HALCYON 27 Mud Berth Blackwater

[Mariner69]

Does anybody know whether a Halcyon 27 will sit confortably in the mud at low water in a drying mud berth on the Blackwater at the Colliers Reach end, BSC area?

I heard somebody once say that the long keel yachts have more problems than the fin keelers where the keel slices into the mud. In the same conversation they said that Folk Boats suffered terribly since they lay on their sides and the weight of the hull was badly distributed.

What does the team think?

 

[Hunson]

Our Sonata is a fin keel. We are on fore and aft moorings outside the Basin.

She just sinks gently into the gloop. John just outside of us has a folk boat and he is usually about 75% upright. Occasionally he is slightly more heeled over and I think once in the past two seasons I have seen him at about 45 degrees. But we are parked on the mud slope down to the deep channel.

I don't see that you would have too much problem down that end same gloop. Though being swinging moorings may make some difference as to wether you are upright or at a slight angle as you drift with the wind and tide.

Just my limited opinion from parking just up river. Plus just reread your post and seen that you are long keel and not fin.

 

[tillergirl]

Frankly it depends exactly where you are. It is quite hard in places down by the BSC although it is a few years since I walked out there. However, it is possible, fr example to walk out in ordinary wellingtons round about mid way between the last of the houses and the Club. You can walk out at LW springs right out into the middle and then up some pretty hard stuff in the middle. The thickest mud is up round either side of the lock. TG used to live on a Stebbens mooring near the kids barge and there the mud was deep enough to let her sit completely upright (long keel). As I recall, most of the outer moorings around the BSC are pretty hard ground and you will sit over.

 

[Hunson]

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The thickest mud is up round either side of the lock.

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I hope you mean thick as in deep thick. Last time I was out on the mud I had only stepped off the HBSA dinghy pontoon and went in over my knees. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

It is the only time that I have thought oh Sh)t what have I done. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[tillergirl]

Umm yes. Funny that about mud. Seem to recall someone needed a helicopter down by Hilly Pool Point once.