Wild camping for yachts

Herman

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I was sat at garage today watching the news whilst waiting for the car to be MOTed, and I don't know if anyone else seen this but I thought, why can they not have the same attitude towards Motorhomes.

The news was about the delicate sea grass or meadow being damaged by boats dropping anchor in a lovely bay. Now straight away I thought you can stop in a campsite and pay ie. a marina or a harbour or you can wild camp and drop anchor in a bay. So with all this wide mooring going on the sea meadow is being damaged and the little sea horses habitat is being destroyed, but instead of floating a few signs out saying no overnighting they have supplied a load of expensive bouy's that are fastened to spikes in the seabed by rubber bands so the bouy rise and fall with the tide and the boats moor to them instead of dropping anchor.

So they are encouraging wilding in a delicate ecosystem instead of discouraging, which is great, now why can't the splash some cash and provide the equivalent for us, and a couple of tons of gravel to park on is probably cheaper.

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Herman said:
I was sat at garage today watching the news whilst waiting for the car to be MOTed, and I don't know if anyone else seen this but I thought, why can they not have the same attitude towards Motorhomes.

The news was about the delicate sea grass or meadow being damaged by boats dropping anchor in a lovely bay. Now straight away I thought you can stop in a campsite and pay ie. a marina or a harbour or you can wild camp and drop anchor in a bay. So with all this wide mooring going on the sea meadow is being damaged and the little sea horses habitat is being destroyed, but instead of floating a few signs out saying no overnighting they have supplied a load of expensive bouy's that are fastened to spikes in the seabed by rubber bands so the bouy rise and fall with the tide and the boats moor to them instead of dropping anchor.

So they are encouraging wilding in a delicate ecosystem instead of discouraging, which is great, now why can't the splash some cash and provide the equivalent for us, and a couple of tons of gravel to park on is probably cheaper.

Where it all began | News | Boatmoorings.com

www.boatmoorings.com
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Cause boat people dont go outside and set up tables/chairs and lite barbies on the water, unless you are from Galilee. 🤔 😂
 
It's a different situation really.

There is no easy fix to prevent Motorhomes causing damage to delicate ecosystems, laying gravel would be causing damage in itself, so the answer is to park elsewhere.
 
Moorings provided by any harbour authority will incur a mooring charge, some of which are fairly hefty. When moored or anchored on a yacht the only way to do anything except to sit on it is to inflate a dinghy and head ashore and that is usually to buy provisions. The sailing mindset is always to be self sufficient, enough food and water on hand should the weather deteriorate and getting ashore is not tenable. In the camper you can just drive down the road in almost any weather and pop into a supermarket. As for the sea toilet question I knew a marine biologist who reckoned the amount of waste compared to the amount of water was such that it just added to the start of the food chain…. Bear that in mind when tucking into your next bowl of mussels in white wine.
 
There is the word of difference between a solitary yacht emptying black waste miles out at sea and dumping a cassette into the harbour. As @tidewatcher implies, the sea easily deals with the former which has pretty much always been standard practice for leisure sailing yachts.
Whilst the latter should never happen, it's a pity that the water companies are not properly held to account for the millions of gallons of raw sewage that they dump every year.
 
number14 said:
There is the word of difference between a solitary yacht emptying black waste miles out at sea and dumping a cassette into the harbour. As @tidewatcher implies, the sea easily deals with the former which has pretty much always been standard practice for leisure sailing yachts.
Whilst the latter should never happen, it's a pity that the water companies are not properly held to account for the millions of gallons of raw sewage that they dump every year.
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Exactly my point it should never happen, but does.
Apologies if I misled anyone I was not referring to dumping at sea 3 miles from shore, I was referring to boats doing so whilst moored in marinas or ports for long periods. And yes when out doing coastal walks I have noted sewerage pipes heading out only a couple of hundred yards, I often wondered why this was allowed.
 
It sounds as though this is about Studland bay. There was a 'no anchor' area there over 30 years ago when I did my coastal skipper course. The bay contains a type of sea grass that is ideal for sea horses and is easily damaged.
Installing mooring bouys is a good way to stop boats anchoring there.
 
Fisherman said:
Exactly my point it should never happen, but does.
Apologies if I misled anyone I was not referring to dumping at sea 3 miles from shore, I was referring to boats doing so whilst moored in marinas or ports for long periods. And yes when out doing coastal walks I have noted sewerage pipes heading out only a couple of hundred yards, I often wondered why this was allowed.
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The sewerage pipes are discharging treated waste water, the same as they discharge into the rivers inland.
 
River I use to paddle on would stink of washing powder on Saturdays cos of the amount of people with washers in garages/outbuildings with the waste going into the rain drains :(
 
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