Best place to dry out

[Graham_Wright]

I have a weeping though-hull and would prefer not to suffer a lift out-in at £200 a throw to fix it.
I have often dried out at Ilfracombe but is there anywhere comparable further up channel?

 

[Birdseye]

there are drying out posts at both newport and chepstow, but I havent seen them used in some time.

 

[Graham_Wright]

there are drying out posts at both newport and chepstow, but I havent seen them used in some time.

I should have mentioned boat is a bilge keeler.

 

[sarabande]

Minehead.

http://www.mineheadharbour.co.uk/index.html


And Porlock is also good if you want to go through the lock for a couple of days.

https://www.visitsomerset.co.uk/explore-somerset/porlock-and-porlock-weir-p422163


I am not sure about Appledore/Bideford.

 

[Ladybirdgaffcutter]

Bideford dries and there is a wall.

 

[rotrax]

I have a weeping though-hull and would prefer not to suffer a lift out-in at £200 a throw to fix it.
I have often dried out at Ilfracombe but is there anywhere comparable further up channel?

Just paid our bill at the Evans Bay Boatyard here in Wellington NZ. 32 foot steel boat, lift, pressure wash, cradled, 3 weeks on the hard, free loan of ladder, work platforms, small compressor and free access to the scrap where suitable goodies like small good nick pieces of teak decking and marine ply were salvaged and re-used for jobs, relaunch.

About 275 quid at todays exchange rate.

I hate to think what it would have cost in Portsmouth-and the extras would have been on the bill!

 

[TOKOLOSHI]

We can offer Leaning Post access or on the slip for donation to our Club funds!:encouragement:

 

[Graham_Wright]

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We can offer Leaning Post access or on the slip for donation to our Club funds!:encouragement:

Should have read this before the pm!

Looks a bit like the Avon?

 

[TOKOLOSHI]

Should have read this before the pm!

Looks a bit like the Avon?

Should have recognized it if you helped build it!encouragement::encouragement::encouragement:

 

[Dutch01527]

Any thoughts on Penarth Beach, near the pier for a boat that can take the ground? Looks like flattish sand/gravel.

https://penarthnews.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/dsc05538.jpg

I have been considering this as it is close to Cardiff Bay mooring and I need to fit new anode and scrub bottom.

 

[oldmanofthehills]

Barry Old Harbour is nice and sandy. You dry outside the mole going in as far as you reasonably can, and I have several times done so to await tides and buy icecream ashore etc. Whats more its near Cardiff. Never dried out off Penarth

Avoid Minehead as muddy and nasty to walk through. Ilfracombe is better and I have used it for such tasks, Watermouth similar. Porlock is nice and its mud shallow but you need to watch boat does not catch the wharf step as it goes down.

PCC at Pill have a drying grid outside the clubhouse - I think it needs a 12.6 metre tide to get onto it. Again very muddy but at least its meant for the job

 

[Birdseye]

I should have mentioned boat is a bilge keeler.

Never done it myself but I wonder if the bottom in the old Barry harbour (ie the bay immediately downstream of the harbour entrance) would be hard enough. The drying out posts at NUSC have a concrete pad underneath. On a suitably calm day, it might be possible to dry out on Penarth beach.

 

[oldmanofthehills]

Never done it myself but I wonder if the bottom in the old Barry harbour (ie the bay immediately downstream of the harbour entrance) would be hard enough. The drying out posts at NUSC have a concrete pad underneath. On a suitably calm day, it might be possible to dry out on Penarth beach.

Dried out just outside the mole in Barry Old Harbour on various occasions, and good firm sand as coming from Uphill or River Avon we got there about half tide. A bit silted up to go past the mole except at high tide, but there are small mobos in there.

 

[Birdseye]

Any thoughts on Penarth Beach, near the pier for a boat that can take the ground? Looks like flattish sand/gravel.

walking the dog on there last weekend, it looked a possible to me

 

[chrishelen]

walking the dog on there last weekend, it looked a possible to me

I've dried out on Penarth beach. It's quite possible once you find a sandy bit at low tide. Opposite the cafe downstream was my choice, it was about 10 years ago. An irate official stopped me mid scrub to tell me beaching boats is prohibited, although I could not find any information in the local bylaws.

 

[Snoopy463]

Why not try Sully pool. If you want to dry out fully, miss the deep bit. After scrubbing walk ashore to the Captain’s Wife for a sherbert. Take an inflatable though, tide comes in a bit quick. Don’t know if the boozer is still open, haven’t done the Sully booze cruise challenge since I’ve had a fin keeler.