Rye harbour

[Cmh]

I recently visited Rye harbour in East Sussex be it via land and saw a big old Moody 419 (or bigger) sat in the mud. It was a Bill Dixon design with the dark and light blue hull stripe. I know the mud will easily support the hulls weight when the tide is out as it I am 99.9%sure it would be a fin keel. Are there any other forummers who have Rye or a similar drying harbour as there home port? Please add Pics if you do

Thanks Cmh

 

[Cantata]

Not sure why you are asking but I keep my boat in a mud berth as do 1000's of others on the East Coast and elsewhere.
By the way although most Moody 419's have a fin keel, there was a centreboard option as well.

 

[Seajet]

Cmh,

loads of people on these forums have boats on drying moorings, usually in soft mud.

Don't be confused;

I think most people - like me - people say that a ' drying / half tide mooring ' is one ( ON mud ) we can sail to & from say half the time the tide is in or out - which works out fine.

More usually in my experience a ' mud mooring ' is a sort of dug out ditch, on the South as well as East English coasts, where one can lay up a boat over winter - a lot of us have done this happily even with deep fin keelers.

Often the boat herself digs out the ditch as the keel settles in - but she may only be moveable to & fro at highish tides.

So if you want to know if a particular boat type will suit in a certain harbour, to operate from or just lay a boat up, please define those...

Not trying to be awkward but these things need to be known before anyone can help.

 

[Gwylan]

We have skulked up the river in Rye for several years now and then sneaked off to spend the summer further afield.

Sadly the pictures all seem to be taken in the middle of the night and reflect the fact that I can misjudge the time on the tide and run out of water. Off to find them

 

[prv]

Our old boat was good for drying out - a traditional long keel, with a pair of small bilge fins each side which kept her upright. Then we switched to something less suited - she's fairly lightweight, with a deep, narrow, iron fin. The yard claimed that if we moved to their deepest berth, we'd be afloat full-time.

Not so much, in fact:

It's a bit dramatic, but it doesn't do her any harm. The dynamic loads of crashing to windward in a big sea will be far higher.

Pete