Advice on a shallow swing mooring

[NormanS]

If you reckon that you'll have a metre under the keel at LAT, I don't see any problem, unless the site is ridiculously exposed, in which case, I wouldn't want to be there anyway.

 

[peteK]

The last few days was neap tides when it comes to spring tides it will dry by how much will depend on tidal range
In your locality.

 

[Stemar]

One metre over LAT. Add a bit of high pressure, you're down to, say, 70cm. You're probably OK up to 1m swell with a bit of margin, which doesn't feel like much to me. Personally, I wouldn't sleep well when the wind gets up.

 

[seafox67]

Thanks for all your advice... I'm going to get the mooring moved out a little

Cheers

 

[JumbleDuck]

Thanks for all your advice... I'm going to get the mooring moved out a little

I think that's sensible. You'll get a lot of peace of mind for a small investment.

 

[andsarkit]

When I was on the Exe, sand and mud, I always felt that 2m under the keel at LWS was my limit. While a bilge keel is designed to sit on the bottom the idea of it banging about for an hour or so each day did not appeal.

I was also on the Exe off Starcross for 12 years. The seabed was mud at my mooring. On a couple of the lowest tides of the year I would touch bottom with my encapsulated keel but with so many exposed sand banks around there was no fetch and no waves. I was never worried about low tides but the Exe is quite open and gets very lumpy at high tide in a gale.
It all depends on how exposed the mooring is so local knowledge is best.