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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.

Wight Dawn wrote: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

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.

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.

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 wrote:

Booby Trapper wrote: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

sahona wrote: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