Hard grounding on overnight trip.

[CalebD]

Originally Posted by speciald

I stood my C&C with a wing keel in the ICW on a falling tide. Luckily, I had a dinghy and set two anchors out on each side. The water got so shallow the depthfinder transducer came out of the water. We sat there for 8 hours until the tide returned. I also hit a world war II concrete barge in the St. John's River while doing about 8 knots - that was a sudden stop. My wife reminds me that I have run our current boat aground at the same place twice in Road Town Harbor. You havn't been sailing long enough if you havn't run aground.

Too true.
I'm glad to hear that others have 'stood' their wing keeled boats on a tidal flat somewhere else. I hadn't heard of boats with winged keel configurations boasting that they can stand up in a falling tide before like the double keeled Westerly's. I expected us to topple over at some point which never happened. We were lucky enough to be at the bottom of the ebb and only waited 5 hours before the flood picked us up again.

Originally Posted by FishSticks

If you're transiting the Anisquam Canal in Cape Ann it's advisable to bring a clam fork.

OK. I'll bite. Do you mean a clam rake or a clam fork for the Anisquam Canal and why?

[St Anna]

A friend tells of hitting a bommy while entering an anchorage in the Louisiades. As the tide moved, his keel pounded the reef and his masthead lights came down around his ears. When I 'touched' and was talking about my experience, he reminded me of his [and I shut up!] He had a few bumps and scratches to fix on his Bowman 47