Mooring, navigation, licences and other fees at Bristol Harbour.

Annual mooring charges per metre

  • Live aboard mooring: £355.90
  • Pontoon mooring: £273.75
  • Non pontoon mooring: £164.25
  • Winter mooring (October to March): £191.65
  • Dedicated electricity supply (usage charges apply) VAT exempt: £109.50

Annual storage charges

  • Dinghy park: £383.25
  • Racking: £273.75
  • Dutch barn: £438

Short term charges per metre

  • 24 hours licence: £3.30
  • 48 hours licence: £5.70
  • 7 day licence: £11.05
  • 24 hours, manually propelled licence (leisure or private) for kayaks, canoes, stand up paddleboards, rowing boats and sailing dinghies: £10.95
  • 24 hours, commercial visitor licence: £10.95
  • Multilhulls: price on application 

Navigation only fees: per craft (no access to shower facilities)

  • 24 hours, manually propelled licence (leisure or private) for kayaks, canoes, stand up paddleboards, rowing boats and sailing dinghies): £10.95
  • Annual, manually propelled vessel licence (leisure or private): £54.75 (less than 4 metres)
  • Annual, powered craft (leisure or private): £54.75 per metre
  • Annual lease for mooring craft that are berthed at Underfall Yard: £227.20

Navigation only fees: commercial

  • Annual, manually propelled craft (commercial): £164.25
  • Annual, powered craft (commercial): £164.25 per metre
  • 24 hours commercial visitor licence: £10.95 per metre 

Commercial passenger operators

  • Annual operating charge: £1,095 per boat
  • Passenger carrying charge: 22p per passenger trip
  • Small passenger boat: £547.50 (12 people or less) 

Administration services

  • Replacement of lost or damaged licence: £32.85
  • Replacement of car parking permit: £32.85
  • Refund of licence: £109.50
  • Mailing services: £109.50
  • Late submission of events, notice to mariners: £219
  • Diving and hot-work permits: £219

Miscellaneous charges

  • Sanitary pump out tokens: £12.05
  • Laundry token: £8.80
  • Use of shower facilities (non-commercial): £2.75
  • Use of shower facilities (commercial): price on application
  • Commercial towage (per hour and per tug): £273.75
  • Hire of harbour vessel with crew: £273.75 per hour
  • Boat lift at Underfall Yard (maximum weight of 2 tonnes): £273.75
  • Hire of flatter: £109.50 per day
  • Hire of flater (transport fee): £273.75 

Attendance on impounded craft

  • Storage charge per week, or part of week: £109.50
  • Towing charge for craft: £273.75 

Working craft licence fees

Barges, lighters and trows: per operation

  • Not exceeding 60 tonnes: £136.90
  • Not exceeding 100 tonnes: £164.25
  • Not exceeding 250 tonnes: £273.75
  • Every extra 250 tonnes in excess of 250 tonnes: £273.75

Tugs used for towing vessels to, from or in any part of the Harbour

  • Annual licence: £2,737.50
  • Mooring only: £328.50 per metre 

Flatters or rafts (superficial area)

  • Annual charge, per square metre: £219
  • Weekly charge, per square metre: £27.40

Vessel and cargo charges

  • Schedule of tonnage dues and berth charges on all vessels other than "craft" as defined in the Bristol Corporation Act 1961: £2.20
  • Project cargo: price on application 
  • Pilotage fees (per movement): £273.75 

Pontoon hire: marina type, 11.1 metres

  • Per day, up to 7 days: £32.85
  • Every day after, per day: £65.70 

Bridge swings and lifts

  • Lifting of Redcliffe Bridge: £547.50
  • Prince Street Bridge Swing (commercial only): £54.75
  • Plimsoll Bridge Swing (commercial only): £54.75
  • Junction Bride Swing (commercial only): £54.75