Visitor's Moorings - "Name & Shame"
If a visiting boat uses one of the club's two blue 15 tonne maximum Visitor's Moorings and hasn't paid the £10.00 charge by going to www.pay-mooring.co.uk or put the money in the letter box by the notice board near the castle, as stated on the mooring buoys, after 14 days all boats that haven't paid will be displayed here. All boats are photographed that use the Visitors' Moorings.
These mooring buoys cost over £1,500 each to install and money has to be raised annually to service the moorings and pay the Crown Estate's annual mooring fees too, so the club relies on the honesty of skippers to pay up and makes it easy using a credit/debit card via PayPal on the Internet even providing free WiFi Internet access at the moorings. We also say the fee can be paid once you are home!
Boats that still have to pay are shown below and when they have paid, their photograph(s) will be removed... Only one (1) didn't pay in 2008, four (4) didn't pay in 2009, five (5) in 2010 and so far four haven't paid their mooring fees to date in 2011 beyond the 14 days allowed which is very disappointing that some yacht skippers will use a mooring without wishing to pay the £10 fee? One wonders why? If they can't afford the fee they should anchor? The club has provided these moorings for the benefit of visitors to Carrick Castle! Thank you to all those that have paid - these fees pay for the servicing and upkeep of the visitor's moorings...
2011
2011/4 No Name yacht 30-10-2011
No Name yacht
This No Name yacht used the Carrick Castle Boat Club's Visitor's Mooring over night on 30th October 2011, yet has not paid their £10.00 mooring fee to today's date? This photograph will be removed once the mooring fee has been paid...
2011/3) No Name yacht 26-09-2011
No Name yacht
This No Name yacht used the Carrick Castle Boat Club's Visitor's Mooring over night on 26th September 2011, yet has not paid their £10.00 mooring fee to today's date? This photograph will be removed once the mooring fee has been paid...
2011/2) Yacht Golden Acorn 27-07-2011
Yacht Golden Acorn
Yacht Golden Acorn used the Carrick Castle Boat Club's Visitor's Mooring over night on 27th July 2011, yet has not paid their £10.00 mooring fee to today's date? This photograph will be removed once the mooring fee has been paid...
2011/1) Yacht Diana 29-04-2011
Yacht Diana
Yacht Diana used the Carrick Castle Boat Club's Visitor's Mooring over night on 29th April 2011, yet has not paid their £10.00 mooring fee to today's date? This photograph will be removed once the mooring fee has been paid...
2010
2010/5) Yacht Passarina 27-09-2010
Yacht Passarina
Yacht Passarina used the Carrick Castle Boat Club's Visitor's Mooring over night on 27th September 2010, yet has not paid their £10.00 mooring fee to today's date? This photograph will be removed once the mooring fee has been paid...
2010/4) Yacht Moonsong 12-09-2010
Yacht Moonsong
Yacht Moonsong used the Carrick Castle Boat Club's Visitor's Mooring over night on 12th September 2010, yet has not paid their £10.00 mooring fee to today's date? This photograph will be removed once the mooring fee has been paid...
2010/3) Yacht Wayzgoose 28-07-2010
Yacht Wayzgoose
Yacht Wayzgoose used the Carrick Castle Boat Club's Visitor's Mooring over night on 28th July 2010, yet has not paid their £10.00 mooring fee to today's date? This photograph will be removed once the mooring fee has been paid...
2010/2) Yacht Erythiea 30-04-2010
Yacht Erythiea
Ketch, Erythiea, used the Carrick Castle Boat Club's Visitor's Mooring over night on 30th April 2010, yet has not paid their £10.00 mooring fee to today's date? This photograph will be removed once the mooring fee has been paid...
2010/1) Yacht Minnie 28-04-2010
Yacht Minnie
Yacht, Minnie, used the Carrick Castle Boat Club's Visitor's Mooring over night on 28th April 2010, yet has not paid their £10.00 mooring fee to today's date? This photograph will be removed once the mooring fee has been paid...
2009
2009/4) Schooner Flower of Caithness 17-09-2009
Schooner Flower of Caithness
Two-masted schooner, Flower of Caithness, with a pirate flag as their ensign, used a Carrick Castle Boat Club's Visitors' Mooring over night on 17th September 2009, yet has not paid their £10.00 mooring fee to today's date? This photograph will be removed once the mooring fee has been paid... The Mooring Officer contacted the charter company who owned the yacht and below you will find their unbelievable response...
This is the response from the operator of the Flower of Caithness, a crewed charter boat featured as a non-paying user. It is in response to two very polite messages sent, one as a direct e-mail to which there was no response and the other sent via their on-line bookings enquiry system, therefore the reference at the bottom to 'booking on the schooner'. Both simply stated the basis of our visitors' mooring and requesting payment, while welcoming future visits if payment is made. No doubt this vessel is as welcome at Lochgoilhead as it will be at Carrick Castle in future. (Note the moorings in Lochgoilhead have nothing to do with the visitors' moorings in Carrick Castle that are 15 tonne moorings that are also serviced annually at great expense to the club). It may be worth noting that this extract was sent on Saturday night when most 'Ale houses' are most definitely open, which might explain the semi literacy or inability to use a spell-checker.
Saturday, January 30, 2010 8:58 PM "Hi Carick Castle Boat Club. Thank you for including a picture of our schooner on your web page. Keep it on as long as you wish, it is probably the most interesting thing on your website anyway. We only visited your grotty little village because we were wrongfully informed that there was a house of ill repute there. An ale house. Unfortunately the ale house in question had been pulled down. (probably by the 'good living' churchgoers of the above mentioned grotty little hamlet. We have no intention of visiting Loch Goil at any time in the future. We have taken tourists to Loch Goil in the past so as to help your tourist industry and all we get is demands for mooring fees. (We can't trust your moorings anyway as we dragged the one in Lochgoilhead head) The mooring not being capable of holding the 15 tons as stated. Yours Pirate Pete. p.s. As regards booking a trip on the schooner don't think that you would fit in with the clientele."
2009/3) Ketch with no name 12-09-2009
No name ketch
A ketch with no name used the Carrick Castle Boat Club's Visitor's Mooring over night on 12th September 2009, yet has not paid their £10.00 mooring fee to today's date? This photograph will be removed once the mooring fee has been paid...
2009/2) Yacht Dixie 02-09-2009
Yacht Dixie
Yacht Dixie used the Carrick Castle Boat Club's Visitor's Mooring over night on 2nd September 2009, yet has not paid their £10.00 mooring fee to today's date? This photograph will be removed once the mooring fee has been paid...
2009/1) Yacht Rojo of Fleetwood 23-05-2009
Yacht Rojo of Fleetwood
Yacht Rojo of Fleetwood used the Carrick Castle Boat Club's Visitor's Mooring over night on 23rd May 2009, yet has not paid their £10.00 mooring fee to today's date? This photograph will be removed once the mooring fee has been paid...
2008
2008/1) Yacht Fiddlers Dram 28-06-2008
Yacht Fiddler's Dram
Only one yacht that has used the Carrick Castle Boat Club's Visitor's Mooring over night in 2008 has not paid their £10.00 mooring fee to toay's date? That yacht is Fiddler's Dram on 28th June 2008 who phoned to say they would pay when they got home but haven't paid yet? This photograph will be removed once the mooring fee has been paid...
