indeed as another forum member) and I had e-mail notification of this increase last week. Bearing in mind that this is the first increase in fees for two pr three years (although we have been there only since July 2009) , I find an increase of under £1 a week (our boat is a 45-footer) most reasonable. Of course I would rather have had no increase, but as that fat joke bank manager says on the TV advert, "It doesn't work like that". I'm sure that the landlord's expenses have gone up too.

[Nightwatch]

Is that 3% PLUS an extra 2.5% on VAT, or 3% overall ? If the latter, and you don't have to find the VAT, it's hardly any extra income to the moorings owner at all, is it ?

It's all inclusive of VAT. So in hindsight we haven't been punished too much. We didn't get a reduction nor an increase last year, so effectively we didn't see the 2.5% VAT saving.

 

Still have to find the 'little extra' though.

 

Martyn

[alan_fincher]

It's all inclusive of VAT. So in hindsight we haven't been punished too much. We didn't get a reduction nor an increase last year, so effectively we didn't see the 2.5% VAT saving.

 

Still have to find the 'little extra' though.

 

Martyn

You are getting off very lightly, at the moment - trust me!

[Nightwatch]

You are getting off very lightly, at the moment - trust me!

I do, I do!

 

Don't get me wrong, happy where we are as I and others have said in the past. just don't like have additional costs thrust upon my finances.

 

By the way Alan, are you happier now you have moved from the marina location, are you 'on-line' now?

[Athy]

In our case it was never going to make FINANCIAL sense to move the boat to that Oxfordshire location - after all, we had been mooring totally free of charge at the end of our garden prior to moving. But the quality of our boating life has improved tremendously in the last six months (we carried on taking 'Trojan' out until December) so I feel that the outlay is worth it. If or when I ever feel that it's no longer worth it, back the boat goes to the EOG mooring, but I don't foresee that happening any time soon.

[Nightwatch]

In our case it was never going to make FINANCIAL sense to move the boat to that Oxfordshire location - after all, we had been mooring totally free of charge at the end of our garden prior to moving. But the quality of our boating life has improved tremendously in the last six months (we carried on taking 'Trojan' out until December) so I feel that the outlay is worth it. If or when I ever feel that it's no longer worth it, back the boat goes to the EOG mooring, but I don't foresee that happening any time soon.

Honestly Athy, really pleased to hear that.

 

Martyn

[ditchcrawler]

2.5% increase (VAT increase) although i dont remember it going down 2.5% with the VAT reduction

Mine did go down last year,I pay in July, with the drop in VAT. But it tends to go up a bit each year but still the cheapest I can find in the area.

[casper ghost]

I pay a farmer for my mooring. BW are nagging him to increase his fees as he's so much cheaper than any of their moorings..

[Water Woman]

I pay a farmer for my mooring. BW are nagging him to increase his fees as he's so much cheaper than any of their moorings..

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I am on a farmers mooring, I pay him, I pay my licence and I pay for a mooring licence. If I were to be in a Marina would I still have to pay BW for the mooring licence? It is all very costly when added up.

[GUMPY]

For the little boat last year no rise as the VAT reduction took care of it

This year also no rise as the marina has done a deal whereby if we pay early we get the old VAT rate

[floatingphil]

So whats the average cost of an average L /L leisure mooring in Yorkshire with power hook up, jetty, water supply, parking etc etc?

 

Phil

[Nickhlx]

So whats the average cost of an average L /L leisure mooring in Yorkshire with power hook up, jetty, water supply, parking etc etc?

 

Phil

 

 

....and on the Thames ( Reading area) and the K and A ( East end ) ?

 

Nick

[shrimp]

(( i suppose its worth every penny there is a pub in crawling distance

 

I think its £208.33 a month and will go up in the march around the corner no moorings left £650 a yr

 

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