Cost of Marinas on the Clyde

[Bodach na mara]

Price of berthing at Largs for the coming season is £364/m for your size range Ash. This includes VAT, so as they charge to the nearest 0.1 metres above actual length, the projected cost is £3021.

You could also consider Cardwell Bay Sailing Club. The cheap and cheerful option. Mooring is a sort of DIY arrangement in that we each arrange something with the convenor. There is a trot chain and you may be able to get a riser put on, which is expensive the first year but then costs a lot less. Alternatively, the club could maybe get the mooring contractor to lay one. I did mine that way for years with old chain and heavy lumps of scrap which the y called "mushrooms". Fees are likely to be less than £30 with an entry fee about the same. There is a Vega (or two) already in the club.

Another idea is to exploit the special relationship with CBSC and ****. On second thoughts I better put that in a PM.

[ash]

Price of berthing at Largs for the coming season is £364/m for your size range Ash. This includes VAT, so as they charge to the nearest 0.1 metres above actual length, the projected cost is £3021.

Cheers Ken

I started on the assumption that it was VAT inclusive as the figures weren't 'round', but then I thought that I had a note of the 2009/2010 price at £373/M + VAT so changed my mind.

I'll ask Silkie if he would alter the figure in my first post.

Ash

[marisca]

While the subject of kids and dinghies is about, another bonus with the likes of Royal Gourock is space and facilities for keeping a Topper, Laser or something. Unless Gourock has changed since I was a kid, there will always be someone watching (and criticising) a boat on the water, so built in safety.

[sahona]

I feel Troon Cruising Club can tenuously be included in this thread, as it is in a harbour/marina environment, although not walk-on. It retained a small portion of the inner basin when the marina first came along, and berthing rates are lower than "walk-on" prices (Island pontoon and 'face the wall' berths). There are facilities for DIY, including a workshop with welding, lathe, drills, etc. as well as a concrete tidal drying grid, dinghy ramp and landing pontoon. Secure hard standing and hoist in winter, becomes a secure carpark in summer.
The sailing is sometimes not as sheltered as, say, Largs and the Kyles, but Arran is just a few miles away and a popular destination. Round the cans race programme includes all shapes and sizes.
For the true Practical Boat Owner living locally, it may be worth considering.

[aquaplane]

I rang Tarbert and I was quoted £136 per meter per year for a pontoon berth, so that's £1088 for a Centaur.

I bit more than I thought but not marina prices.

[ash]

Troon Prices here
http://www.yachthavens.com/site/site_rates.aspx?i=3" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I can’t get this link to work.

OK - Found the Troon Rate Card this morning. YachtHavens website works in a strange (to me) way. The above address is exactly the same for every rate card for every marina - but the content is different. Where the link takes you is dependant on which marina you had been looking at previously. I suspect that with cookies cleared, it wouldn't work again.

I'm sure the web experts will explain why.

Ash

[ash]

I feel Troon Cruising Club can tenuously be included in this thread, as it is in a harbour/marina environment, although not walk-on.

Cheers Bill

We've discussed this previously - I'll have a look for the old post. Found It.

Cheers

Ash