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Got away twice!
Last summer my wife and I went aground twice during five weeks in British Columbia. First we were exiting Roche Harbor on an outgoing tide and eased into sandy bottom. My first reaction was let's do a 180 and get back out of here which I did. Still stuck! I put the engine in full ahead and began moving my tiller from hard a port to hard a starboard. This technique succeeded by cork screwing my keel through the sand until it released from the bottom.
The second grounding was at the a marina in Eagle Harbor on Bainbridge Island, WA. After arriving after dusk we tied up just behind several power boats from our Tacoma Yacht Club. I awoke the next morning and stepped off the boat realizing the distance down was farther than it should have been. Stuck again! I used the same technique and after ten minutes we came free. Another sandy bottom.
Jim Copeland
Tacoma
SV Skyhook
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