YM looking for Blackwater yachtsmen

Wouldnt it be nice to encourage mags like YM to cover East Coast type stories? I've found it very interesting that the different magazines appear to be reversing their usual roles - YM are running a lot more articles about "ordinary" boats and sailors, and had a Centaur on the cover this month, while Sailing Today have got a 57 footer on the cover of the Feb issue.

If YM don't know about mud berths here is the chance to put them right and get an article that is factually correct, why pass it up?
 
MoodySabre said:
They wanted to stand a fin keeler up in the mud unsupported :eek: so deep enough to support the belly of the boat.
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I would say Benfleet is the place for that. I went in there a few years ago in my fin keeler for a function. We went to a lot of trouble hanging old tyres of halyards to keep the boat secure before the tide went out. She settled into the mud beautifully to about halfway between the keel stub and the waterline and I felt very secure.
 
MoodySabre said:
They wanted to stand a fin keeler up in the mud unsupported :eek: so deep enough to support the belly of the boat.
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They was a time during this episode we were worried the boat would dry out on its side......what we should have worried about was the possibility of it not coming out!

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They should go here....

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Nice food in the town.

But not here, even though it looks like it is good.

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This is OK too.

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Hi

For what its worth, the photoshoot will be taking place at Tollesbury with Apogee providing the model. Some pictures under sail and settling into a new unused mud berth, to illustrate the process. Mr Cunliffe has written an article about mud berths, and we will be providing the illustrations. Could be fun provided its not snowing or blowing a gale or both! :eek:

Will post details or account as and when.....

Regards

Ian
 
Hopefully not too much luck required. Berthing a boat on untouched saltings is now frowned on, so we are using a berth that has not had a fin keeler in. It has been unused for a couple of years but the mud is soft, and DEEP.

Hopefully there will be an interesting article at the end of this :)

Thanks though for the good wishes :D:D

Regards

Ian
 
I'm guessing the concern should not so much be about berthing, but how far up your topsides the rising tide will go before the mud decides to release you!
 
Wunja said:
I'm guessing the concern should not so much be about berthing, but how far up your topsides the rising tide will go before the mud decides to release you!
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Well on our normal mud berth the boat comes up nice and easy :)

Where we will be taking the pictures is very similar in consistency. The only things that get stuck normally are welly boots:D

Regards

Ian
 
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ianfr said:
Mr Cunliffe has written an article about mud berths.
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Whilst I have a great respect for Mr Cunliffe, I am surprised at this choice. There are surely EastCoasters, with a lifetime experience of mud berths, better qualified to 'write an article'?

Dylan Winter has kept his boat on a mud berth in Brough for the winter. I would have more time for his opinion.
 
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Wunja said:
I'm guessing the concern should not so much be about berthing, but how far up your topsides the rising tide will go before the mud decides to release you!
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Never heard that to be an issue altho I do wonder about wing keels!
The mud tends to kind of emulsify as the water returns. That's why a CG mud rescue team will use water lances to free your nether regions :o if ever they need to rescue you from a muddy drowning.
 
chinita said:
Whilst I have a great respect for Mr Cunliffe, I am surprised at this choice. There are surely EastCoasters, with a lifetime experience of mud berths, better qualified to 'write an article'?
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I'm struggling to see how anyone could write a whole article about a mud berth. It's a berth, it's in mud and you have to think about how you fix your warps. End of? Perhaps my lack of imagination will be exposed.
 
tillergirl said:
I'm struggling to see how anyone could write a whole article about a mud berth. It's a berth, it's in mud and you have to think about how you fix your warps. End of? Perhaps my lack of imagination will be exposed.
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I'm quite alarmed really. Perhaps what I've been doing for the last umpteen years is really difficult and dangerous! :eek:
 
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