Drying out in/near Portsmouth Harbour

[C08]

I need to scrub off the hulls and replace the engine impellor (outboard) on the first day of a 10 day sailing break. I have not used the boat in almost 2 years and the hull is very heavily fouled so I cannot easily go far before I do this.
I could use the hard at the harbour at Fareham but this is very muddy and there tends to be large blankets of seaweed there that drapes down the hull as it dries so it becomes a more unpleasant and difficult job than it should be. So I am looking for a beach somewhere close that dries to sand or shingle and suitable for scrubbing off and anti fouling. Bembridge or East head would be ideal but I do not want to go that far with such fouled hulls as i might only get 2 or 3 knots with all that weed and barnacles.
Any ideas?

 

[langstonelayabout]

Loads of ideas but only one recommendation: Hardway Sailing Club.

Scrubbing posts are £10 a tide and you'll need another £10 to use their pressure washer.

Really friendly club: their food and beer is good and shockingly low priced. Best book before you arrive though; the scrubbing posts booking book (!) is kept by the phone.

 

[C08]

Thanks for the Hardway suggestion but I would expect the scrubbing grid to be booked on a saturday in May. I will try an e mail to them though.

 

[DJE]

Wicormarine. Good scrubbing pad with power and water but a bit pricey.

 

[C08]

I wonder if the Wicor £40 tide to tide includes the pressure washer?

 

[prv]

Scrubbing posts are £10 a tide

The OP said "hulls", so I assume he has a catamaran (or tri) that can dry out on any flat surface and doesn't need posts. That gives him a lot more flexibility.

I don't know the top of the harbour all that well but I believe Portchester sailing club have a scrubbing berth?

Pete

 

[ashtead]

If the OP has hulls and wants a beach closer than Bembridge or East head then what's in Langstone?

 

[DJE]

He says hull and hulls?
Only a very small cat would fit on the pad at Wicor.

 

[chubby]

Ryde? dry out against the wall on hard sand?

 

[LadyInBed]

A year or so back, I put a list on my site: http://montymariner.co.uk/articles/
Any corrections or updates will be most welcome.

 

[langstonelayabout]

If the OP has hulls and wants a beach closer than Bembridge or East head then what's in Langstone?

Langstone?

Have often seen bilge keelers dried out on the sandy mud north east of the broken Mulberry. Check the weather first so that it will still be good when the tide returns.

 

[Lucky Duck]

A year or so back, I put a list on my site: http://montymariner.co.uk/articles/
Any corrections or updates will be most welcome.

According to the below there are now facilities up at Bucklers Hard

https://www.beaulieuriver.co.uk/news/harbour-master-update-december-2017/

 

[Pete7]

If the boat is a cat then just past Wickor boatyard there is a public car park next to the harbour. The shore at high tide is course gravel and quite sheltered. Or how about Burrow Island, again gravel at high tide.

 

[Fantasie 19]

If the OP has hulls and wants a beach closer than Bembridge or East head then what's in Langstone?

+1

Put it on the sand bar just north of the mulberry?

 

[Giblets]

+1

Put it on the sand bar just north of the mulberry?

Or on the shingle just behind the western Hayling Ferry landing pontoon - but I don't think there is any water or power there which the OP wants.

 

[Nina Lucia]

Portchester Sailing Club, easy and good place to do it

 

[LadyInBed]

According to the below there are now facilities up at Bucklers Hard

https://www.beaulieuriver.co.uk/news/harbour-master-update-december-2017/

Thanks, it's now on the JtD list.

 

[Roger52]

Going to follow the advice here and book Hardway for a clean but does anyone have any actual knowledge of what the drying height is. My chart shows about 2m but it looks much more very slightly to the north of the grid.

 

[langstonelayabout]

Going to follow the advice here and book Hardway for a clean but does anyone have any actual knowledge of what the drying height is. My chart shows about 2m but it looks much more very slightly to the north of the grid.

Not a clue, but on a 4.5m tide I always had loads of water under my 1.4m keel at high tide.

Great club: remember your money for meals and drinks

 

[DJE]

Going to follow the advice here and book Hardway for a clean but does anyone have any actual knowledge of what the drying height is. My chart shows about 2m but it looks much more very slightly to the north of the grid.

I did it once with 1.2m draft on a neap tide with water to spare. So 2m sounds about right.