Lund owners - beaching yay or nay?

[canuckjgc]

I'm going to be buying a 2007 SSV 16. Being riveted should I be beaching this boat? Or anchoring and letting it float out? I'm on the west coast and beaches here are small rocks and barnacles for the most part.

I don't want to start popping rivets on what is now a very pretty boat.

 

[canuckjgc]

Re: Lund owners - beaching yay or nay?

Didn't realize there was a Lund owners section. Mods can feel free to move this post.

 

[sublauxation]

Re: Lund owners - beaching yay or nay?

I don't know if you can get that keel guard to stick to Aluminum or not, may be something to look into. On that pretty of a boat I'd be afraid to beach it on anything but sand unless the water is dead flat with no boat wake.

 

[5150abf]

Re: Lund owners - beaching yay or nay?

Get a keel gaurd on it, the keels are really thick but oyu iwll work your way through it entually and there really is no way to fix them.

I beached mine a bunch and finally wore through and it was a real bear to fix.

 

[AGENT 37]

Re: Lund owners - beaching yay or nay?

Light aluminum and riveted hulls tend to get trashed over time in the tidewater. A little wouldn't hurt though.

 

[Home Cookin']

Re: Lund owners - beaching yay or nay?

if you don't get a keel guard, at leat moor it off the beach (so it is floating entirely) after you unload. consider one of the "bungee" anchor lines that will hold your boat off. Be careful when you are stern out and anchored or beached, that you don't get waves over the stern.
Some folks have a piece of steel, or aluminum plate, welded to the bow. You don't need to protect much, just the point of impact.

 

[lncoop]

Re: Lund owners - beaching yay or nay?

Glad you decided to go with the Lund Canuck. I have no doubt you'll be happy with your choice. Around here we do a lot of island camping, and one low tech solution I have seen employed is beaching the boat on an old tire. The downside of course is that you have to keep an old tire in your boat, but it's a cheap, simple and effective solution. You just idle in close, throw the tire onto the shore, then drive onto it. Works like a charm once you master the process.

 

[canuckjgc]

Re: Lund owners - beaching yay or nay?

Yes I listened to the advice here and imagined myself spending a Saturday finding small leaks in an inflatable and figured I just don't want to bother with that. The 16' Lund looks pretty seaworthy to me and a lot more deck space. I think it will work well.

I like your tire idea - a lot cheaper than a keel guard.

 

[canuckjgc]

Re: Lund owners - beaching yay or nay?

I phoned both keel guard makers and both said it won't work on the Lund SSV.

Anyone have any luck with a keel guard for a Lund SSV?

 

[lncoop]

Re: Lund owners - beaching yay or nay?

This might be an option. No idea how much it is.
http://beachmatestore.com/index.php

 

[Hank496]

Re: Lund owners - beaching yay or nay?

Where we are the clammers use nothing but aluminum boats and the local Lund dealer sells a lot of them. These guys are out everyday and run the boats right up onto the mudflat.

 

[NYGiants]

Re: Lund owners - beaching yay or nay?

i wouldnt worry about it i have a lund and dont hesitate to beach it

 

[WN2712NJ]

Re: Lund owners - beaching yay or nay?

I have a 14 foot Duroboat, very much like a Lund. They are pretty tough, but I still wouldn't leave them grinding on rocks and barnacles for much longer than it takes to load/unload the boat.

We have a non-floating dock on Puget Sound, and what we did was run a "clothesline" from it out to a pulley mounted on a cement block, buried out in the tideflats, beyond the rocks (which on our beach tend to be nearer the high water mark). I can unload the boat, attach it to the clothesline, and run it all the way out to the block to be moored. When I want to use the boat, I just run it back in as far as whereever the tide is at the moment.

-dm