Pin mill moorings

[richardh10]

I have been offered a choice of deep water moorings at pin mill, and thought I would ask if anyone had any thoughts.

One is on the north side of the river opposite the pub, and the other is on the south side an 8(!) minute outboard ride on the pin mill side of the river.

Which one would the resident pin millers go for

Cheers

 

[sailorman]

I have been offered a choice of deep water moorings at pin mill, and thought I would ask if anyone had any thoughts.

One is on the north side of the river opposite the pub, and the other is on the south side an 8(!) minute outboard ride on the pin mill side of the river.

Which one would the resident pin millers go for

Cheers

Up or down river

 

[richardh10]

Ah yes! Up river

 

[sailorman]

That might be better due the the bend in the river. down towards Clamp Hse Is a long fetch & wind over tide can be lumpy

 

[Athene V30]

Am thinking of moving to a mooring at Pin Mill. But the potential of a long dinghy ride is putting me off.

 

[Leighb]

That must be pretty close to the No 6 buoy. I had my RHOD there for a few years, quite a nice spot, one down side is that being close to the channel you tend to get annoying wash from Mobos coming down from Ipswich. They often cut inside the buoy. Not a problem if you are not there at weekends though. It is also about the same distance from RHYC/Woolverstone should you have the opportunity to launch from that end.

 

[jerrytug]

Not actually resident, but a forumite kindly let me use his buoy near No 4 for a while, and I have also spent a few days on both sides opposite the Pub. Like Sailorman says, the inflatable dinghy ride to No4 was a trip in itself, sometimes needing full power, full oilies, everything in drysacs etc. I would imagine lots of wind-over-tide chop getting on board to one near No6 ?
I would go opposite the pub without hesitation, more interesting view (imo) and a good chance of someone noticing if anything is amiss with the boat.
cheers Jerry

 

[richardh10]

Yes, I am leaning that way. 8minutes seems a bit of a slog

Cheers

 

[Champagne Murphy]

We are at Pin Mill and we've found it pretty good. A pontoon it isn't but we know not to bother about 90 mins either side of LW and it just works. This year and last we loaded up for our summer cruise with two dinghy loads and it didn't take long at all. The dinghy ride is just part of the fun. No, really!

 

[chinita]

Am thinking of moving to a mooring at Pin Mill. But the potential of a long dinghy ride is putting me off.

It is certainly a lot more hassle than a B'Sea pontoon.

Parking your car, finding your tender, dragging it up the hard, taking the launching trolley back, lugging the o/b, going back to you car 'cos you have forgotten the rowlocks (as you don't have faith in your o/b), trying to start the o/b, getting soaked, smashing into your recently painted topsides..........and then wishing you had indulged in a bar meal and pint at the Butt before you left.

Having said that, IMO, the ability to just sniff the wind and cast off for a few hours sailing (or even drifting with the tide) at a moments notice is worth the effort.

 

[richardh10]

Parking your car, finding your tender, dragging it up the hard, taking the launching trolley back, lugging the o/b, going back to you car 'cos you have forgotten the rowlocks (as you don't have faith in your o/b), trying to start the o/b, getting soaked, smashing into your recently painted topside

.

Have you by any chance been watching me!

 

[Lodesman77]

If you seriously think that an 8 minute dinghy ride is a slog then Pin Mill is really not for you.

As said, the whole process of getting there and getting the dinghy ready to go is much more of a slog. And if you've just done it on a busy day with the place full of tourists the dinghy ride will seem a relief. And your stuff will get wet if you don't put it in drysacs and you do need oilies if it isn't a calm day.

 

[Charlotte Anne]

Leigh makes a good point - the upriver moorings might be no further from Woolverstone than Pin Mill.

If you can justify the membership on top then join RHYC to park the car and keep the dinghy there - logistics are much easier and the hammerhead of the club marina is used by a lot of us to load boats that we keep on moorings. I go out to get the boat, crew put the trolley away and unload the stuff from car into a trolley and meet me on the end of the marina for a quick stop.

