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[Aquaboy]

Nicely Done, Stuck aground at high tide - YouTube

 

[fredrussell]

Just watched it, cheers. A salutary tale. Is the other boat mentioned/pictured still high and dry?

 

[Capt Popeye]

Well thank you for guiding me (us) towards this utube video ;yes a good reason to perhaps use a sounding pole to get a better idea of what the river bed is actually like ; maybe bring the craft to a standstill , check her momentum , before that mud does it for you ? maybe put out light anchors ahead and astern of craft so as to check her in that possition ; the wind just might get stronger , then blow your craft further ashore or sideways , for if you fainted or fell over or even into that muddy creek etc you would be well and trulely stuck , on an exposed shore (mud) Yes you mastered the exit into a good possition very well ; plus your complete recovery went very well ; might suggest that if or when we get into these precarious sittuations its as important to notify the CG , Police , RNLI etc that you have saved yourself and are OK so that those emergency systems are not concerned about you as a victim left out in the wilderness

Thanks again for this very well scripted , narrated , photographed presnted production

Many lessons to e learnt from it

Amendment 21.35pm Having returned to office , I now think that if ever caught in this sort of sittuation , and on ones own ; its far better to call /ask for the lifeboat help and assistance at the earlyest time , cause if the refloating went awry , poss seperating Boat /person or the person got caught in the deep mud , especially as darkess apprached , it might be best to have company , by way of the RNLI , otherwise looking for a lone person , with /without boat , out on those desolate muddy areas in darkness just might end right ; the RNLI might be able to leave a person or two with the lone sailor armed with powerfull torches and sustinance , both to keep the sailor company and help boat recovery

 

[Aquaboy]

those boats have a centre plate so my thought is leave it down, or at least half when exploring these sort of areas.
As to the mud its really not that Dangerous. best with a stick or support of some sort, and there is definitly a technique or
a mud walk. If you stop you must stay still, the minute you errrr.....squidge about thats when the suction gets ahold.

 

[fredrussell]

those boats have a centre plate so my thought is leave it down, or at least half when exploring these sort of areas….

Good point that. My boat has a lifting keel and I would never have it in the fully up position whilst creek crawling.

 

[MikeBz]

It sounds as though he decelerated so gently that he didn't notice he was aground until he put the helm over - maybe the centreplate was down but just rode up, arresting his speed very gently. On soft mud/marsh it probably wouldn't have made much noise (unlike on hard sand/shingle - don't ask me how I know!).

 

[Daverw]

We have lifting keel and have come to a gentle mud stop a few times in our early days, the issue we have is the tide pulls us around and the rudder / Skeg becomes the problem as it doesn’t lift. Luckily Humber mud is very soft in most places and we dont tend to have the keel fully up