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I've grown up with outboards and we would beach them all the time. I'm a little bit more skeptical with the moomba due to the tracking fins,driveshaft prop and rudder.
Do y'all ever beach your boats? I'm referring to bumping into gear and back into neutral then gliding up onto sand then pulling the boat by person up a bit to set it.
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If your going to do that often I recommend you buy and install a stick in keel protector for the front portion of the hull.
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I beach all the time. Where I boat (havasu) everyone beaches in the channel. I don't beach on rocks (if at all possible). My keel has a few scratches but nothing major. My buddy with an MB had some gnarly gouges on his 16 B52. He just recently got those fixed and is installing a keel guard.
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do it all the time on soft beaches. prefer to set it off a bit and float, but sometimes that just does not really work out.
I just ordered Keel Shield off amazon, had one on my I/O, installing it on my new to me Supra... where I go, the drop off is still significant enough that the skegs and prop should still be a foot or more from bottom. Guess it would depend on how the slope is where you beach...
I do it all the time, but only if I know that it's soft sand.
Never. What is gained? Back it up and anchor out a little bit offshore. Plus you can hear your tunes that way. [emoji41]
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never. 2 anchors. boater4life taught me how to use 1 in front and 1 sideways off the transom.
soft sand is not problem, sometimes the prop will get in the sand and then its a pain to get unstuck-depending on water depth you may want to leave it in forward gear and "dredge" out a area for the prop
Just suck at anchoring I guess hahaQuote:
Originally Posted by russellsmojo
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