Paul added: snipped > One thing many people forget, and I include myself in this, is that the > profile of the cut makes a big difference to the performance of both the > moored and moving boat. Moving the mooring a few yards (metres) can make > a real difference to your comfort.
Yep, agreed, but in my case the boat is reasonably deep-draughted (but, by no means as deep as a working boat) and I am constrained to choose what moorings that I can get if I am to get the stern (particularly) near the bank. Also, you can't necessarily tell the depth (profile) from the approach to a mooring (there are certain clues but it's not always completely obvious) so, as I described in my last post, you are faced with a series of trial and error approaches. Once you've found somewhere that will accept your boat are you then going to reject it because the ground doesn't meet some Rockwell hardness criteria? ;-))) I generally always try to find somewhere with some Armco edging but that is no guide as to whether I will be able to get my boat into the edge. Roger Roger
