Mooring without tieing up

[mark99]

Tonight we are moored safely with no ropes connected to boat. Note we are not in a lock. How?

Edited April 16, 2016 by mark99

[Graham Davis]

Mud weights.

Dry dock.

[Ray T]

In a wet / dry dock.

[Top cat]

When we did that for a lunch break we stuffed the boat into a reed bank at the side of the Nene, but I wouldn't do that overnight. You could be up a dead end and have grounded it on a mudbank.

 

Top Cat

[GoodGurl]

dry dock or on a lorry

[Paul C]

Anchor

[mark99]

Nothing dangling from boat like mud weights and still water under us. No anchor.

Edited April 16, 2016 by mark99

[Wanderer Vagabond]

Between two finger pontoons with a rope between them?

[Ray T]

Nothing dangling from boat like mud weights and still water under us. No anchor.

 

Aren't you at the Stink Hole?

[Paul C]

Are you the inside boat of two breasted up ones, the outer one being longer and its ropes to the bank? And you're somehow secured with fenders between, or the ropes containing, the boat?

 

Or are you using something other than rope, for example solid bars (similar to a solid tow)?

You didn't sprinkle the contents of an industrial size tub of custard powder around the boat did you?

[Phil Ambrose]

ZPM powered super magnetic drive causing the boat to stick to the bank, huh easy one. NEXT !!!

Phil

[Paul C]

Gelli Baff?

[Jerra]

Goat chains to pilings?

[mark99]

 

Aren't you at the Stink Hole?

Yes. It's a very narrow wet dock with a weir at one end. The flow pulls your bow into a vee and the boat cannot shift as it's so narrow. Magic .....apart from the hum. .

 

Ray you used memory not logic

[Ray T]

Yes. It's a very narrow wet dock with a weir at one end. The flow pulls your bow into a vee and the boat cannot shift as it's so narrow. Magic .....apart from the hum. .

 

Ray you used memory not logic

 

Indeed.

[dogless]

Thought you were in a farmers field on the south Oxford

Rog

[Paul C]

Was just about to suggest something vaguely similar. That's our boat in the middle, in theory we would have remained there without needing the rope, we were basically gently but firmly wedged. The trick is to judge the speed going in, so that the force required to come out again is able to be generated by the engine/prop!

 

 

[Tecka]

Was just about to suggest something vaguely similar. That's our boat in the middle

 

 

Never thought I'd see that many boats squeezed in Broad Street basin.

[FadeToScarlet]

Never thought I'd see that many boats squeezed in Broad Street basin.

Brighton, Nuneaton, Paul's boat, Grenville (?), Barnet I think.

[Paul C]

Brighton, Nuneaton, Paul's boat, Grenville (?), Barnet I think.

 

There's a 6th boat if you look closely, its behind us at the the right 1 slot.

[FadeToScarlet]

Brighton, Nuneaton, Paul's boat, Grenville (?), Barnet I think.

It's not Grenville, having looked more closely.

[George Kennedy]

Yes. It's a very narrow wet dock with a weir at one end. The flow pulls your bow into a vee and the boat cannot shift as it's so narrow. Magic .....apart from the hum. .

Ray you used memory not logic

I'm intrigued but have to confess to not knowing where the location is !

[Ray T]

I'm intrigued but have to confess to not knowing where the location is !

 

http://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=58541

 

Posted 25 July 2013 - 07:56 PM

There is a small marina mooring right next to a sewage works (Maple Cross) that keeps advertising in the trade press. Not sure about resi, you may have to ask face to face. NB is does niff about that area so possibly not worth a resi consideration.

[mark99]

I'm intrigued but have to confess to not knowing where the location is !

 

 

Maple Cross Water Treatment. Below Spingwell Lock on GU Canal. It's an arm off the River Colne that co-joins the canal.

 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.6189176,-0.4962677,269m/data=!3m1!1e3

 

 

In the morning pulled boat back 2 foot to coat the stempost - rope needed to stop the boat pulling right forward due to weir flows. Hell of a lot of reverse needed to exit.

 

Edited April 18, 2016 by mark99