Moorings

[Traveller]

Having just ended a 6 year relationship with the Norfolk Broads, which we found crowded in season and with very limited navigable miles and moorings (especially moorings where one can loiter for a few days), we have now sold our Broads cruiser and the cash is in the bank awaiting the purchase of a narrowboat to replace the one we had for 20 years before venturing Norfolk-side!

 

Buying a boat brings with it the usual quest to find moorings and certainly rates do seem more favourable on the Broads, or some of the rates do anyway. It would appear that to moor a 45ft boat somewhere like Crick Marina, Gayton Marina etc. will cost around £1800 per annum. Are there any cheaper alternatives in that sort of area (Gayton, Crick, Whilton) that does not compromise on security too much? We have considered the Nene and the Fens but it is a drag getting from there back onto the cut.

Many thanks

Colin

[Captain Fizz]

It really does depend on what you want from a mooring.

Some marinas offer fantastic and immaculate facilities with superb shower blocks and club rooms. Others are just the basics.

At 45ft you should have quite a bit or choice.

All I would say, is visit plenty and talk to boaters on site to get a true picture.

[Traveller]

Thanks for that and what you say is apposite as evidenced by, for example, Crick Marina. I think the problem is that all I can seem to find is marinas of that quality when perhaps a "boatyard" might do.

Names/sugestions would help here

[Arphamoe]

Try the Boatyard at Weedon (formerly Concoform) - a boatyard with secure facilities. Website - www.concoformmarine.co.uk

[adam1uk]

I know a boat moved on from High House Wharf this summer, so they might have a space.

[Traveller]

Thanks, I shall get in touch with the suggested outfits.

[junior]

Is Cooks Wharf (Cheddington) too far? There is a nice CRT mooring that keeps appearing on the auction website. It looks really nice and has all the facilities.

[alan_fincher]

Is Cooks Wharf (Cheddington) too far? There is a nice CRT mooring that keeps appearing on the auction website. It looks really nice and has all the facilities.

Except that the reserve price of a berth there in those mooring is £1,918, so is certainly not less that the £1,800 figure OP says they are trying to undercut.

[ditchcrawler]

Thanks, I shall get in touch with the suggested outfits.

I dont know if there is any space with Ahty and Nightwatch on the S Oxford at Forge Farm, it looked a bit empty when we passed yesterday.

Edited October 27, 2013 by ditchcrawler

[Nightwatch]

I dont know if there is any space with Ahty and Nightwatch on the S Oxford at Forge Farm, it looked a bit empty when we passed yesterday.

Yep, you're correct. There are two vacancies at Forge Farm and one at the moorings just to the north of Claydon Locks on the Wharf there.

 

Martyn

[ditchcrawler]

I was surprised how full the new Cropredy Marina is already and how many spaces at Fenny Compton

[Nightwatch]

Yes, Cropredy seems to filled up rather quickly. It must have had an impact on other mooring locations in the area.

 

As far as I'm aware, the vacancies at Clattercote are not a result of the marina at Cropredy.

 

I have enquired about diesel prices and the cost of a pump out there and they are not favourable.

 

Pump Out £16.00 and diesel for Domestic use is £1.05 a litre. Propulsion use would be in the region of £1.50 a litre.

 

Any views on these prices?

 

Martyn

[ditchcrawler]

Yes, Cropredy seems to filled up rather quickly. It must have had an impact on other mooring locations in the area.

 

As far as I'm aware, the vacancies at Clattercote are not a result of the marina at Cropredy.

 

I have enquired about diesel prices and the cost of a pump out there and they are not favourable.

 

Pump Out £16.00 and diesel for Domestic use is £1.05 a litre. Propulsion use would be in the region of £1.50 a litre.

 

Any views on these prices?

 

Martyn

I paid £20 for a pump out at Kate boats in Warwick, mind you he did a very thorough job flushing the tank.

[Nightwatch]

I think if it's a good job then the cost is irrelevant, within reason of course.

 

It's a same the costs at Cropredy are such. Just trying to save a trip to Fenny Compton. Pump out there is £12.00.

[ditchcrawler]

I think if it's a good job then the cost is irrelevant, within reason of course.

 

It's a same the costs at Cropredy are such. Just trying to save a trip to Fenny Compton. Pump out there is £12.00.

But I don't plan to eat mu dinner off the bottom of my empty po tank

[system 4-50]

I paid £20 for a pump out at Kate boats in Warwick, mind you he did a very thorough job flushing the tank.

What does that make the cost, in terms of pence per spending a penny?

[Mike Tee]

What does that make the cost, in terms of pence per spending a penny?

If I remember correctly from the Friday joke, it isn't spending a penny any more, its euronation.

[Grace and Favour]

But I don't plan to eat mu dinner off the bottom of my empty po tank

I suggest the correct trick is to leave your previous dinner on the bottom of your tank......