Beached Boat - ways to remove her without machinery?

jimmy_the_builder said:
Could you use an airbag jack to physically lift the boat a bit and get some tubes underneath it, and then roll it down the beach a bit?
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I don't think the tubes would roll, but it could well still be worth doing as the keel will slide across the stationary tubes. Have a look on Youtube for videos of the RNLI recovering their beach-launched lifeboats - not the new Shannon with its fancy hydraulic cradle, but the older ones involving lots of manhandling with plastic "logs" under the keel.

Pete
 
Thanks

I think I'm going to try carefully with air bags to float her off then look at poles/greased railway sleepers under her if that doesn't work.

Appreciate all the comments, the airbags option while it can be tricky the boat only has to move about 15 feet backwards and 25 across and it will only be in shallow water so hopefully with extreme caution there shouldn't be too many dramas...

Any more suggestions please keep them coming!
 
Odella1234 said:
Any more suggestions please keep them coming!
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My preferred suggestion would be to tell the SSSI people to go swivel - they're buggering up long-standing maritime activities around here too for no good reason. But unfortunately I don't know how best to do that.

Pete
 
prv said:
My preferred suggestion would be to tell the SSSI people to go swivel - they're buggering up long-standing maritime activities around here too for no good reason. But unfortunately I don't know how best to do that.

Pete
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Tried. We all clubbed together to fight them in court about paying mooring fees for the area which we haven't done ever before, nor have any of the St.Ives boats done so for the 100's of years before that when sheltering there for the winter.

Lost that case, I'm sure it's nothing to do with the commercial development of the area by ING at all as I'm not cynical...
 
Apply to Natural England for a licence to investigate the likely distribution of the greater spotted nematode worm in your particular location. Your application will state that necessarily some small-scale excavation by hand will be required in pursuit of the academic study. Mention that the research study will be carefully timed to coincide with the next spring high tide in order to take advantage of the natural cycle of tidal reinstatement.

Then, when they grant the licence, dig the trench, float the boat off, fill the trench in, and tell NE you weren't able to find the worm cos they are a bit too small to see, shoulda gone to specsavers, sorry. Job done.

Cheers
Jimmy
 
jimmy_the_builder said:
Apply to Natural England for a licence to investigate the likely distribution of the greater spotted nematode worm in your particular location. Your application will state that necessarily some small-scale excavation by hand will be required in pursuit of the academic study. Mention that the research study will be carefully timed to coincide with the next spring high tide in order to take advantage of the natural cycle of tidal reinstatement.

Then, when they grant the licence, dig the trench, float the boat off, fill the trench in, and tell NE you weren't able to find the worm cos they are a bit too small to see, shoulda gone to specsavers, sorry. Job done.

Cheers
Jimmy
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Absolutely brilliant! As soon as they turn down my application for the jcb/digger access they currently have that's the next one!
 
so
how about moving all the ballast to the seaward end then with tide step the boat round. Each turn move the ballast to the other end
COME ON THINK ABOUT IT ....yes that's it think simple solution

The heavy end should hold the ground and each turn set two or three new anchor points
HEY I CANT HELP BEING A SMART ASS

mick
 
mtb said:
so
how about moving all the ballast to the seaward end then with tide step the boat round. Each turn move the ballast to the other end
COME ON THINK ABOUT IT ....yes that's it think simple solution

The heavy end should hold the ground and each turn set two or three new anchor points
HEY I CANT HELP BEING A SMART ASS

mick
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Sadly the largest bit of ballast is the two 6 cylinder 125 hp diesels up front which I can't quite lift myself!
 
Odella1234 said:
She's on the beach and not moving, on a 7.3m high tide she was upright and rocking on her keel.

Can't get heavy machinery down there to lift and I'm not allowed to dig a trench due to it being a bird sanctuary.

Someone suggested a lot of fenders tied to the keel but how much lift will this give, it's a 38ft wooden ex fishing boat so not exactly light!

Any help/suggestions greatly received

Thanks in advance
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by giving the height of a tide you have given no useful information for us to help.

What is MHWS and HAT where you are?
 
so create ballast water butts filled from over board if the hull is ok there will be buoyancy
 
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