Mucky In The Mud

[hlb]

They've taken the gate off Conwy marina again. Every ones sat in the mud, no water at all at low water. Still all the boats seem upright and just sunk in the mud.

 

[Hurricane]

I wonder what happens if you empty the bog. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[Lawsy]

How come it's off again? We were down last Friday & there was about 6 hours continuous access through the gate. What's happened now?

 

[hlb]

Daft as it seems, they apparently put the wrong sort of foam in the gate, which filled with water and made it to heavy to lift. So it had to come off again. Thats from there email anyway.

 

[jfm]

blimey, doesn't it bend your nice new shafts???

 

[mjkinch1]

Yes- same question as jfm - doesnt it bugger up the bottom of your boat? What about the Yachts on single keels?

 

[hlb]

Very alarming, but actually every boat seem so sink down in the mud, no matter how big the keel, all the yachts seem to stand up straight. We only had about six inch of water when we had a gate!!

But it advertises as five star marina. We cant flush the bog half the day and that was with the gate working.

Luckily there does not seem to be any damage going on. We shall see.

 

[MapisM]

No damage? Hard to tell I guess, with the boats still sitting in the mud.
I'd be as nervous as a cat on a hot brick... All the best anyway!

 

[longjohnsilver]

From experience when I dropped a pair of glasses into the mud at Exmouth and recovered them a week later, I discovered that the mud was quite caustic. Just in that week it had eaten away quite a bit of the frames which came as a real surprise.

I'd be looking carefully at all your underwater gear, don't want the same happening to your props , shafts etc! How are your anodes looking? Bit difficult to find a friendly local diver to pop in and take a look.

 

[Kawasaki]

Oh He'l probably chuck Me over the side with a bunch of anodes in Me pockets!

The place was origionally constructed/dredged out to build mulberry harbours for ww2.
Used again to make sections for the Conwy tunnel.
Speaking to Old Salts from the time.
The entrance then was futher North Eastish down river, they Say.

I think the entrance is in the wrong place and will always be a problem.

There does not seem to be such a degree of silting the other side in Deganwy.

May be the gate is the wrong design or something.
Haven't got a clue, don't know anything about such engineering.

If it is a gate snag.
Copy the one in Deganwy why don't they?

If that is not a fix.
It has to be the sighting of the entrance!

Anyway it's nice soft gooey stuff good for the Complection.

 

[Lawsy]

Has anybody yet tried to obtain a (partial) refund on our berthing fees? Or are we paying for the 'privilege' of mooring, not the actual access to the river? For all my problems with Liverpool Marina they did, at least, knock an amount (I think it was 10%) off the fees whilst their lock gate was under repair.
Also, despite what might have been implied in the earlier post, Kawasaki's complexion is beyond the help of even Conwy mud!

 

[hlb]

Some of the warps are like banjo strings, where the boat have stopped going down but the pontoons have not.

I wonder how the five star thingy is rated. Would have thought the first thing was, access all tides, not just a posh bog.