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Post by Mr Stabby on Aug 22, 2018 18:55:35 GMT
Mine is £312.50 a year. Ok. own up, what do you do to ‘pay’ the rest of it off. Eh? Well, I have to give CRT a bung too, and in fact that is more than the actual mooring fee- about £450 I think. But that's it, and I even get unlimited free firewood in return. But that's probably the type of thing Quaysider should be looking for especially if he's rarely if ever going to be there, an offside farm mooring as opposed to a marina.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Aug 22, 2018 19:22:12 GMT
It just goes to show really that Quaysider's suggested budget of £1,000 is quite reasonable. I pay just over £750 in total for a 42' boat. Obviously Quaysider's boat is longer but then on the other hand my mooring is in Warwickshire which is a fairly sophisticated county, whereas I presume Quaysider will be looking for a mooring in Yorkshire which is by comparison a rather primitive, backward and uncivilised place where the locals appear not to have evolved beyond communicating using a series of grunts, and where I would expect the cost of moorings to be geared more towards folk whose idea of unadulterated luxury is a trip to Lidl followed by an evening watching stock car racing and munching on chip barms.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2018 19:24:36 GMT
They produce world leaders like Robert Ebagum.
Eta did you realise that CRT are not allowed to demand the £450 bung? It is outwith their legal powers. If you want to know more about this you'll have to ask Tony Dunkley.
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Post by JohnV on Aug 22, 2018 19:30:59 GMT
I was informed (by another boater here in the Northern lands) that Yorkshire people (well the druggies anyway) are quite sophisticated .... The latest craze is injecting ecstasy. they normally inject in their mouth to hide the needle marks ..... It's known as E by gum eat your heart out Jim
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2018 19:43:40 GMT
It just goes to show really that Quaysider's suggested budget of £1,000 is quite reasonable. I pay just over £750 in total for a 42' boat. Obviously Quaysider's boat is longer but then on the other hand my mooring is in Warwickshire which is a fairly sophisticated county, whereas I presume Quaysider will be looking for a mooring in Yorkshire which is by comparison a rather primitive, backward and uncivilised place where the locals appear not to have evolved beyond communicating using a series of grunts, and where I would expect the cost of moorings to be geared more towards the ability of locals to afford. I thought they called it ‘God’s own country’. Are you saying His standards are slipping? TBH, the countryside up there is stunning in places.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2018 20:01:50 GMT
Can you get a mooring that cheap? Mine is £312.50 a year. Lies! Any space if not lies?
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Post by Mr Stabby on Aug 22, 2018 20:08:03 GMT
Mine is £312.50 a year. Lies! Any space if not lies? Not as far as I'm aware, although I've been out cruising for most of the year. I can PM you the farmer's phone number when I get back, although I think it is on CWDF in a thread where somebody else asked about it. I'll see if I can find it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2018 20:15:41 GMT
That’s ok, quite like mooring at hawkesbury, it’s ten minutes from the house and easy to go out on the piss and stay in the boat..
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Post by TonyDunkley on Aug 23, 2018 6:51:45 GMT
As per the subject, if anyone knows of any moorings available for buttons for a 57 footer, we'd really appreciate the heads up. I've been doing some sums and ideally would like to find somewhere about 1k a year. Apparently because we're licensed as a hotel boat we HAVE to have a home mooring ... whether we use it or not - ergo, we may as well give up this one at Stanley Ferry and move around at will. There is bugger all budget wise showing on waterscape so an end of garden mooring or farmers field type would be the ideal I think I can provide you with a field mooring near Barton Ferry on the Trent just upriver of Nottingham. There's water and mains electricity available, but the access for vehicles is bad to non-existent during the Winter for anything other than a 4 x 4 or a three-quarter mile trudge along a farm track and the river bank, and you would at times be alongside up to 2 or 3 other boats. The yearly rate paid in advance is £15.75/foot, or 6 x months @ £21.00/foot. You can contact me on 07553 294325 or e-mail at <Canalrivertransport@mail.com>.
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 23, 2018 7:54:58 GMT
Loads of farm moorings on the Shroppie. Yeah, but then the farmer says: "And do you know what an End-of-Garden-Licence is?" meaning what you pay has gone into his pocket, he has no intention of paying CRT any of it, and leaves you in the lurch, meaning you then have to contact CRT and first get permission from them to be there, and then to dig out another £1,800/year to hand over to them. We've gone through the "no such thing as End-of-Garden-Licences" many times, but it always boils down to this: Are you willing to go to Court over it?
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 23, 2018 7:57:01 GMT
Why are there so few boat ramps by the canals? Then you could winch your boat out and take it home with you, park it on your own yard. Mooring fees - has there ever been an easier way to rake in money from 'sitting ducks'?
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Post by kris on Aug 23, 2018 8:03:23 GMT
The farm moorings at barrowford are cheap sorry I haven't got a phone number.
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Post by quaysider on Aug 23, 2018 8:16:35 GMT
thanks for the replies fellas - we'll go through them again later and see if anything might fit... ideally we wont want to actually use the mooring - perhaps only turn up for a couple of months mid winter so location isn't really so important.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2018 9:51:28 GMT
thanks for the replies fellas - we'll go through them again later and see if anything might fit... ideally we wont want to actually use the mooring - perhaps only turn up for a couple of months mid winter so location isn't really so important. Tony's mooring sounds ok, maybe a decent set of M/T tyres for the RAV4
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Post by cygnus on Aug 23, 2018 13:06:59 GMT
thanks for the replies fellas - we'll go through them again later and see if anything might fit... ideally we wont want to actually use the mooring - perhaps only turn up for a couple of months mid winter so location isn't really so important. In that case what about Rawcliffe Bridge on the Aire & Calder? Few facilities (apart from the pub), but extremely cheap.
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