Blakeney - Britains only free harbour ---?---

[dylanwinter]

not me

Hmmm. Was it you I saw between Blakeney and Wells yesterday around midday?

W.

I came around from great yarmouth on Tuesday - picked some rope around the prop - that started a nasty leak in the back end of the boat - spent wednesday sorting it out - I hope

then thursday hitched and busses and trained from Blakeney to Ludham

Then home thursday night - ran out of fresh socks

D

 

[Searush]

Free Moorings - Heswall on the Wirral, in the River Dee. Lay your own mooring in the channel or knock a few stakes into a creek for a mud berth. No harbour master to check you out or collect fees. can be a bit exposed to N/W'lies over the ebb however.

Red Wharf Bay, Anglesey probably also free.

 

[mtb]

Blakeney do charge

you'll find contact details posted at the shed, I asked some years ago if I could put in my own mooring to be told no and there are no frree moorings. Had I left my boat they would remove it
Perhaps you should check

cheers
Mick

 

[Searush]

you'll find contact details posted at the shed, I asked some years ago if I could put in my own mooring to be told no and there are no frree moorings. Had I left my boat they would remove it
Perhaps you should check

cheers
Mick

Local Fishermafia?

 

[Tommyrot]

I thought Blakeney was free, mate had a boat there a few (10?) years back for a couple of years and was charged nothing.
Will be on the lookout for the slug in the Wash, I'm just a bit further north at Saltfleet.

 

[Marmalade]

can you lie afloat in blakeney? is it dry-out only?

 

[dylanwinter]

saltfleet is on my list

my old seafarer went to saltfleet

looks like a great place to keep a boat

D

 

[Tommyrot]

looks like a great place to keep a boat

D

It's been a lot more relaxing than Boston.

Had a BBQ on the beach last week, sunburn, but no sailing.....

 

[dylanwinter]

not for the depth challenged

can you lie afloat in blakeney? is it dry-out only?

I would say that Blakeney is only for those that can take the mud

it was a pretty low tide on weds and I did not see anything there that was still floating

- although there are a few deeper places in the harbour - but the town quay dries out almost completely

lovely

D

 

[fergie_mac66]

The Hole

can you lie afloat in blakeney? is it dry-out only?

I would say that Blakeney is only for those that can take the mud

it was a pretty low tide on weds and I did not see anything there that was still floating

- although there are a few deeper places in the harbour - but the town quay dries out almost completely

lovely

D

Just round the corner as you go in there's ,or there was , the hole quite a big area about 4 to 7 foot deep but was comprehensively stuffed with boats !

 

[peteK]

Free moorings

Free Moorings - Heswall on the Wirral, in the River Dee. Lay your own mooring in the channel or knock a few stakes into a creek for a mud berth. No harbour master to check you out or collect fees. can be a bit exposed to N/W'lies over the ebb however.

Red Wharf Bay, Anglesey probably also free.

All free around Wirral ,Heswall/Thurstaston/West Kirby/Meols/Tranmere but Red Wharf Bay you have to pay.Around £80 depending on boat size.

 

[PilotWolf]

I checked on what I think was the right boat and she (and all the others there seem to be fine).

W.

 

[dylanwinter]

thanks

its the stained ugly sod

planning to move it to wainfleet later this week

work and weather willing

 

[jswindel]

How soft is the mud there? Would me 4ft 9in fin keel have any chance of sinking into it?

The general advice is keep out of the Frome if your draft is over 1.5m. Even then you may scrape the bottom at low water. I don't know what the bottom is like I'm afraid.

 

[fergie_mac66]

scrubbing sands

I would say that Blakeney is only for those that can take the mud

it was a pretty low tide on weds and I did not see anything there that was still floating

- although there are a few deeper places in the harbour - but the town quay dries out almost completely

lovely

D

The first time I went up to the quay at blakeney I had a very old pilot book It showed scrubbing sands just next to the quay high springs there was room so I chucked the anchor over wouldnt hold , lifted it , moved chucked it again still wouldnt hold .... Then a bloke shouted to me I wouldnt stay there its the carpark and theres a market tomoro morn

 

[dylanwinter]

I had a similar experience

I started sailing into the channel - and saw a line of posts that I assumed were marking the edge of the channle with small boats on the other side

then I hit the ropes that linked the posts to the boats - they owners haul the boats towards the shore and climb in

the real channle went down the other side of the boats

what a fool I was

know better now

Dylan