Brighton Marina

Brighton, South East, United Kingdom

Brighton Marina is the newest addition to the Premier Marina's family. As the UK's No 1 marina village you will find everything you need for your boat as well as your holiday.

Brighton Marina, awarded the coveted 5 Gold Anchors Award in 1987, is the largest marina in the UK with 1300 berths. Easily accessible from London and the South East the marina offers extensive marine services, a lively yacht club, on site shopping, restaurants, an eight screen cinema and a David Lloyd fitness centre The development of further shops and a hotel with a casino on a site adjoining the marina is planned to commence later this year (2001).

Facilities

Marina facilities include an onsite Marine Trade Centre including a chandlery, rigging service, a shipwright, an engine supplier, a broker, a sail loft, a capstan manufacturer, and a marine electronics company.

There is also a property sales and letting agency and a general maintenance company. Neilson, who specialise in acitivity holidays, has a mountain bike hire and sales shop based in the marina.

In addition to the Marine Trade Centre the marina also offers boatyard services, new upgraded 24-hour diesel facilities, four star replacement and LPG, new electric consuls, and recent ablutions refurbishment.

Other facilities include 24 Hour access to the marina , 24 hour CCTV and security, a lifting dock, including a 60 ton travel hoist, mobile crane and boat mover for those wishing to take advantage of our full boat repair service or winter storage facilities.

There are also Toilets, showers, a launderette as well as bars and restaurants.

location

Brighton Marina is situated close to Brighton Race Course and the marina village. It can be easily reached by road as there is a free multi-storey carpark nearby, as well as the number 7 bus service running nearby every 15 minutes.

The nearest main line station is Brighton with regular connections to Chichester, Portsmouth and London. Tel 0845 7484950 for timetable and train information. In the summer months the local Volks Railway operates from the Palace Pier in Brighton and takes you to within a few hundred yards of the Marina. The service operates between 11.00am - 5.00pm and runs every 15 minutes (Easter to mid September), taking approx 15 minutes. Fares are ?1 for adults and 50p for children. This is the oldest operating electric railway in the world and has been in operation since 1895.

From the sea, although exposed to winds through South to East, Brighton Marina is fortunate in having no off-lying dangers in the way of sand or rocks. The approach is therefore straight-forward.

By day, the Marina is not difficult to identify, being located at the eastern end of the town at a point where the White Cliffs and Brighton seafront meet. A conspicuous white apartment block lies on the cliff road above the Marina.

At night, the breakwater lights can be lost in the general background lighting, although a high intensity lamp fitted to the sector Light (GP F1 W&R4 every 20 secs.) with a range of 10n.m. has greatly improved this. There are several racing bouys located off the Marina. The closest, a yellow spar bouy (F1.Y.4 sec.), is stationed two cables south of the harbour entrance. The sewer outfall off Portobello (F1.Y.5 sec.) is the only other lit bouy in the immediate area. However, a good look-out should be kept for unlit fishing bouys and markers which may be laid up to half a mile offshore. The two brighton piers carry fixed red lights.

Charts covering local areas are Admiralty 1652, Stanford 9 and Imray C9. Admiralty Chart No. 1991 gives Harbour Plans of Brighton, Littlehampton, Rye and Folkesone. The Marina is included in the Admiralty Pilot for the Dover Straits NP28 Chapter 3.

A 24 hour VHF radio watch (call sign 'Brighton Marina') is maintained on channels 16, 37 and 80. Preferably call on channel 37 if possible.

Other Details

The 80m entrance lies between the East and West Breakwater arms and is dredged to 2.0m at L.A.T., but storms tend to drive sand in to form a bank just South of the end of the East Breakwater and shoaling may occur in the entrance channel between dredges. If you are in doubt as to the up-to-date position, contact the Harbour Office for the latest surveyed depths. The natural beach 2m contour follows a line along the East Breakwater. In heavy weather the most used approach is from the South, thus avoiding much of the backlash from the breakwaters. The entrance channel is bouyed to the inner entrance which is marked by fixed red and green vertical lights.

When visibility in the Marina entrance is less than 1000 metres the fog horn (two every 30 sec.) sited on the southern end of the West Breakwater is activated.

Contact this marina

Brighton Marina
Brighton
Cornwall
BN2 5UG
Telephone: 01273 819919
01273 675082
brighton@premiermarinas.com
http://www.premiermarinas.com