How to beach a boat?

[jac]

Not sure if this will work here but a new approach to trailer sailing??

https://www.facebook.com/reel/432899505453676?fs=e&s=TIeQ9V

 

[AngusMcDoon]

Linky no worky.

 

[SaltIre]

Link works. The practice looks silly and unsafe.

 

[Frogmogman]

At the risk of starting off a fight about the RNLI, I think their technique is better.

One of the reasons that they chose water jet propulsion for the Shannon class.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Back in the 90s it was normal to sail your Dart or Hobie catamaran up the beach when the wind made the surf too dangerous. Someone I know took out a beach hut with a slightly over enthusiastic technique. You’re supposed to dump the mainsheet as you touch.

 

[burgundyben]

At the risk of starting off a fight about the RNLI, I think their technique is better.

One of the reasons that they chose water jet propulsion for the Shannon class.

I wonder how the jets cope with ingesting stones?

 

[rotrax]

The intakes will be screened.

 

[burgundyben]

The intakes will be screened.

I'd be fascinated to have a look.

 

[SaltIre]

I'd be fascinated to have a look.

Not sure if it tells us much but here's one being inverted...

...and here:

Water jet - Shannon class lifeboat - Picture of RNLI College Discovery Tour, Poole - Tripadvisor

 

[Sandy]

All I can say is, don't try this at home.

 

[Juan Twothree]

I wonder how the jets cope with ingesting stones?

When they were testing the suitability of jets for lifeboat use, they sat the prototype on a shingle beach, sucking up stones into the intake and spitting them out the back.

The impellers on the jet units are more or less a consumable part, and not too difficult to change

 

[newtothis]

As a kid I had a job in this neighbourhood. The guy I worked for had a jet boat tax deductible tractor parts. He reckoned they didn't need much more than wet sand to move.

 

[Daverw]

Watched the Skegness crew do this a couple of years ago with their new boat,, was fascinating to watch them drive full speed to the beach and amazed how far up they got. They expected the skid plates to have to be replaced regularly

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Shingle is surprisingly undamaging. They seem to act like ball bearings. It’s sand that trashes the bottom of your boat with a high speed beaching.

 

[Daydream believer]

At the risk of starting off a fight about the RNLI, I think their technique is better.
One of the reasons that they chose water jet propulsion for the Shannon class.

I suppose his excuse was that the echo sounder had stopped working

 

[Juan Twothree]

There's also a procedure for emergency beaching of Atlantic ILBs, in the event of an uncontrollable fire, or having to land a critical casualty onto a beach away from station in dumping surf .

The RNLI used to train crews for this on a shingle spit at Keyhaven, using an experimental aluminium -hulled Atlantic (which they built and trialled but didn't continue with).

It was obviously a pain having to drag the boat back down the beach each time, so for training purposes the idea was to drive it up the beach fast enough that it would slide across the flat bit of shingle at the top then relaunch itself down the slope into the water the other side, à la James Bond.

 

[johnalison]

It looks to me as if the original clip was from a third world country and that this procedure was what they always did. The helmsman achieved what he wanted and used his judgement effectively, and I don’t think we should be patronising about people living and working in conditions that are so different from ours. It is not the way I would treat my boat, but it clearly works for him and I think I admire him for it.