Long-term moorings in Lymington

Moorings in Lymington are on the Lymington River in Hampshire, a short run from the Solent. The town has two large marinas, a dry berthing site and the harbour commissioners' own river moorings and pontoons, and the harbour entrance can be used at all states of tide.

Moorings in Lymington

• Lymington Yacht Haven: the first marina inside the river, run by Yacht Havens Group. 630 berths with power and water, a boatyard, and petrol and diesel at any hour.
• Berthon Lymington Marina: a family owned marina beside the Berthon shipyard on Bath Road, with approximately 300 berths. Its pontoons run from 30ft up to 120ft hammerheads.
• Haven Quay: Yacht Havens' dry berthing site, a minute's walk from the town, for RIBs and motorboats up to 10m. Boats are kept ashore on racks and launched on demand.
• Resident moorings: Lymington Harbour Commissioners license annual moorings for boats up to 10.5m to people who live permanently on the mainland within 7 miles of St Thomas Church in Lymington.
• Long Term Visitor moorings: licensed by the Commissioners month by month. A waiting list normally applies and local residents on the mooring list come first.
• Town Quay and Dan Bran pontoons: the Commissioners' walk ashore visitor berths. There are also fore and aft moorings along the river.

Resident moorings are allocated under the Commissioners' waiting list and allocation policy. In October 2026 they gave waits of between three months and more than 20 years, depending on the size of boat and the type and place of mooring.

On the water

Lymington Harbour Commissioners run the harbour. They are a trust port, constituted in 1951 as an independent statutory body with no shareholders.

• Access: the entrance is open at all states of tide. The main channel is kept at 2.5m below chart datum as far as the ferry terminal and 2.0m from there to Town Quay.
• Speed limit: 6 knots through the water inside harbour limits, with an advisory 4 knots above the timber wave screens that mark the entrance to the inner harbour.
• Ferries: give way to the ferry and other large vessels inside harbour limits, and keep to starboard.
• Above the town: Lymington River Bridge is fixed, so air draft is restricted for anything going further up.

The rest of the coast is covered on the Solent page.