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Thread: Beaching an Inboard
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05-26-2010, 04:15 PM #1Senior Member
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Beaching an Inboard
I just traded from an outboard Deckboat that we put a bizillion hours on to a 2009 Outback. Once or twice a Summer we get all the extended family out to a Public Park on West point Lake in GA, that has a Beach that we always pulled the old deck boat up on to trade out passengers. Do any of you beach your boats occasionally, if you check the bottom for rocks and stumps, and make sure she's not running when it's close, etc..?????
Thanks for considering!!!
Darren
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05-26-2010, 04:28 PM #2
I don't. Not a chance. I'm sure you will have a few that do, but I'd be willing to bet for the most part, most will say NO WAY!
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05-26-2010, 04:32 PM #3
Not unless you want to risk bottom damage or sucking debris into the impeller. I've never beached a boat and never will for those reason besides the fact that it wears the hell out of the gelcoat. I anchor stern to shore at least ten feet out and walk the boat in to a safe depth of no less than three feet for passengers to load. They wanna go, they get wet. Or i'll pick them up at a dock.
2007 Mobius LSV
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05-26-2010, 04:41 PM #4Senior Member
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I am the same as Razz on this one. I have a bungee rope on my ancher line. I tie a rope on the stern and tie this to a tree on shore then pull the boat in when we are loading up and let her float out in deep water when we are on the beach chillin.
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05-26-2010, 04:59 PM #5
I'll have to agree..I keep a second anchor to tie down the rear of the boat when I want to park it next to the shore. Just not worth damaging it to me.
2006 Mobius XLV
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05-26-2010, 05:11 PM #6
I haven't beached my boat regularly, but I do dock it in a very shallow boat slip. To avoid any risk to the impeller I'd just shut it off and walk it into the beach. When you are ready to go walk it back out. Right?
2013 Outback V
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05-26-2010, 05:25 PM #7
2007 Moomba Outback - going, going, GONE
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Why Not? Play Hard! Get wet
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05-26-2010, 05:36 PM #8
I beach when letting people out but I catch the boat first and walk it in and sometimes I beach a boat when there are no waves, rocks, wind or boats. I turn the boat around to get the sounds and when there is wave action. Some places you have no choice as the back of the boat may be eight feet deep.
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05-26-2010, 06:59 PM #9Senior Member
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I have beached all of my boats. Only at places where I know the bottom is sand. My first boat was beached at least twice per day (to get or put away the truck during launch/retrieval) with no ill effects. Always slowly and then I used forward throttle to "dig a hole" for the prop.
This does put a lot of debris into the water, so you must check your impeller often (though I never had an issue with that either).1997 MasterCraft 205
2008 Moomba Outback
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1999 Malibu Response LX
1987 Marlin Magnum Skier
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05-26-2010, 07:53 PM #10