drying out pole fixing to steel hull

[fisherman]

Vyv,

no misconception and I'm surprised you as an engineer don't see the obvious problems of a yacht with legs either falling on one side through wind / tide pressure, or a leg foot sinking in due to uneven mud, and most mud I know is pretty uneven...

If on hard sand, the pounding just as the tide recedes or floods will be merciless on the boat.

This is why we have legs slightly short, 2in usually, after ranging about in any swell the boat settles on its keel first, then leans on a leg. Same reason for having only one bolt, the leg can move slightly.

 

[fisherman]

This is why we have legs slightly short, 2in usually, after ranging about in any swell the boat settles on its keel first, then leans on a leg. Same reason for having only one bolt, the leg can move slightly.

Aha, just realised this is where all concern about potential for damage may be: if you fix them too rigidly something's gonna give. When I bought the boat it had two bolts per leg and they split the first time I used them, previous owner had been in soft mud and quiet water only. So, single bolt and lines fore and aft.

 

[vyv_cox]

Vyv,

no misconception and I'm surprised you as an engineer don't see the obvious problems of a yacht with legs either falling on one side through wind / tide pressure, or a leg foot sinking in due to uneven mud, and most mud I know is pretty uneven...

If on hard sand, the pounding just as the tide recedes or floods will be merciless on the boat.

A problem that doesn't exist, in my experience of using them 20 - 30 times. This is probably the question that Yacht Legs Co hear most frequently but they assured me that they knew of no cases. That was more than 25 years ago so things might have changed but somehow I doubt it.

If pounding is a problem you have anchored in the wrong place. The reality is that it never fails to be an anti-climax. We are sitting there waiting for the keel to touch bottom when we realise that the water level is half way down the rudder.

 

[Seajet]

Vyv,

the only possible reply to that is ' Good Luck ' !

 

[fisherman]

Vyv,

integral grounding legs housed in tubes from bottom to deckhead- like scaffolding poles - let down from on deck.


Drying legs might be fine on a chunky work boat, but not so good news for the average yacht...

Certainly, a chunky workboat, an Aquabelle 32 fitted with just such legs sank when either ranging in ground sea or driving down onto the mud caused complete failure of the leg mounting in the hull.

 

[JumbleDuck]

Certainly, a chunky workboat, an Aquabelle 32 fitted with just such legs sank when either ranging in ground sea or driving down onto the mud caused complete failure of the leg mounting in the hull.

My boat, before I owned her, lived for many years on drying moorings on the East Coast and in Milford Haven, supported by a pair of YLC legs. I had the bottom surface of the (long, encapsulated) keel resurfaced after I bought her, but apart from that she seems to have survived fine. I don't have the legs on board at the moment, as there isn't much need for them on the West Coast of Scotland, but I wouldn't be worried about using them if the opportunity arose.