Falmouth area Pontoons with Lekkie

I have been looking at the options for places to keep Lily M while making films about the Fal Estuary and the nearby Helford River

lily M

Although this area gets the mildest winters in the UK it will still be the winter time and it rains a lot down there

temperature falmouth rainfall

 

So I will need a pontoon somewhere with power. Showers are optional but the ability to dry out the inside of the boat and thaw Jill out will be really important.

I have made a short google earth tour of the options.

 

 

 

As you can see there are some lovely places to sail - trees, mists, birds, traditional boats along the shore. It looks perfect.

Moon on a stick

Moon on a stick time now but the ideal would be to start at Mylor for the autumn months where I can film the leaves changing colour along the tree lined creeks and estuaries.

Then move to the pontoons in Falmouth to film Christmas and new year in the town. I understand that Falmouth really takes the celebration of the new year with a degree of enthusiam that is remarkable to see. Finally I would like to go upstream to Penryrn for the spring where I can film the boat life of the river coming to life through February, March and April.

Mylor

Mylor has a lovely marina in a great location - with fantastic showers

https://www.mylor.com/

 

mylor

 

 

 

https://www.mylor.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Services-and-Charges-2015.pdf

but it is £28 a night plus £5 a day for parking a car and some extra money for a dinghy. They do offer a 15 per cent discount if you book a whole month but that comes out at a stiff £868 per month.

However, if you book the whole winter then it is £204 per meter for October to March - so that is £1600 - plus parking plus dinghy. This puts the place right up there with Hamble prices.

Falmouth Haven

There is a small marina along the front in Falmouth itself.

http://www.falmouthhaven.co.uk/

haven

 

http://www.falmouthhaven.co.uk/visiting-yachts/visitors-marina/

falmouth haven

It currently undergoing a serious make-over and is being polished and tidied up

the price is £2.60/m/day so The Centaur will be £20 a day

http://www.falmouthhaven.co.uk/visiting-yachts/visitors-fees/

so for that it will £620 a month.

Falmouth Marina

Upstream at Penryn there is a Premiere Marina

premiere

It is one of a chain of establishments owned by the UK's largest yachting companies.  The have several locations in the south of the UK

premiere marinas locations

They are decidedly up market.

https://www.premiermarinas.com/~/media/Downloads/Rates%20and%20Charges/2014%20Prices/Falmouth%20Berthing%20Price%20List010414.ashx?la=en

 

Falmouth Yacht brokers

 

http://www.falmouthyachtbrokers.co.uk/

falmouth yacht brokers

fal brokers fal pontoon

I have spoken to Jerry at Falmouth yacht brokers and he has offered me a price on a pontoon of £130 a month - but he says that I have to act fast otherwise the places will go.

 

 Malpas

http://www.malpasmarine.freeserve.co.uk/boatyard.htm

malpas

their price list is here - but the pontoons are only for boats under 25 feet

http://www.malpasmarine.freeserve.co.uk/price_list.htm

 

Truro

I am told there are pontoons with power up in Truro but they must have been installed since Google earth was up there

truro

Moorings for leisure craft

The entire Fal estuary holds approximately 4,500 moorings, 1,500 of which are located within the port of Truro and about 350 in Penryn. The moorings are available to leisure craft and are either of the deep water, half tide or beachMaylor berth (foreshore) or pontoon (Penryn only) type. In most cases the mooring license is let to the holder to place their tackle on the seabed. No separate harbour dues are levied on private moorings although it is implicit that a certain proportion of the mooring license will be utilised for the conservancy functions of the Harbour Authority. Applications for mooring licences should be made directly to the Port of Truro.

