An alternative "Where's This Perfect Anchorage?"

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An alternative \"Where\'s This Perfect Anchorage?\"

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Re: An alternative \"Where\'s This Perfect Anchorage?\"

Now that's waht I call convenient. You couldn't get closer to the end of your garden could you?
Mind you, I think it might have been more sensible to have moved a few of those bricks first - and possibly have invested in an anchor as well . . .
 
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Quote: "You couldn't get closer to the end of your garden could you?"

House is a wee bit small but....oh how I do wish I lived that close, except not on that side, of the piece of water concerned. It gets a bit damp there in a W gale.
 
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"Traditional single Story Cottage For Sale"
"Fully renovated"
"Complete with Yacht on permanent Mooring"

The Estate Agents Blurb would say!
"With Panoramic views"
"An ideal opportunity to purchase a Marine residence with Private Docking fascilities"
Another one I like from Estate Agents.

"Early viewing reccomended"
Why?
Is there no one at Home in the Afternoon? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
 
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Probably unfair of me - but I was angling for more specificity based on the 2nd pic with a tower in it and lots of shallows - cos the tide goes out a fair distance there. But most with keels wouldn't go that far so probably not worth pursuing.

It's Newtownards, with Scrabo Tower on the hill.

My lifting keel was good for the lough where the bottom was muddy or briefly shallow, but couldn't cope with the rock & rubble associated with her final resting place. Ah well I got full insurance value and wasn't even charged the excess - guess who I'll be insuring my next boat with?

Lessons learned: don't moor in an exposed location with a too short mooring chain, allow lots of length to absorb the shock of waves & 70 mph winds in order to protect against chain snapping.
 
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Never by boat - recognised the tower (spent a couple of weeks working on the Ards peninsula in spring and travelled the loughside A20 several times so it seemed familiar).
Passed the entrance to Strangford a couple of times but usually on way to somewhere else.
 
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Yup, Bin there, done that - had the claim paid too (but not a right off as she was salvaged by a friendly longshoreman on the next tide)

Shallow water is about the worst to moor in (my probs were on R. Dee mud berth). Shallow water = short chain = high risk of snatching. My really stout S/S stem roller was bent at right angles before the strops broke. Shallow water also means very short steep waves - further aggravating snatching.
 
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