When is a Marina not a Marina?

[Nick]

This is Marina

[Burst Boiler]

In Australia, a marina wasn't always a marina. For a period of time it was known as the Morris 1700.

The Ital was also a marina that wasn't a marina on the grounds that it had a facelift.

[Burst Boiler]

In other news, Welcome Anchorages doesn't really have anchorages. But it does have marinas. If you used an old Morris marina engine block to secure your mooring, could you legitimately call your mooring a marina?

[cpedw]

In other news, Welcome Anchorages doesn't really have anchorages. But it does have marinas.

Will there be a new edition for 2022? If so, how will it describe Lochmaddy?

[Burst Boiler]

I imagine it will have wildly out of date info, including the Kilchattan Bay (Bute) moorings (long gone), for the hotel there (long closed). For Maddy, it will be whatever it was called in the 2018 edition. Despite me poking fun at it, I do actually like WA a lot. The format is great and new stuff is always right, just that old stuff never gets revised.

[steveyates]

There you go then,
FROM THE OED
marina | məˈriːnə |
noun
a specially designed harbour with moorings for pleasure yachts and small boats

Says feck all about shelter, just a place to park your boat.
Seems a perfectly reasonable description to me.

Of course, in parking said boat the hoary old salt will have looked at the weather forecast, the chart and the physical marina before deciding if his expensive toy can be safely abandoned while he goes to the pub to get blootered.

[Nick]

.

Bruce of the famous Bruce's Yard in Faro, Algarve is not allowed to create a marina because the Ria Formosa is a protected area.

So he is creating a 'floating storage area'.