Landmere Creek / Hamford Water Ground

DipperToo

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Hi,

We have anchored many times in Hamford Water (thick sticky mud!) but today at the start of Landmere Creek (just before you get to the mooring buoys) the anchor failed to dig in despite 5 goes. It just seemed to drag fairly rapidly! Interestingly, it came up with almost no mud on it. Is there a patch of ground around there with known poor holding? (It was blowing >20Knots at the time)

Put out 5x depth and 6x depth of all chain scope with a 35LB Delta - first time I have had it fail to dig in.

Anyone else experienced the same?
 
DipperToo said:
Hi,

We have anchored many times in Hamford Water (thick sticky mud!) but today at the start of Landmere Creek (just before you get to the mooring buoys) the anchor failed to dig in despite 5 goes. It just seemed to drag fairly rapidly! Interestingly, it came up with almost no mud on it. Is there a patch of ground around there with known poor holding? (It was blowing >20Knots at the time)

Put out 5x depth and 6x depth of all chain scope with a 35LB Delta - first time I have had it fail to dig in.

Anyone else experienced the same?
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Pipe weed ????
 
We anchored there three weeks ago and on the first drop we dragged immediately, no matter the scope. We moved a couple of hundred yards and we held fast all night. I checked East Coast Rivers and it mentions clumps of Pipe Weed. Nice in some way, either hold fast or not at all!
 
Thanks all - looks like its pipe weed then. I have annotated my chart as this is quite a 'large' area about 150yds down from the fixed moorings and probably 50-100 yards in all directions from there. Reassured that Lazy Kipper reports the same.

It demonstrates that even in benign weather the importance of checking the anchor is well dug in just in case the weather changes for the worse.
 
DipperToo said:
Thanks all - looks like its pipe weed then. I have annotated my chart as this is quite a 'large' area about 150yds down from the fixed moorings and probably 50-100 yards in all directions from there. Reassured that Lazy Kipper reports the same.

It demonstrates that even in benign weather the importance of checking the anchor is well dug in just in case the weather changes for the worse.
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Shooda used a Bruce :D
 
In our "summer of anchoring shame" (August 2011) we also had difficulties the first time we tried there, took about 5 or 6 goes before we got dug in. I assumed it was weed, we dragged a bit up off the bottom so kept persevering. Once we found a clear spot we dug in ok and didn't shift for a couple of days even though it was blowing old boots (CQR and all chain).
 
Thanks all for the confirmation of pipeweed!

I gave up after 4 tries to get the anchor to 'dig in' but each time I recovered it there was virtually no weed or mud so it must have been just skimming along the bottom.

Yes, dropping back a couple of hundred yards did find good holding - as evidenced by the copious black ooze that came up with the chain and anchor. Very glad I fitted a seawater high pressure wash down pump and outlet up forward!
 
Very low at the beginning of Landemere Creek last night, mud revealing itself almost all across the channel.

Everytime I've anchored there before always found a deep spot - but just couldn't find it yesterday evening.
 
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