Mud Weight

[Linny]

Would like to replace my iron mud weight for a posh stainless steel one. Does anyone have any idea where I might start my search. Have tried the obvious chandler shops without any luck. Thanks in anticipation.

[Antares_9]

Welcome to the forum, you can get one here. http://www.norfolkmarine.co.uk/shop-online/14kg-stainless-steel-mudweight-p-18778.html

Or you can get a stainless pudding basin, a stainless U bolt and fill with molten lead, usual caveat, read up on safety etc. No point filling it with anything else apart from perhaps scrap wheel ballancing weights encapsulated in resin as it would be too light under water.

[BuffaloBill]

The selection from Norfolk Marine:-

http://www.norfolkmarine.co.uk/shop-onl ... c_subcat=1

[w44nty]

Welcome to the forum, you can get one here. http://www.norfolkmarine.co.uk/shop-online/14kg-stainless-steel-mudweight-p-18778.html

Or you can get a stainless pudding basin, a stainless U bolt and fill with molten lead, usual caveat, read up on safety etc. No point filling it with anything else apart from perhaps scrap wheel ballancing weights encapsulated in resin as it would be too light under water.

I have a bucket full of scrap wheel balancing weights in my garage,I intended to do what David suggested,anyone want them they are free to a good home

[Gordon]

Hi Linny

Suggest you have a word with those nice people at Ludham Bridge boatyard. Always very helpful and when I lost my mudweight they were able to offer me a good choice of weights and were able to get the chosen one in very swiftly

[Guest]

Sorry to be a wet blanket, but bearing in mind that most mud weights sit on the foredeck in full view, even when the boat is unattended, are you sure you want to risk four times as much money as necessary ?

They seem to get pinched fairly regularly, and iron ones are costly enough to replace, at around £40, but stainless, at three or four times the price ?

The "rusty iron" types are often described as horrible looking, but a quick coat of Hamerite paint makes them quite tidy, and much cleaner to handle.

(there really should be a tinhat smilie available on this forum... )

[quo vadis]

Or you could stamp your ships name on the mudweight as a deterent

[BuffaloBill]

Sorry to be a wet blanket, but bearing in mind that most mud

weights sit on the foredeck in full view, even when the boat is

unattended, are you sure you want to risk four times as much money

as necessary ?

Or you could do as I do and just let it hang below the water level out

of eye view when you leave the boat.

Or you could stamp your ships name on the mudweight as a deterent

Not easy on stainless steel

[donnygeoff]

Or you could do as I do and just let it hang below the water level out

of eye view when you leave the boat.

But,

Wouldn't the rope attached to it give its location away.

If some theiving scum wanted it, they would know where it was anyway....

they would just get a bit wet pulling the rope up.

[Poppy]

The selection from Norfolk Marine:-

http://www.norfolkmarine.co.uk/shop-onl ... c_subcat=1

'Ow much? Somebody's got far too much money

[BuffaloBill]

Wouldn't the rope attached to it give its location away

It's on a chain Besides, they would'nt know if it was in the

mud or 'just hanging out'. Much easier to pinch one they can see...it

might be just a cast iron one for all they know.

[Guest]

It seems funny though, to go to all of the extra expense of a stainless one, and then have to hide it in the water for the majority of the time...