NEW MOORING FEES – INFLATION & SUPPORTING THE WRECK FEE FUND

After no increases for two years, we are going to increase next year’s fees by between 4-5% from 1st April 2026. The new fees will now be posted on the website. Please note that we will still be the cheapest available moorings on The Helford. Unless you own your own!    

Summer Mooring Fees
Pontoon Moorings £69.50 per foot
Trot & Swing Moorings £42.75 per foot
Beach Moorings 
10ft and Under £350 for 7 months
11ft and Over £33.50 per foot
Kayaks & Inflatables will not increase

Everyone with Summer Moorings last year will receive an email this weekend about Summer Moorings for this year.  If you know NOW that you DON’T want a mooring for this Summer, I would be most grateful if you could let me know asap as we have waiting lists for everything. 

We have also decided, as a private yacht club, to support the proposed Wreck Free Fund for cleaning up The Fal and Helford Rivers. They are looking to set up a fund that can manage the ”free” scrappage of wrecks on our two local rivers from 2026/27.  In the absence of any form of national scheme, the aim is to secure £165,000 per years from a collection of estuary stakeholders supplemented with grants to create The Wreck Fee-Fund which will run as a ground breaking pilot scheme for 3 years. They will then clear some of the 160 already mapped wrecks (see Wreck Free Fal and Helford – https://wreckfree.org/ ) in year one and two and then move on to disposing of end-of-life boats BEFORE they are abandoned which is a much cheaper way of doing it. (France has a national licencing system for all craft and with that they provide free scrappage of all boats at 8 sites.) We have committed to adding a 5% surcharge to all our moorings and this money will go to the Wreck Free Fund.  This won’t start until such time as enough stakeholders on The Helford and The Fal have committed to the plan but we would like to be one of first to make that commitment.  I can forward a document recently put together entitled Cleaning Up The Fal and Helford – The Wreck Free Fund  for anyone who wants more information. We have already experienced boats being abandoned in Port Navas creek and you only have to drive past Ana Maria Creek to see the problem, which is only going to get worse as thousands of fibre glass boats from the 70’s and 80’s reach end of life.  

See how Clean Ocean Sailing disposed of the abandoned yacht at Port Navas and just what is involved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf60vQSy6r4