 

[chinita]

Have you by any chance been watching me!

You must be the guy who keeps hiding my tender every time I go away.

 

[Champagne Murphy]

If you seriously think that an 8 minute dinghy ride is a slog then Pin Mill is really not for you.

As said, the whole process of getting there and getting the dinghy ready to go is much more of a slog. And if you've just done it on a busy day with the place full of tourists the dinghy ride will seem a relief. And your stuff will get wet if you don't put it in drysacs and you do need oilies if it isn't a calm day.

The dinghy issue is really not a big one. Within a very short time we developed a routine. The dinghy is stored at Pin Mill (free, chained to a support). I jump out of the car by the ramp while SWMBO goes closer to the water with the car, I bring the dinghy down (transom wheels) and the dinghy is loaded. She takes the car to the top yard while I launch the dinghy and when she returns we go. We find it no slower than it was when we were at RHYC and used the pontoons to launch from.
There is no easy way if you have a swinging mooring, that said its a heck of a lot cheaper and the mooring is peaceful.

 

[Lodesman77]

The dinghy issue is really not a big one. Within a very short time we developed a routine. The dinghy is stored at Pin Mill (free, chained to a support). I jump out of the car by the ramp while SWMBO goes closer to the water with the car, I bring the dinghy down (transom wheels) and the dinghy is loaded. She takes the car to the top yard while I launch the dinghy and when she returns we go. We find it no slower than it was when we were at RHYC and used the pontoons to launch from.
There is no easy way if you have a swinging mooring, that said its a heck of a lot cheaper and the mooring is peaceful.

I agree with you - I also have my dinghy in the racks on the common, and on a quiet day and with a high(ish) tide it works well. However, on a sunny weekend it's not so easy, especially the parking. As a PMSC member there are a few convenient spaces nearby I can use but when they're full it means parking a good way up the lane. And if the tide is out it's a good long walk up and down twice to launch the dinghy and then put the trolley back in the rack. It would be a little easier using transom wheels(and I have), but if the dinghy is heavily loaded a trolley is preferable. And as a single hander you don't have crew to share the work so it's going to take longer. By going at quiet times and working the tide you can mitigate the issues most of the time. But the nature of the place means it's more work than most to get you + kit from car to the boat.

I love being at Pin Mill and wouldn't want to be anywhere else, as I think is the case for most people there. But I reiterate my original point - If you think that an 8 minute dinghy ride is a slog then Pin Mill is really not for you.

 

[Athene V30]

I am trying to weigh up the 'stress' of getting a 27' long keel into a 35' gap on a pontoon with wind against tide, singlehanded, prop wash working the wrong way for the side to dictated by tide against the calm of picking up a mooring and then skulling ashore to my nearby car. OK I am living in a dream!

 

[richardh10]

I love being at Pin Mill and wouldn't want to be anywhere else, as I think is the case for most people there. But I reiterate my original point - If you think that an 8 minute dinghy ride is a slog then Pin Mill is really not for you.

I don't think I made myself clear.

I meant that an 8minute ride up river would be more of a slog than a 2 minute ride to the other side. Although thinking about it even that is not true. After all, if you are going to get wet, it will happen in about 8 seconds! Also I will hopefully be using an outboard and not rowing, so 8 minutes or 18 minutes is really neither here nor there.

It's not a question of whether or not to moor at Pin Mill. I'm coming! Maybe see you there sometime

Cheers

 

[sailorman]

I don't think I made myself clear.

I meant that an 8minute ride up river would be more of a slog than a 2 minute ride to the other side. Although thinking about it even that is not true. After all, if you are going to get wet, it will happen in about 8 seconds! Also I will hopefully be using an outboard and not rowing, so 8 minutes or 18 minutes is really neither here nor there.

It's not a question of whether or not to moor at Pin Mill. I'm coming! Maybe see you there sometime

Cheers

Drop in for a swifty up the Butt sometine

 

[richardh10]

Drop in for a swifty up the Butt sometine

I'll have to think long and hard about that!