Solent Area - List of Drying Posts / Places

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I've trawled through old YBW threads and put together a list of Drying Posts / Places.
Can you please check details (especially Lat/Long, as I pulled it from Google Earth) and add any info you would care to share like max draft, Elec/Water available and anywhere that I've missed, I would be grateful.

Lymington
Town Quay 50 45.54 N 001 32.18 W - two berths for scrubbing concrete
drying piles with wood base near the RLymYC. 50 45.25 N 001 31.69 W (Not sure of Lat/Long)
Contact HM:01590 672014.
Fareham
public quay alongside the Westerly Chandlery 50 50.87 N 001 10.71 W
Gosport
Hardway Sailing Club 50 48.80 N 001 08.03 W - has a concrete slip and piles up to 6ft draught at springs, about £20 per tide.
Hardway Marine 50 50.81 N 001 10.66 W


River Hamble
Drying piles at Warsash 50 51.12 N 001 18.43 W, just S of HM office. Ask Hamble HM 01489 576387 for details. - the bottom there is concrete.
Piles by the town quay moorings at Hamble are shingle. (I don't know where this is!)
Swanick
near the Jolly Sailor 50 52.92 N 001 18.26 W shingle. (between Jolly Sailor and Elephant Boatyard??)
RAFYC 50 51.5800 N 001 18.8000 W just N of ferry have two scrubbing bays with pressure washer - contact 023 8045 2208 (Office)
Southampton Sailing Club, Itchen 50 53.36 N 001 23.04 W - have a pair of scrubbing piles - contact 023 8044 6575
The public piles put in by Southampton Sailing Club are free to use but the depth is 4 foot 6inch at MHWS, so only suitable for shallow boats.


Chichester Hbr
East Head 50 47.35 N 000 54.68 W
Itchenor
By the Harbour Masters office (phone HM to book 01243 512301)
Two sets of posts, 50 48.4531 N 000 51.9364 W and 50 48.4356 N 000 51.9136 W with ladders and runner water - the western ones have power and water. Bottom firm, there's a ladder on one of the posts to get down and a water tap to use. You can hire a power hose for the boatyard.


Langstone Harbour - operated by the harbour board.
Sword Sands 50 48.64 N 001 00.89 W - W side of Langstone Channel. You can approach from (almost) any direction to allow the wind to blow you off as you refloat. Also benefits from some shelter and no swell or strong tides
Not free, but only the cost of an short/overnight stay
(from what I can see of Sword Sands on my chart, it's a S facing spit, so I guess that explains the comment 'You can approach from (almost) any direction')
Ship Inn 50 50.26 N 000 58.81 W, Piles with sandy bottom. Come into the harbour go past the lifeboat station and the Ferry landing pier on the West side of entrance. The piles are just to port on the beach.
Emsworth Quay 50 50.62 N 000 55.92 W (Not sure of Lat/Long)
Emsworth Yacht Harbour grid, 50 50.58 N 000 55.84 W (Not sure of Lat/Long, I assume that it's in the Yacht Harbour) (bookable)


IoW
Cowes
Town Quay, 50 45.78 N 001 17.81 W next to the Red Jet (Not sure of Lat/Long)
Newport
Quay 50 42.15 N 001 17.47 W - as far up as possible on shingle Electric on card (from HM), Water on tap.
 
Just in front of the harbour office compound, accessible past the northern end of the Folly Inn visitor pontoon, is a piled scrubbing berth. This is also available for use by non-members of the Association, although the fee does include temporary membership of the Association for insurance purposes. The berth can take yachts of up to 10 tonnes with a maximum draft of 6ft. This facility has to be pre-booked through the Bosun, and a booking form is available on the web site for printing.

Access is very much tide dependant depending upon the draught of the relevant boat. Water and power are available so high pressure washers can easily be used.

Please see the Current Charges*page for details of fees payable

To book, tel 07884 400046 or email follymoorings@hotmail.com
 
Don't forget the drying grid at Bosham in Chichester Harbour. Took a Moody 31 bilge keeler up there last year. Nice sheltered spot with power washer included in the price IIRC.

http://www.bglcompany.co.uk/bosham_harbour

The habourmaster, Michael McGrail, was one of the most helpful HM's that I have ever met.

