How To Properly Beach Your Boat

[Motion35]

I was very busy at work this morning (surfing thru boats for sale) and came across something that I thought was worth sharing with those of us that would most likely NEVER do something like this to our boat. OK, never is a strong word as I would maybe consider this in a emergency situation like a fire on board, forgot the drain plugs in the truck, or the wife really had to pee! Any thoughts on this one?

http://www.powerboatlistings.com/view/48246

[Trimmed Out15]

Wow, she would have to hold it, no way im pulling up on that beach. All soft sand she has a chance.

[David - WI]

Must sound like fingernails on a chalkboard when he slides'r in there.

[Flex]

Yikes! I board a lot, and it makes me cringe when I see people with these giant wake boats just beach them all the time. Not much sand on our texas shorelines!

I would not even put my aluminum on that!

[STV_Keith]

Out here on the West Coast, it's a common thing. Rocky beaches are just part of the landscape. The picture in the ad looks to have been taken in the Channel in Havasu.

With the STV, you can hop out, pick up the bow and walk it up. With the bigger boats, you just run them in on the smoothest spot you can find. It is what it is. Out here, you'll see everything from $2k to $2M boats on those rocks.

[Motion35]

Out here on the West Coast, it's a common thing. Rocky beaches are just part of the landscape. The picture in the ad looks to have been taken in the Channel in Havasu.

With the STV, you can hop out, pick up the bow and walk it up. With the bigger boats, you just run them in on the smoothest spot you can find. It is what it is. Out here, you'll see everything from $2k to $2M boats on those rocks.

I hear you Keith...not me. I've been thru that channel more times then I can remember and know for a fact that there are sandy spots available. If not, just idle on by and wait for one to open up.

[STV_Keith]

I hear you Keith...not me. I've been thru that channel more times then I can remember and know for a fact that there are sandy spots available. If not, just idle on by and wait for one to open up.

On a busy weekend, you could be waiting all day for one of the sandy spots.

[Hot Shot Merc]

Looks like an ideal place to have a stick anchor or keel guards.

[XstreamVking]

A piece of indoor/outdoor carpet was always my way of keeping the hull from getting scratched. Roll it up and stash it in the boat under the bow.....2'x6' is all it takes to protect a v hull.

[STV_Keith]

Looks like an ideal place to have a stick anchor or keel guards.

When the water level is really up, there isn't even beach there. You have to throw an anchor out into the channel and pull to stern, then tie off to the moorings on the wall. PITA will all the boats floating and moving with traffic wakes.

[Glasstream15]

With "Keel Guard" or "Hamby's" or similar it would probably be okay.

[Ted Stryker]

For sale ad like that will guarantee it not buying it

[Mr. Demeanor]

Looks like an ideal place to have a stick anchor or keel guards.

Where can I buy one of these "stick anchors" you speak of so highly?

[Mr. Demeanor]

Get one of these. Clip a corner to the bow eye and pull in.
http://www.cgear-sandfree.com/produc...-free-mat.html

[Scream And Fly]

Must sound like fingernails on a chalkboard when he slides'r in there.

That is a very good description, because whether it actually made that sound or not, that's what would be going through my head!
That must have left some bad scratches