before you pay, you need to ask for a place to put your boat. Did you ask for it ?

(I heard it was quite a rare thing...)

http://etat.geneve.ch/dt/nature/a_votre_service-formulaires_pour_obtenir_echanger_place_amarrage_sont_disponibles_ligne-5270.html

Bertrand, 

Thanks for your reply, No I didn't ask yet but I'm not confined to Geneva. I don't mind being a little further up the lake.

If anyone has a boat on the lake I'd love to ask them about some of the basics and local rules and regs.

Thanks

Hello. Do consult www.anibis.ch, then "Nautisme", then "Places d'amarrages". Good luck.

Hi Gerry pls   www.check anibis.ch    as there is an english speaking person "boarder" (pseudo) advertising in Founex/Vaud.  Godd luck

Gerry,

It is frightfully expensive, but don't worry, you have between 5 and 10 years to save. That is the minimal length of the waiting lists. It will take you at least 5 if you are willing to moor really far from Geneva, and probably on the French ports like Evian or Thonon, or further out, and no less than 10 years closer to Geneva.

Then, you have to renew your application every year, as they deny you at the end of the year and require that you resubmit if you want to keep your place in the list. It must be to avoid the problem of so many people dying while waiting.

I have been waiting for 3 years already, used every trick I know, to no avail. For a 15 meter boat it is going to be much harder.

As for the rules and regulations, the swiss, are a real pain to deal with. I mean, with such dangers looking in the treacherous waters of Lac Leman, for God's sake.... It  may have to be with their being a landlocked country, I guess, so they must be really tough on those daring to take on the dangerous waters of their lakes.

Good luck. 

or you can go and buy a crappy boat that already has a place...

Might be the best idea yet. Do you know of anyone that has done this successfully ?? Thank you.

JR M,

Sounds like you know what you're talking about, would you be around sometime for a coffee and a chat. I'd really like to hear about local rules and regs.

Thanks.

Perhaps check possibility as per anibis # 3668788. Good luck.