Dredging club mooring areas.

[kds]

We are having increasing problems finding someone to dredge an area in the river Brue for us.
Have any other clubs had success ?
Do you know an operator reasonably local - East end of Bristol Channel - who might travel to Burnham on sea ? The last quote we got was £1500 just to travel to us.
Any ideas would be welcome.
ken
BOSMB&SC

 

[Csail]

For a commercial vessel that sounds reasonable to me.

 

[kds]

Would you have a company in mind ?
ken

 

[Csail]

Would you have a company in mind ?
ken

Well......No , but if it was my club or marina i would just buy something like this.... http://www.piranhapumps.com/mini_dredges.html
Ok initially its expensive but while the staff are quiet just send them out and dredge. It would pay for its self.

 

[Csail]

Dredging

Ps. you could hire it to places like Watchet too?

 

[Pigpen]

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but while the staff are quiet just send them out and dredge.
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LoL!

Ken
As an aside - is it any part of your satpic/approach chart?
Doug/JEKEEDA II at CBYC

 

[graham]

Dredging

We are having increasing problems finding someone to dredge an area in the river Brue for us.
Have any other clubs had success ?
Do you know an operator reasonably local - East end of Bristol Channel - who might travel to Burnham on sea ? The last quote we got was £1500 just to travel to us.
Any ideas would be welcome.
ken
BOSMB&SC

Sorry to hear you are struggling to keep the silt down.Larkhams based at chepstow would probably do it.I have no idea what the cost would be though.

When I visited BoS last June some of your guys were having a go with the propellor wash from the old pilot boat.Seemed to work well at cleaning out under the pontoons.

 

[kds]

I am afraid that our staff are always quiet - very quiet ! We are a small, self-help club.
We have used (and continue to use ), several methods over the years, but the rate of silt deposit takes some keeping-up with ! Hence we try to get something much bigger in every few years.
Our last contractor moved to the South Coast.
Thanks for the replies.
Pigpen - we have not been out to look carefully at the approaches since "the big storm" last week - but there doesn't seem to be any major change to the approach.
ken