 

 

I will keep you guys posted on what happens. Occasionally I try to lever the power of KTL to negotiate a discount of some sort - but am usually met with a slightly blank look or a link to the standard visitor prices - and nothing wrong with that. These people have to earn money and clicks from an army of MOBs probably cuts no mustard

The only boss person I have spoken to so far is Jerry at

http://www.falmouthyachtbrokers.co.uk/Default.aspx

he has quoited a price of £130

 

Just out of interest...here are the KTL youtube stats

You tube is obviously the main presence any marina might be interested in because the links in the youtube films cut the mustard with the Google rankings.

youtbe front page

 

11,000 subscribers and 1.6 million hits

 

about

Here are the viewing stats from the past year - higher in winter than in the summer

views demographics

The fifteen films about the Solent have had 150,000 hits in the first six months.

 

The website gets far fewer hits - These images also tell an interesting story

ktl page views sessions

In summary - 3,500 films viewed a day and 700 blokes look at the website each day.

If any of this impresses anyone when it comes to getting a discount.......

 

I will let you know

Dylan

This is about Dylan Winter's Blog.

22 Responses to “Falmouth area Pontoons with Lekkie”

  1. 28 September, 2015 at 3:55 pmJes says:

    Wondering how you do your google earth tours, I tried to make one but it was quite jerky and sometimes you zoom in and miss the target!

  2. 28 September, 2015 at 4:01 pmdylan winter says:

    trade secrets here

    set a series of place markers in the order you want them

    set the section about moving between places as slow as you can

    then create the tour by clicking on them in sequence

    wait for it to stop before clicking on the next one

    then in make movie you set it to 50 frames per second – full HD

    bingo

    once in the edit line you look for some harmonious but still moving frames to click in a dissolve

    D

  3. 28 September, 2015 at 5:35 pmPeter Truelove says:

    The offer at Falmouth Yacht Brokers for October to March……. 6 months (inclusive) for £780…… while not exactly cheap, does look a much better deal than any of the others. It’s less than the cost of one month at Mylor. I think that this might be the place to go. In this life there are two sorts of people, the quick and the disappointed. Perhaps you should be quick. P.

  4. 28 September, 2015 at 6:17 pmdylan winter says:

    It is a good one – and I might end up there. It is really close to the road and the bridge – so it will be full of life

    I shall risk another 24 hours before deciding

    the film will be much better if I can move around a little. However, I can go and stay at Mylor for the odd night at £28 a pop

    D

  5. 28 September, 2015 at 6:40 pmRichard says:

    Mylor was just lovely this summer when I stayed there for about four weeks in total. However, they do know how to charge.
    £130 a month sounds the best you may get in Falmouth.

  6. 28 September, 2015 at 7:52 pmdylan winter says:

    I fear you are correct

    D

  7. 28 September, 2015 at 8:07 pmdylan winter says:

    I do know that Jill is most likely to sail with me in October and November – and that of all the places Mylor is the one that she will like best….

    and it is in a great location for capturing the autumn colours along the banks

    However the thick end of 2K for the winter is equivalent to Solent pricing

    I will still visit and sail past the place a few times so it will not get left out of the films

  8. 28 September, 2015 at 9:50 pmGiles says:

    Used to sail the Carrick Roads and environs in a Pegasus 800 with an old friend years ago – fantastic places to explore – the churchyard at St Just, The Pandora at Restronguet Creek, St Mawes and now the Heron pub at Malpas! Great place where you can sit on the terrace and admire your boat bobbing about below,

    The Mylor yacht club has moved from its premises on the end of the harbour and is now by the boat yard. Sad, but Jill will love the new place.

    My chum and I used to sail out of Mylor – he loved the place so much that he bought a place there…

    Have fun!

  9. 28 September, 2015 at 9:53 pmDavid and Jackie says:

    Falmouth marina are offering winter pontoons for c.900 in the email they sent me today. There are no pontoons in Truro but you can dry out next to Tesco. Pasce’s Boatyard in St Just is cheaper and they have just put in a warm place to sit with a stove, showers and toilets. Its all swinging moorings though. Give them a ring though – very helpful.

    Mylor is expensive and quite posh. Long way from shops too.

    Challenger Marine is good location for access to shops and town. Probably the best deal in town. If you want a cheap night there are floating pontoons up the Truro river which in winter will be free. Very quiet. Loads of quiet anchorages up creeks. Ruan Lanihorne creek is lovely.

