PetiteFleur
Well-Known Member
So, we had picked up a mooring at Wrabness last Wednesday evening about 1800.
A little breeze but calm. Had supper and settled down to a game of Scrabble with the grandchildren. About 2100 heard a little knocking on the hull and decided it was the dinghy but a minute or so later a much larger noise so went on deck to investigate. It was dark so it took a few seconds to notice that my dinghy was wallowing and completely swamped and only kept afloat with the buoyancy fore & aft.
No idea how it filled so I bailed it out and decided I had a leak so tied it alongside the boat with a painter fore & aft. However the next morning it was full again! Bailed it out again and proceded to Walton Backwaters with it tied hard up against the transom and no water came in. Anchored at Stone Point for a couple of hours for lunch and rowed ashore without any problems - no water in the dinghy even with 4 people aboard.
Carried on to Titchmarsh and again tied the dinghy to the pontoon fore and aft and again bone dry in the morning. Towed back to the Deben and went ashore - again no obvious sign of a leak.
So I'm stumped - do I have a very elusive leak or was it a strange combination of tide/wind which somehow filled the dinghy(twice) or is Wrabness bewitched? Has anyone else had this happen?
A little breeze but calm. Had supper and settled down to a game of Scrabble with the grandchildren. About 2100 heard a little knocking on the hull and decided it was the dinghy but a minute or so later a much larger noise so went on deck to investigate. It was dark so it took a few seconds to notice that my dinghy was wallowing and completely swamped and only kept afloat with the buoyancy fore & aft.
No idea how it filled so I bailed it out and decided I had a leak so tied it alongside the boat with a painter fore & aft. However the next morning it was full again! Bailed it out again and proceded to Walton Backwaters with it tied hard up against the transom and no water came in. Anchored at Stone Point for a couple of hours for lunch and rowed ashore without any problems - no water in the dinghy even with 4 people aboard.
Carried on to Titchmarsh and again tied the dinghy to the pontoon fore and aft and again bone dry in the morning. Towed back to the Deben and went ashore - again no obvious sign of a leak.
So I'm stumped - do I have a very elusive leak or was it a strange combination of tide/wind which somehow filled the dinghy(twice) or is Wrabness bewitched? Has anyone else had this happen?
