Hamble Anodes

[martinwoolwich]

Dumb question from a newbie.

1) Is the river Hamble (at Mercury Yacht Harbour) salt or fresh water?

2) If fresh water, but my boating will be typically sea, should I be fitting fresh water or sea water anodes?

Presumably if the Hamble is fresh water, the boat will spend much more time moored up than actually cruising (sad but true) and so fresh water anodes would be the best bet?

 

[Solitaire]

Dunm question indeed! The Hamble is wide open to the Solent and is tidal. It is seawater and therefore you will need seawater anodes. It is only when you go further up river it changes but you can't get far anyway. You can buy a chart and see that parts of Mercury dry out. You can read a chart?

 

[PaulJ]

It was not a dumb quetion. The guy said that he was a "newbie" and therefore short on experience. The question shows that he has done a bit of homework but perhaps not quite enough yet.... which is why he asked! Answers like yours simply discourage people from asking questions. Oh - and you spell dumb D.U.M.B. and not dunm.....

As a matter of interest, last week I visited a friend who has just bought a place on the Tamar. I asked him if it was salt or fresh water where he is and he said it was salt. When I dipped my finger in, it was fresh water. Mercury will almost certainly be salt but a bit further up it may well depend on the state of the tide.

 

[Shanty]

Well said Paul.
IMHO this forum exists mainly to enable folk to help one another. Without questions, how can we find the answers?

 

[oldsaltoz]

Don’t forget salt water has a higher density than fresh water, therefore the fresh water will be on the surface, so the wet finger test is not conclusive.
Lash a jam jar to your boat hook after making a small hole in the lid, push under to about your draft and wait till the bubbles stop, taste this.

 

[LadyInBed]

Good Thinking - nm

 

[LadyInBed]

Pitty you couldn't be as constructive as Brian.

 

[Mr Cassandra]

ReDumb Questions

Hi
I have been using this forum for Months But what the hell does IMHO stand for?
Please Solitaire do not answer cheers bob t

Bob T

 

[billskip]

Re: ReDumb Questions

In My Humble Opinion Bob IMHO means In Middlesex Hospital Outpatients..<G>

Bill
www.aegeansailing.co.uk

www.macsyachting.com

 

[wrr]

The pea-green water is undoubtedly salty as far as the M27 bridge and requires zinc anodes and extra-strength antifoul on the hull, which alas, does not repel some forum responses. However, the salinity is not quite as high as the mud-brown Solent water, as the water's edge froze at Badnam Creek this winter!

 

[burgundyben]

I beleive that fresh water runs into badman creek right at the very top near the railway line so maybe thats why it froze, I remember badman creek freezing completley one winter about 15 years ago, I walked on it, eek, foolishness of childhood.

All of hamble is salt water, at very top it splits into two, one bit goes to horse and jockey and Curdridge (you can get to with a dinghy and outboard, nice thing to do if very windy so not going out to solent and high water bout lunch time) other to botley mill, its all tidal hence IMHO (in middlesex hospital outpatients) all salt water, my boat is up above moodys and I use zinc anode.

I've been on Hamble river 20 years and know it really well if any one wants a guided tour send me a PM and I'd be glad to oblige.




burgundyben, coolest of men, by all I'm called, cool burgundyben.

 

[Col]

Horse + jockey, where the "whale" was found?
We got up there in a 29ft boat ( nearly didn't get back mind ! )
I think we were lucky as it's very shallow / narrow.

 

[ccscott49]

15 years ago you were a chlid! Come on Burguindyben, who you trying to kid, Pauline doesn't read this forum! tee hee.

 

[LORDNELSON]

I would not recommend tasting Hamble water, it has, I think, a high proportion of sewage in it. Whilst there is no doubt that the water is saline near Mercury, it would be best to check for salinity with a meter.

 

[LadyInBed]

Re: Dumb Questions

I'm not the Umble type, but thats beside the point. I still haven't worked out what the initials stand for when referring to what I believe to be the 'Significant Other'. Put me out of my misery!

 

[burgundyben]

I\'m 30.

I am 30, hence was a kid 15 years ago, with a mirror dinghy, then a hornet, then laser two.

Err, think i might be a child still, I just have bigger more expensive toys, still make gurgling noises with staws in empty milkshake glasses, still think its funny to fart etc, etc


Only 4 days to go and back in UK, woo hoo.

burgundyben, coolest of men, by all I'm called, cool burgundyben.

 

[burgundyben]

Not sure

I thing whale/dolphin/porpoise/shark/extra big fish thing might have been found at botley mill as opposed to H and J, not too sure, wont gonna worry either but might use is as an excuse to visit bugle in botley and h and j one day soon.

29 ft boat that far up? good effort. I have seen one of those badnam launches up there, otherwise all dinghys and canoes.

burgundyben, coolest of men, by all I'm called, cool burgundyben.

 

[Mr Cassandra]

Re: ReDumb Questions

AS i have never been Humble did not know that one .cheers Bob t

Bob T

 

[LadyInBed]

and still a mere wippersnapper! nm

 

[ccscott49]

Re: and still a mere wippersnapper! nm

Wish I could say the same!!