    It does rain a lot in winter, Also very windy – second windiest county in UK. But it won’t snow – hasn’t since 2010 anyway. Next couple of weeks are going to be great weather and then it may go a bit wet and windy.

  10. 28 September, 2015 at 9:59 pmDavid and Jackie says:

    Spelling error Pascoe’s Boatyard.

    Challenger Marine is very tidal. Suspect you will only have access 2 or so hours either side of high water.? Worth checking anyway.

  11. 28 September, 2015 at 10:01 pmRichard F says:

    falmouth haven is a lovely marina, stayed a week there last year, lovely staff and the showers are clean and very nice. it may be a little pricey for a whole winter though

  12. 28 September, 2015 at 10:09 pmdylan winter says:

    I am slowly getting traction with them offering me some sort of discount.

    http://www.falmouthhaven.co.uk/

    Barry is having a think about it.

    I could stay the winter up at Penryn for £130 a month – but I am under pressure to make a committment to the six months

    http://www.falmouthyachtbrokers.co.uk/marina.aspx

    and visit the haven for a couple of nights. The films will not be as good as if I stayed there for a month or two – but I would still get show the entrance and do a marina tour.

    The films are always better if I stay somewhere for a while. I was hoping to get to film new year in Falmouth – which is – I understand – really rather extreme

    I am happy to wash in a bucket in the cockpit under cover of darkness but clean loos and good showers are more important when Jill is aboard.

    I hope that Mylor

    https://www.mylor.com/

    might allow me to stay for the autumn colours

    they are all having a bit of a think about it

    with any luck they will have a poke around the website this evening and then decide if they will succumb to the power of the KTL MOBs

    However, most of them want me to commit to six months and hand over the cash in one hit.

    D

  13. 28 September, 2015 at 10:44 pmWarren says:

    Wow! Great fly by.
    Spoiled for choice.
    The you tube stats are all ‘boating types’ so that should make the hits worth 10 times more even if half of us our armchair sailors.! No cute kitten here.
    Based on the weather prediction a close to all tide option would be good as would one home base for the season. Wouldn’t want to be stuck waiting for the tide as the wind and rain picks up.
    Glad I saw the Fal and Deben , for that matter, before they filled up with moorings.
    Warren

  14. 28 September, 2015 at 10:46 pmdylan winter says:

    tidal pontoons are fine by me – I like taking the ground – the bird life is better and the pontoons are cheaper

    I love being in my bunk and feeling the tide coming back

    pure physics in action

    D

  15. 29 September, 2015 at 12:47 amSteve says:

    Crazy prices!
    Could I ask who performed the music on the video? Lovely.

  16. 29 September, 2015 at 1:02 amJ. Peter Haliburton says:

    Thanks. I was wondering how to smooth it out myself.

  17. 29 September, 2015 at 7:34 amdylan winter says:

    brian finnegan – I am planning to use it on the next film – he is very good indeed.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Finnegan

  18. 29 September, 2015 at 7:35 amdylan winter says:

    getting the dissolves in the right place is also good to do – one other thing I end up cranking up the contrast on the render

  19. 29 September, 2015 at 8:05 amdylan winter says:

    woo hoo

    free video tutorials here too

    I think that as a shallow sailor google earth is a wonderful thing – and the Fal estuary looks brilliant I reckon

  20. 29 September, 2015 at 9:39 amEade says:

    Hi,

    Just being curious; how about all those boats that will go out of the water in winter? These berths must be available…
    Or are those the berths the marina’s are offering?

    Eade

  21. 29 September, 2015 at 10:24 amdylan winter says:

    some come out of the water – some come off the moorings and onto the pontoons

    generally speaking winter rates on pontoons are half those of the summer ones

    but only if you book for the whole six months

    and Mylor is £1600 for the winter

    4,500 boats in the Fal areas in total – I had no idea there were so many

    D

  22. 29 September, 2015 at 11:04 pmSteve says:

    He is indeed. Thanks for the info. I look forward to the next video!

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