Paulo, while I enjoyed your video posts, and there appears to be little or no damage to the keels or the hull keel joint, it requires a experience eye to determine how bad the damage. Just ask the crew of the Cynthia Woods.
Wolfenzee, having spent 35+ years boating the PNW, some of it commercial fishing, some of it cruising throughout many rivers and inlets of BC, Alaska and Washington including the Fraser, a river that moves 20 million tons of sediment every year. Keeping this in mind, if you're outside the channel markers on any arm of the Fraser River
Delta you're on your own.
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This should have actually been beneficial as 1 meter is about 3 feet. If your were siting in 5 meters of water, thinking it was 5 feet, it would be closer to 15 feet; so I really don't understand where you're going with this thread, other than sinking deeper into the sand.
By the by, the quote you attribute to Slocum wasn't actually by him and the fact that his circumnavigation took place in 1909, effectively removes him from the argument with today's availability of modern
charts,
GPS and the like. (I have to add that Slocum disappeared in November 1909 while aboard his boat, the Spray) While I applaud your attempt of rationalizing incompetence, it's a ludicrous idea that in these modern times with the availability of updated
charts and depth sounders that "you're not a boater till you've grounded out". Perhaps this argument should be employed in the defense of the
Costa Concordia's captain.
At high tide, fish eat ants; at low tide, ants eat fish. ~ Thai saying.