Beaching Question

[Vankaye]

Re: Beaching Question

Well, you needed better advice and you certainly got it here. That said, I don't beach my boat either and I don't really see
anybody around me beaching. But I'm dealing with tides, waves and wakes at the sandbars around Clearwater FL. Mooring with a couple of anchors in a few of feet of water seems to make my boat very happy.

 

[MolsonCanadian]

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from my 17' to my 30' I do the same thing. Drop a bow anchor out in deeper water, approx 40-70 feet out, back into shallow water, approx 3'. Drives up, then walk the stern anchor out approx 50'. Stayed many weekends like that, in some good winds with up to 7 other boats rafted up and have never moved.

 

[captain zac]

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Same as above here

anchor bow out it will handle the waves better
walk stearn into the beach and tie off on a sand spike
getting on and off the stearn is easier than the bow

outdrive striling the ground is always a bad thing

Harry

 

[sstone]

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For keel damage, I got one of those rubber things along the keel up to the bow cleat. I'm sure folks around here will complain about performance or locking water in or something. But the dealer laid it pretty flush to the hull and it saves it. When the waves are an issue, the bigger boats always tie a line from stern to shore, at an angle, to a tree or a big rock. One angled out from each stern corner. keeps the boat from floating out and the stern from moving. No tides here though, just lakes

 

[JEBar]

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the wind can quickly generate considerable waves on South Dakota's shallow lakes .... way too many times while camping on Lake Poinsett I've seen folks run their boats up on the beach and head for their camper .... inevitably, the waves would turn the boat so that it would be lying on its side at water's edge with the waves rocking it against whatever sand or rocks may be there .... while I haven't seen any hulls punctured, I have seen some ugly scratches which aren't going to wax away

Jim

 

[Cobalt226]

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Thanks for all the replies! I pretty much knew the answer and wanted to make sure before I did anything stupid!... I have seen several people do the bow out method and not beach at all and I think I will try that this weekend. Makes sense to not have the boat in the sand and to have the stern towards shore which would make getting in/out of the boat easier and allow the bow to absorb most of the waves, Thanks again for the help!

 

[SDSeville]

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Not sure if anyone mentioned it yet, but be sure to have a length of chain attached to your anchor. I struggled getting my fluke style anchor to bite until someone here on iboats told me that rope alone wouldn't get it done.

 

[jkust]

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There's a couple of newer twin Sea Rays that seem to always be boating together on one of the lakes we frequent. When they pull up to the beach, they both gun it then throw it in neutral until the outdrive digs into the sand and stops them. I just cringe when I see it and they are completely clueless. Amazingly we discovered one of them lives a couple blocks from us back home and each has a $1m lake home on that lake.

 

[LippCJ7]

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There's a couple of newer twin Sea Rays that seem to always be boating together on one of the lakes we frequent. When they pull up to the beach, they both gun it then throw it in neutral until the outdrive digs into the sand and stops them. I just cringe when I see it and they are completely clueless.

I see it here in Colorado as well and I know that cringe you feel very well, the difference here though is that most the lakes here are reservoirs and the "sand" is typically trucked in and to call it sand would be a stretch of epic proportions, Its more like small pee gravel, we cant let the little ones on it for long or there feet are raw, imagine what that would do to my hull!!

No Beaching for me thank you....

 

[haulnazz15]

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I see it here in Colorado as well and I know that cringe you feel very well, the difference here though is that most the lakes here are reservoirs and the "sand" is typically trucked in and to call it sand would be a stretch of epic proportions, Its more like small pee gravel, we cant let the little ones on it for long or there feet are raw, imagine what that would do to my hull!!

No Beaching for me thank you....

Well in the lakes I boat in for the most part, the "sand" is more like river rock, lol. That's our primary reason for not beaching.

 

[hnt]

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This is how I do it

 

[Scott Danforth]

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for beaching, the technique will vary a bit depending if your near a current, the tide changes a bit, etc.

In Florida I beach all the time in sand. however I also have the tide charts with me. in Long Boat Pass the bow is on the beach, the stern is in 8' of water. I installed a keel guard specifically to allow me to beach. However a few other locations are much shallower, so I drop the rear anchor as I am coming in then bury the bow anchor in the sand on the beach so no-one trips over it.

if the shore has rocks, usually drop the bow anchor and back in until the stern is in about 3' of water, then wade into shore with the rear anchor.