Another beached yacht
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prv
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Not sure it was helping much in this case, but it's definitely an option to bear in mind. Last year I ran aground in Poole Harbour a bit earlier than I was intending to; power astern was achieving nothing and forward of course would have just pushed me further on. I suspected I was on the side of a slope, though, and pulling the bow round would get me off. Being quite breezy, unrolling the jib at the end of my long bowsprit did exactly that and off I floated.
(Well aware this is not news to plenty of people here
)Pete
saltylegs
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Sad sight
I wonder if she has the inverted T keel as that does not make it any easier to get of the shore.
I wonder if she has the inverted T keel as that does not make it any easier to get of the shore.
RichardS
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I wonder if the engine is getting any cooling water through it? 
Richard
Richard
White Horse
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Trying to work out how she got there in the first place. No sails hoisted and you can see the engine running so how do you finish up in that position on what looks like a lee shore ?
Simondjuk
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I'd wager the keel had nestled into the sand by a good couple feet in moments with the wave motion around it. Just think how quickly you sink into the sand up past your ankles if you stand in one spot in the waves on the beach.
rr_123
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What time were you intending to?
RichardS
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There's also a taut line from the bow which doesn't appear to be helping the situation! 
White Horse
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Suppose they could have pulled it off with the main halyard but would the mast stand it ?
prv
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Not so much time as place. I was trying to get as far up one of the little creeks as I could before grounding for the night - hopefully round the corner and hence out of sight of the other boats who had stopped when the buoyage ran out
I'd strayed out of the little channel (trying to follow the darker area on a Google Maps printout
) when I first got stuck; after getting off I got further but not as far as I'd hoped. At the bottom of the tide I took pictures of the shape of the gulleys for next time. Dylan's not the only thin-water sailor amongst us
Pete
Chrissie
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That clip brings back very unpleasant memories of when I was aground in Chichester, the wind was blowing hard and the waves were rather large, I was taken off and the boat was dragged off, but those guys in the clip were a lot braver than me, I was screaming in fear!
myquest
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There are other video clips that indicate that a mooring shackle snapped.
devilinangel
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devilinangel
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Tomahawk
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But for good fortune..... there go all of us who sail..
So is U Tube a good or bad thing?
His misfortune is now the subject of idle gossip... Or genuine concern from some ... Or a salutary lesson about checking simple things like shackles (apparently the cause of the misshap)..
So is U Tube a good or bad thing?
His misfortune is now the subject of idle gossip... Or genuine concern from some ... Or a salutary lesson about checking simple things like shackles (apparently the cause of the misshap)..
Spyro
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If the intake is on the port side probably not. I'd also wonder whether it was getting any oil at that angle.I wonder if the engine is getting any cooling water through it?
Richard
Tricky one about the bow rope it's definitly stopping the bow turning away from the wind and getting more heel on but it's also stopping the boat being blown further up the beach.
Fantasie 19
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Bu**er all that... I want to know if he got off OK in the end??
photodog
Lord High Commander of Upper Broughton and Gunthor
+1
awol
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Well, given that there is another clip taken by a diver showing all the dings and scratches, the answer is yes.
photodog
Lord High Commander of Upper Broughton and Gunthor
Can u post a link... I cant find it...
