Update on progress in reducing on line moorings - July 2010
BW’s policy is to reduce on line moorings within a 30 mile radius or each new at a ratio of 1:10 within 12 months of the marina opening. We originally intended to implement thisthrough closure of selected sites, but following challenges from live-aboard boaters at sites identified for closure, we decided that the only practical way of meeting ourcommitment would be through natural wastage (i.e. berths becoming vacant andsubsequently decommissioned).
Following BW’s reorganisation in November 2009, the management of our online moorings business is the responsibility of a specialist team. This has allowed us to centralise, review and cleanse relevant data. We have just completed a review of all the reductions previously recorded in online moorings since the commencement date of our online mooring reduction policy. We have taken as a baseline the boats moored on all our directly managed sites at April 2006.
The exercise revealed some discrepancies between what our previous local managers had recorded as reductions and what we now find to be the case comparing the April 2006 records with those of today. The latest statement therefore includes some amendments where it was shown that moorings declared as closed had in fact been vacant pre the 2006 base date. It was felt these could not be included in the online reduction data. We did however find reductions in mooring berths that had come about for other reasons which compensated for the shortfall.
The current requirement is for BW to have closed 415 on line berths in respect of the marinas opened between January 2007 and April 2010. This has been achieved.
The table overleaf details the date by which closures should be complete, name of the marina opened alongwith the number of berths created, the navigation on which the marinais located and the number of closures required. It then details where moorings have been closed,the navigation on which they are located and the number of berths closed. A further table shows the sites where closures have taken place, the number of berths closed and the marina these relate to.
Once the target number of closures has been met for a particular marina, BW may re-distribute the berth reductions, re-instating some berths and closingan equal number elsewhere within the required area in order to protect mooring siteprofitability (a mooring with 6 berths is likely to become unprofitable if 3 berths arevacated as the site maintenance costs will remain relatively static). Such re-distributionis monitored by BW’s boating trade team to ensure continued compliance with our commitment.The dependence upon natural wastage is so far provingeffective, but it obviously does not have the visual impact that full site closures wouldhave.
Jenny Whitehall
Boating Trade Team Manager
July 2010
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closure by year and new marina since 2006
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closures by mooring site since 2006
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