Ran aground twice on Saturday!

[rogerroger]

Oh dear, talking my boat to it's winter home on Saturday and had no negotiate a tricky channel that dries at LW to the boat yard on Hayling Island.

Ran aground not once but twice! Echo sounder (NASA Target) doesn't read below a metre so in the shallows had no way of knowing whether we were in a comparatively comfortable 90 cm depth or a threatening 10cm ! Still, tide was rising (just, 15 mins before HW the second time) and managed to pull her off with a 4hp outboard in the tender.

What a way to end the season !!!

Roger Holden
www.first-magnitude.co.uk

 

[byron]

Mill Rithe?

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[rogerroger]

you guessed it!

Roger Holden
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[byron]

Thought so, the channel is deep where it is but shallow where it isn't - one has to see it at low tide to understand what I mean. It must be 30 years since I moored there. When I was last there all the stuff was still there from when it was an MTB base in WW2. Mill Rithe has one hell of a history dating way back to Roman Times. There used to be houseboats there which were converted MTBs barring one which was the ex-harbourmaster's launch (1940) from Portsmouth, that's now with me and being restored by Andy Pocock.

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[Guest]

Its a very nice feature of Chichester harbour. Spend some time at the yard watching asymmetric dinghies with daggerboards hit it during the winter series. Highly entertaining!!

 

[Guest]

How good it is to hear about minor mishaps. Thank goodness I'm not the only one to feel something rumbling underneath (going into Lymington!)
Is there anyone else out there who is not actually perfect?

 

[chrisc]

No the rest of us are perfect.

 

[charles_reed]

Speak for yourself

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[billmacfarlane]

Relax Roger , if there's anybody out there who hasn't bumped then they don't get out enough !!!!!!

 

[boatone]

Re: Mill Rythe

Had bever heard of the place til your post. henm last night had to give a talk in Hayling Island and found myself driving past the place! Co-incidence or what?
Didnt look very nice in the dark..........

boatone@boatsonthethames.co.uk

 

[rogerroger]

Re: Mill Rythe

what didn't look nice ? the boatyard ? or the sea entrance ??

The approach channel would be impossible in the dark I reckon unless you knew it very well...

Roger Holden
www.first-magnitude.co.uk

 

[hugh_nightingale]

Well, I USED to be conceited, but now I'm perfect.

 

[ArthurWood]

Re: Imperfect

Yep, ran aground three times in 12 mo a year or so ago. Each time had to be pulled off by Boat US tow boat. As I waited, I walked around the boat pretending I was cleaning the hull, but I don't think passing boaters were fooled. Fortunately I have unlimited towing insurance for $97/yr because those three tows would have cost $1200.