Yacht aground at Haulover inlet
- Thread starter Nauti Fox
- Start date
dom
Well-known member
Wow, great job!!
And that needed some serious hp
And that needed some serious hp
Bathdave
Well-known member
My instinct wold be have been trying try and tow off stern first on the basis you would be pulling back towards deeper water earlier ...but would that have run the risk of snapping the rudder ?
penfold
Well-known member
A long scope tow on the spinnaker halliard might have been more productive; in a similar self-inflicted grounding we got out by sending fit stupid people up the mast to stand on the spreaders.
NormanS
Well-known member
Some years ago we got involved with something similar at Coll, when a big Dutch steel ketch landed on a rock at the entrance to Loch Eatharna. At the time, we had a 60' converted fishing boat, so had some power. We towed from the bow, but got a wee fishing boat to help to heel the ketch over by pulling on an extended halyard from the masthead. When the ketch came off, and suddenly came upright, fortunately the line from the masthead parted, or the wee fishing boat might have been catapulted into orbit. ?
davidej
Well-known member
There is always a tow boat around in USA waters -at a price!
We were ashore when our yacht dragged its anchor off Key West during a sudden squall. It was a lift keeler and ended up on the beach - lucky, if we had anchored elsewhere it could have ended up on rocks.
A boat like that rocked up and $400 and about 5 mins later , we were off.
We were ashore when our yacht dragged its anchor off Key West during a sudden squall. It was a lift keeler and ended up on the beach - lucky, if we had anchored elsewhere it could have ended up on rocks.
A boat like that rocked up and $400 and about 5 mins later , we were off.
Resolution
Well-known member
Big warning to anyone using a halyard tow to heel the boat over. Do first attach a mooring line or similar to your halyard before handing an end to the tow boat. In my 13 metre deep keel yacht we once got embarrassingly stuck on the mud at Keyhaven. Walked the crew out on the boom, heeled over a bit, still stuck. One of the ferry boats came along side , took the end of the main halyard to his stern cleat and pulled us over to 60 or 70 degrees. With a bit of motor we slid off into deeper water. The keel did its proper job and brought us upright. Even on full extension the main halyard was just too short and we lifted the ferry stern clear out of the water. I was terrified the mast would collapse. Only by frantic ballast out on the boom did we get enough slack to unclip the halyard. Moral : use an extension line and have a knife handy!
Oh!, and stay out of Keyhaven if you have a deep keel.
AngusMcDoon
Well-known member
What's that boat even doing there in the first place, because isn't there a bridge just inside the inlet that the mast wouldn't fit under even if there was enough water depth in the channel?
burgundyben
Well-known member
Erk! The wrong kind of excitement.
Keyhqven has lots of depth, but the deep water us very narrow, barely stray a boats length and you're in trouble.
Resolution
Well-known member
The video clips from Haulover are addictive if you are from the dark side and like long low machines with numbers of MASSIVE outboards across the stern.
pelicanpete
Member
Well...the incident happened at Boca Raton inlet, not Haulover. Haulover is further south in N. Miami.
And, to Angus; there is no fixed bridge problem so he was fine. All the bridges on the ICW (Intracoastal Waterway) are lifting Bascule bridges permitting sail boats and large motor boats to pass.
And, to Angus; there is no fixed bridge problem so he was fine. All the bridges on the ICW (Intracoastal Waterway) are lifting Bascule bridges permitting sail boats and large motor boats to pass.
michael_w
Well-known member
65' air draft limit on the ICW. A lot of the opening bridges are being replaced with fixed ones. If cruising the USA membership of one of the towing companies, Tow boat US and the like is cheap insurance. They often have marina discounts too.