Beaching Boats

[2kwik4u]

I use the @Babin Farms method. We have VERY few sandy places around us, most shorelines are rocky and NOT idea for "beaching". Sometimes we'll find a muddy shore, but not often.

I'll usually drop the anchor about 30-40ft off the shoreline and back in. I keep there articulated keel about 3-6 inches off the bottom but stopping a few feet out and dragging the boat in by hand, then tie off to a tree or large rock on shore. Hope back on the boat (or have a competent first mate) and tighten up the anchor line.

No tides or current to deal with. Just wakes from other boats.

The back in method works really well for us, especially considering the rear platform on these boats. Great easy way to get in/out of the boat, wash feet off, get drinks, etc. With that said, I think we get on shore about 2-3 times a season. Some seasons not at all. Just nothing to do over there, so we typically stay in deeper water.

 

[zipper]

This is about as close to beaching as I will get. Anchored in knee deep water. Boarding ladder down a couple of inches off the bottom. I have wet sanded the topsides of the hull. I know what a little sand grit 1000/2000 will do to gelcoat, never mind the coarse 40 grit beach sand working on the hull for a few hours.

 

[kgower]

Not speaking from experience as my first boat is on deposit. I have had a SeaDoo PWC since 03. I won't say I never beached it but it has been a rare occasion. I usually drive in close to the beach, spin around drop the misses off drive forward a couple of feet and throw throw the anchor out. Sometimes the water is over my head and have to swim a few feet before standing.
I don't plan on beaching the boat. With the two level transom I plan on partying off the back of the boat, just don't see the need to go in bow first, am I missing something?

 

[HangOutdoors]

@kgower Not sure where you boat or what type of water. On inland lakes around here, some, not all, only place I can get ashore is at the dock and usually they will have areas on either side of the dock that are sandy-ish. Can't anchor off there either. So you either dock, and when I say dock, they are the length of my boat or not much longer and they are always full with boats going in and out, so no way to hold that up for 15-20 minutes. So the only solutions is to come and beach the first couple feet of the boat. The water is usually murky around there and who knows what people have put in the water, fishing hooks, bottles, other stuff etc.

 

[kgower]

@kgower Not sure where you boat or what type of water. On inland lakes around here, some, not all, only place I can get ashore is at the dock and usually they will have areas on either side of the dock that are sandy-ish. Can't anchor off there either. So you either dock, and when I say dock, they are the length of my boat or not much longer and they are always full with boats going in and out, so no way to hold that up for 15-20 minutes. So the only solutions is to come and beach the first couple feet of the boat. The water is usually murky around there and who knows what people have put in the water, fishing hooks, bottles, other stuff etc.

Most days will either be spent Lake Anna in Mineral VA mostly sandy bottom or on the Potomac River In and just south of D.C. mixed bottom depending on location.