Moorings on the Lymington River

The Lymington River drains part of the New Forest and runs south from Brockenhurst to the western Solent at Lymington. Its lower reach forms Lymington Harbour, which is managed by Lymington Harbour Commissioners and is both a yachting centre and a commercial port: Wightlink car ferries run from Lymington to Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight.

The harbour can be entered by day or night and at any state of tide by boats drawing up to about 2.5 m. Boat owners share the channel with the ferries, whose movements help scour silt that builds up behind a causeway built across the estuary north of the town in 1731. The river's reedbeds are a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Moorings on the Lymington River include Lymington Yacht Haven, the first marina reached on entering, and Berthon Lymington Marina. Lymington Harbour Commissioners let their own moorings on annual, long-term visitor and visitor terms, and run walk-ashore visitor pontoons including the Town Quay and Dan Bran pontoons. The Commissioners also provide drying grids, drying-out berths at the Town Quay slipway and a public slipway at Bath Road.