12 permanent pontoons have been installed, to attract hundreds of new seafaring visitors to the city each year. By bringing yachts and other boats to the Quayside this will help to reinvigorate the river Tyne where it flows through the heart of the city.
NE1's Newcastle City Marina has a combined length of over 130m, providing moorings for vessels up to 40 feet in length.
Each of the floating pontoons is 11 metres long and 2.5 metres wide with an attractive, low maintenance deck plus an access ramp from the pontoons up to the Quayside. As well as providing a dock for the boats, the pontoons will also provide water and electricity as part of the mooring fee.
By creating the marina, boats will be brought further up the Tyne into the heart of the city with visitors able to take advantage of the restaurants, bars and other attractions on Newcastle's iconic Quayside with only a short walk into the city centre.
NE1's Newcastle City Marina is an attractive new destination on the UK coastal map for boat and yacht enthusiasts. With only an hour's sailing from the mouth of the Tyne into the heart of the city, NE1 is confident that yachtsmen on around Britain trips will add Newcastle to their itinerary as a new stopping off point.
It has taken NE1 Ltd only six months to deliver the Newcastle City Marina from the initial concept through to installation and launch working closely with Newcastle City Council, who have co-funded the project, and the maritime engineering consultancy, Royal Haskoning.
Commenting on Newcastle City Marina, Adrian Waddell, Director
of Operations for Newcastle NE1 explained:
"We hope the Newcastle City Marina will help restore life and
vibrancy to a stretch of the river Tyne that has fallen out of
fashion with leisure boats, largely through a lack of any
facilities. Historically, the Tyne has been a commercial
thoroughfare for centuries but the city centre stretch has fallen
out of use; we are keen to bring new traffic and life back to the
Quayside and into the city centre.
"NE1 sees this as a unique opportunity and, having received widespread support, is strongly placed to implement the project quickly and in plenty of time for sailors and other boat owners to consider making a voyage up the Tyne as part of their Summer 2012 sailing plans"