Mooring for boat

[rennie]

The boathouse pub seems to be a bit of a bike stop as well!

[Capt Sisko]

Doesn't boat stand for: "Break Out Another Thousand"

Edited April 5 by Capt Sisko

[S-Westerly]

4 hours ago, Davidtav said:

If it flies or floats then it is cheaper to rent! … that is the abridged version of this saying for reasons of decency!

I know what the other F is too and don't entirely agree with the sentiment. Totally agree with what floats but no experience of something that flies.

[Mickly]

1 hour ago, Capt Sisko said:

Doesn't boat stand for: "Break Out Another Thousand"

Nope it’s ‘Byway Open to All Traffic’ … trail riding nivarna

[curlylegend]

4 hours ago, S-Westerly said:

I know what the other F is too and don't entirely agree with the sentiment. Totally agree with what floats but no experience of something that flies.

What about the other "F" ?

[Tinkicker]

18 hours ago, Capt Sisko said:

Doesn't boat stand for: "Break Out Another Thousand"

 

 

The other definition of a boat is a hole created in the water that you attempt to fill with money.

[Tinkicker]

22 hours ago, rennie said:

Here you go 

 

 

If you had not stated you were at Shardlow, I would have sworn blind that the last three pics were pics of Naburn.

 

 

A far cry from the heavily industrial Goole Boathouse Marina, an old timber pond on Goole Docks.  Many of the smaller boats arrived there from Naburn too, as the less well heeled, but enthusiastic boaters were forced out by the ever increasing fees after the original owner and builder sold it to a building material supplier chain.

The focus seemed to change from the enthusiastic boater to well heeled, distance owners who rarely if ever visited, and the caravan club with new clubhouse, shower blocks and the hardstandings where boats were taken out for maintenance turned into caravan pitches.

 

I heard from a few of those that arrived at Goole a couple of years after us that apparently, quite a few boats chocked up on the hardstandings long term while being gradually overhauled had notice that their annual contracts would be refused at renewal time and had to be scrapped as older, scruffy boats perched on oil drums while being repaired long term were now frowned upon.  Of course the fact that they were sitting on proposed caravan pitches had nothing to do with it.

A nightmare scenario for the owners as what the hell do you do with an elderly, comparatively low value fibreglass boat that is unseaworthy and too large to tow away on a trailer?  I guess cutting it up and throwing the pieces in a series of skips is the only thing you can do.  Anything else involves heavy haulage to a different location or very expensive marina fees for the disposal.

At least ours at just a shade under 22ft had a trailer.

 

Taken winter 2010.  Many empty berths as the enthusiastic boaters are forced out by ever rising fees and slowly being filled with million pound boats whose owners were never seen.  The once busy, friendly pontoons were desolate.  We spent entire weekends where we only saw maybe two people.  The beginning of the end for us at Naburn.  We hung on another couple of years.

 

Big money always destroys everything it dreams of...

 

 

Goole Marina... Not Naburn, but also not run by bandits... At that time.  Times change.   Heavily industrial and in the final analysis, not worth £500 per night.

 

I will never own a boat in the UK ever again.

 

Edited April 6 by Tinkicker

[Fiddlesticks]

Know it well. Mrs. Fiddlesticks is from Goole.

The day after her 18th birthday we packed all her belongings into the back of my car and we drove off into the sunset.

 

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

I shall stick to my dinghy sailing then. Most of our lot sail weekly, help one another out with tips and maintenance,  do all the DIY tasks necessary to run the club and don't take themselves too seriously.  

 

Plus those of us who also race RC yachts of course. 

 

It's budget sailing and it's a lot of fun. 

 

Mind you, I'm at the expensive end of things, £50 berthing fee for my Comet and whopping £10 insurance for my DF65 RC boat. 

[rennie]

My 2 top pics are Shardlow wharf the others are in or around Shardlow marina. There seemed to be a fair amount of boat activity but there were also some fairly derelict looking ones. Not a bad site for a weekend away for us 2nd time we've been 

[onesea]

3 hours ago, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

I shall stick to my dinghy sailing then. Most of our lot sail weekly, help one another out with tips and maintenance,  do all the DIY tasks necessary to run the club and don't take themselves too seriously.  

 

Plus those of us who also race RC yachts of course. 

 

It's budget sailing and it's a lot of fun. 

 

Mind you, I'm at the expensive end of things, £50 berthing fee for my Comet and whopping £10 insurance for my DF65 RC boat. 

Bigger boat clubs Clubs still exist like that even on the south coast. You just have to know where to look. Be prepared to do the work yourself and be looked down on by people with money who think you need electric, self stowing furling everything. 

 

I am hoping my upcoming changes will be for the better on that front, however berthing is going to double.

 

My sailing has cost me on average about 2k a year all in.  That’s about £40 a day maybe less, that doesn’t include the pleasurable days furkling on the boat just because which I also enjoy.