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Have to say I wouldn't sleep to happily knowing my boat maybe banging up and down as the tide comes in but plenty let their boats do it so...
Ahem, there are such things as lift keelers too, which dry upright in mud and still sail well !
Yeah but you can get the keel jammed & maintenance is more of a problem?
Well the craning is just as any other boat.
Ahem, there are such things as lift keelers too, which dry upright in mud and still sail well !
With my previous boat I only had it hauled out the water in a yard once in the fifteen years I owned her & then only because I had a serious fault with the keels to repair.With my present boat I have no plans to ever have her hauled out the water if at all possible.
That's got to be a saving of at least a £1000 a year compared to what most people spend on their boats I reckon.
Agree, give me Southerly any time.
Agree, give me Southerly any time.
Am I correct in thinking that they too have now called in the administrators.................???
Zagato,
soft mud drying moorings are fine; indeed in my experience far preferable to deep water moorings...
For drying any boat of any keel configuration on a hard bottom like sand though I completely agree, horribly cruel !
Good opportunity to maybe make a modern 30' bilge keeler unless there is already one out there!?