You do need to call/email to book an slot though.

I have a few snaps of the drying hard if interested. PM if required.
 
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There are posts at Hamble slip to the right end of the quay and its pontoon, to the left of the Royal Southern YC.

Moor with the posts to stbd, ground is firm. I think they are free for 24 hours.
 
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River Hamble
South of Royal Southern YC. 50 51.50 N 001 18.76 W
Moor with the posts to stbd, ground is firm.
Could be free for 24 hours?
(are they controlled by Royal Southern YC?)
IoW
Folly Inn 50 44.0260 N 001 16.8800 W - piled scrubbing berth. Just in front of the harbour office compound, accessible past the northern end of the Folly Inn visitor pontoon. This is also available for use by non-members of the Association, although the fee does include temporary membership of the Association for insurance purposes.
The berth can take yachts of up to 10 tonnes with a maximum draft of 6ft.
Water and power are available so high pressure washers can easily be used.
This facility has to be pre-booked through the Bosun, and a booking form is available on the web site (web siteurl ?) for printing (see the Current Charges*page (same web site?) for details of fees payable).
To book, tel 07884 400046 or Email follymoorings@hotmail.com

Chichester Hbr
 Bosham Quay 50 49.68 N 000 51.62 W drying grid.
Nice sheltered spot with power washer included in the price.
Harbourmaster - Michael McGrail, very helpful
call / email to book a slot.
Telephone; 01243 573336
Email: office@boshamquay.co.uk
 
Can confirm Mike is very helpful at Bosham, have been taking Ronhilda there for 20 years now.

Another for Chichester is Dell Quay, at Springs the quay dries out, also has a hard to the north of the quay which I use, you just drive up the soft gravel after HW and put out a pulling off kedge anchor and warp. Tucked out of the prevailing wind and tide at the back. Problem here is you do not float off until late evening on Springs and the channel is not lit.

Itchenor also has big rings in the gravel ( or did) you can use to pull yourself off but people insisted on trying to launch dinghies over my lines and getting launching trollies snarled up. They also got annoyed when I went astern after the stern floated and my astern prop wash raised the water level and flooded their boots on the hard so I have not used this hard for some years now.
 
LadyInBed said:
Langstone Harbour[/B] - operated by the harbour board.
Sword Sands 50 48.64 N 001 00.89 W - W side of Langstone Channel. You can approach from (almost) any direction to allow the wind to blow you off as you refloat. Also benefits from some shelter and no swell or strong tides
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Bit puzzled by this one. Not been there for a few years, but as far as I remember it's just a somewhat windswept sandbank in the middle of the harbour. Seems like the odd one out in a list of dedicated drying-out facilities with piles, water, power, etc. Of course if your boat stands upright you can dry out on it (I have), but if you're going to list this then why not every other patch of sand or gravel that pokes above datum between Selsey Bill and Christchurch?

Pete
 
The river Hamble ones, near the Jolly Sailor.

I'm not aware of any between the Jolly Sailor and the elephant boatyard.

There are a set just downstream of the Jolly Sailor, maybe a hundred yards? They are in use on one of Dylans films when he goes up the Hamble if you want to see.
 
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The river Hamble ones, near the Jolly Sailor.

I'm not aware of any between the Jolly Sailor and the elephant boatyard.

There are a set just downstream of the Jolly Sailor, maybe a hundred yards? They are in use on one of Dylans films when he goes up the Hamble if you want to see.
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Swanick
SE of the Jolly Sailor 50 52.92 N 001 18.26 W - Posts on shingle.
 
Langstone harbour - as well as the posts just N of the ferry pontoon if you continue along channel to Southsea marina you will find a pair to your starboard at the bottom of the slipway to Locks sailing club. The ECA have recently installed a pair to the S of the PUBLIC slipway opposite their club but good luck to using those as their takeover of Langstone harbour continues apace.
 
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