Westview Marina
Westview Marina is on the River Great Ouse in the village of Earith in Cambridgeshire. The marina is located with good access to major trunk roads and lies 6 miles from the riverside town of St Ives and 10 miles from Cambridge. It is a family owned marina set away from busy roads and enjoying an extensive river frontage.
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Westview Marina is centrally placed on the Great Ouse. Traveling upstream through the locks you can reach St Ives and Huntingdon within a few hours and Bedford in a day or two. You can travel downstream through Hermitage Lock and reach Ely in approx 4 hours or head for the Cam and arrive in Cambridge. There is the option of going down the new Bedford River to King’s Lynn for those wishing to cruise on the coast.
Facilities at Westview include a crane with a capacity of 30 ton, a laying up area, diesel, gas and a chandlery. There is an Environment Agency waste pump out on the visitor’s jetty. There is electric and water on mooring pontoons around the marina
The marina accommodates a small caravan park for touring caravans.
The common seal is a frequent visitor at Westview Marina and the young seals enjoy putting on displays in the summer for anyone who cares to watch.
The seals enjoy the warmer weather when they sunbathe on the pontoons and they frequently follow the boats cruising along.
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Only two miles from Bedford town centre, yet surrounded by rich and diverse wildlife, Priory is the natural anchor for life on the River Great Ouse. You can rest assured that with our established reputation for safety, security and reliability, at Priory you will have chosen one of the best in the region.
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Priory Marina is situated less than two miles from Bedford town centre, in the peaceful Priory Country Park, recently awarded the coveted Green Flag status. The marina has excellent road links from both the M1 and A1, with mainline rail links to London (only 40 minutes to St. Pancras), the Midlands and the East from Bedford station and nearby Sandy.
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Pike And Eel Hotel And Marina
The Pike and Eel Marina offers private moorings for upto 180 boats. We offer the following range of facilities and services:
* A range of moorings with/without electric hookup
* Diesel & water available
* Boatyard with overwintering/boat storage (not undercover)
* Slipway and boat removal facilities
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Hartford Marina
Located in the heart of the beautiful Cambridgeshire countryside, conveniently close to the main towns of Huntingdon and St. Ives, Hartford Marina offers you the perfect location for mooring your narrowboat or cruiser. Situated on the River Great Ouse, with excellent travel links by road (A1 and A14) or rail to London, Cambridge and Peterborough, our marina offers the perfect blend of tranquility and convenience.
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We offer a superb range of services for our customers, from a well stocked chandlery and expert boat brokerage service to the onsite engineering services of Riverboat Solutions as well as a Pub and Restaurant – the Hartford Mill which provides beautiful views of this stunning marina complex.
Our location makes us the perfect access point to experience this superb stretch of river at it’s best, no matter whether it’s for a day, a month or a lifetime. If you’d like to know more about any of the services we offer, then please contact us to discuss how we can help you make your boating experience the best possible.
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Hartford Marina Review
Written by Jim Shead: First published in Waterways World May 2005
On the banks of the River Great Ouse, between St. Ives and Huntingdon, Hartford Marina was developed from a defunct gravel pit in the early 1960s by two developers called Scrivener and Rhodes. They were forward thinking businessmen who produced an attractive marina and were soon doing well selling Seamasters and Freemans cruisers which were so popular on the river at that time. The building that is now a large workshop was then a showroom full of new boats for sale. Yule Cato who owned two other marinas later bought the marina.
In the 1980s it became part of the MDL group, which was then run by Barry Perry. MDL had expanded from their base of coastal marinas to inland sites but later changed this policy and withdrew from the inland market. At this time (about 1986) Barry was departing from the company and as Hartford was his favourite marina in he bought it from MDL as a place to live and a business to run. Barry Perry developed the moorings, the chandlery and built the Hartford Harnser – a range of luxury wide beam riverboats from 36 to 46 feet long. He also introduced houseboats into the marina.
Scott Deverall is now the Managing Director responsible for the day to day operations while Barry Perry remains the major shareholder and takes an active interest in the development of the site, the houseboats and the land based housing development now underway. Scott has been at Hartford Marina for 12 years. He studied yacht manufacturing technology and marina management at Southampton where Barry was one of the course moderators who did exam marking and offered work placement places to students. Scott did about six months at Hartford on one of these placements around 1990 and got on very well with Barry who said if he had a position vacant he would be willing to offer Scott a job. Scott left college at a time when the marine industry was in recession and jobs were difficult to find. He was lucky enough to find a job selling boats on the south coast when one day he unexpectedly got a call from Barry offering him a job as Marina Manager. He was about to get married and as the offer included the opportunity of having the flat above the marina office he found both his work and housing problems were solved. About two years ago Scott was offered a share in the company and became Managing Director.
The marina is home to a very diverse collection of boats; cruisers, an increasing number of narrowboats, Dutch barges, wide beam steel boats, sailing dinghies and other small boats as well as houseboats. The houseboats are one of the more unusual aspects of the marina and stem from Barry Perry’s idea to use the marina’s ample mooring space and the observation that many people spend a lot of time just living on their boats and do relatively little cruising. Houseboats give much more living space and have mooring for a cruising boat alongside. Soon after the first houseboat was built and put into the water deposits were taken for six more, demonstrating that Barry’s concept was sound.
The marina has diesel, petrol, gas, pumpout, a growing chandlery, an expanding boat sales office, two toilet and shower blocks and a launderette. They are also one of the few inland marinas to offer broadband wireless access to the internet, in this case through Square Mile. They provide boat repair facilities, doing steelwork repairs but not major replating. They can lift boats up to 52 feet long using their flat bed trailer and for larger boats at present they bring in a crane but are developing a gantry system for lifting bigger craft. They also do fibreglass repairs and fitting-out. When I was there they were fitting out a wide beam steel boat bought from the New Boat Company as a sailaway. This work is done by Chris and Nigel Markwell who have long experience as boat builders and marine engineers and operate as sub-contractors working exclusively for the marina. Nigel does all the woodwork and Chris does the engineering, electrical and gas work.
The marina sells about 70 boats a year through their brokerage plus a range of new fibreglass cruisers from Quicksilver. They also sell small inflatable, plastic and aluminium boats. They are dealers for a number of engine manufactures to match the variety of boats using the marina; Mariner outboards, Nanni Diesel, Mercruiser, Shire and Yanmar Marine.
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Buckden Marina
Nestled in 92 acres of unspoilt tranquil Cambridgeshire countryside with the River Great Ouse on its eastern boundary, this marina is a delightful place to moor your narrowboat or cruiser. Situated on the A1 with good links to the M25 and A14, 20 minutes from Cambridge and an hour from London.
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Buckden Marina has 240 floating pontoon berths all behind security barriers with full services available to most.
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