the gut at the bottom of the Hamble

[dylanwinter]

what is the bottom like in there?

there seems to be some sort of channel - but can we put Harmony aground and walk ashore

http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Tour-Guide_2014-04-30_14-23-56.jpg

Hamble rules say that i can anchor below number 9 so it should be legal

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[burgundyben]

There's not a lot of room in there.

 

[rwoofer]

I never thought of mooring in there. I might give it a go one day as I only draw 30cm.

 

[Searush]

There's not a lot of room in there.

Moored fore & aft he won't need much room & there won't be much current in there will there? Perhaps a couple of lines ashore tied to a small buoy with a light weight to hold it in place for pick up & an anchor dropped astern on the run in?

I'd expect it to be silt & mud in the wet bit with stones and/ or harder sand by the banks, but I don't know the place at all, it's just that there won't be any scour to remove the silt that comes in on the flood & precipitates out at high water & there has to be something more substantial to the dry bits or they would have washed/ eroded away.

 

[Seajet]

Searush,

you may have raised another point; the Hamble has a lot of industrial history, might be worth a recce in a dinghy first to find what's on the seabed and why isn't a prime bit of water - where anything is super-developed and every inch used for moorings or berths - not ?!

 

[burgundyben]

an anchor dropped astern on the run in?

That's exaclty what I'd do, then drop one over the front and come aft a bit to set them.

 

[ianat182]

The short answer is No to the walkashore; the entrance shown is not really Viable for anchoring and the channel Is very narrow with steep sIdes for anchoring probably mostly Shingle the closer into the beach Inside.The entrance Is close to the. Concrete Jetty and canbe smelly there from an outfall inshore.

Ianat182