Hello All, About 15 years ago I was taking my 14 foot aluminum boat for a ride on the San Francisco Bay. As I was heading out from the launch ramp across the inlet from the Port of Redwood City I saw a sailboat aground on the side of the slough. The tide was falling so I motored over to see if I could help. The captain wanted me to try to pull him off, but that did not work. So on my own I decided to do a little dredging under his boat. I backed up right to his stern and took off at full throttle. Since I had a 25 horse outboard I pushed a lot of water. After about 2 seconds I throttled down and backed up to his stern again and repeated the procedure. I did this four or five times and then the sailboat's captain started his inboard and was able to back out of the mud.
Before leaving I pointed to the channel marker (25 feet further off shore than he was when he ran aground) and recommended he not cut inside the markers in the future. In other words, yes, a small shallow draft boat can move enough mud to help free a grounded boat, if it is aground on sand or soft mud. Eric Thompson S/V Procrastinator South San Francisco [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
