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    Re: Sailboat on the beach at Treehouse?

    Quote Originally Posted by ThePachenas View Post
    Yesterday (Feb 1), they had a pump that was used to clean the sand around the keel. Keel was clear, and then used pump to fill barrels attached to halyard.

    Boat heeled enough and was bobbing, meaning it was floating.

    Had a large rope around the boat to a large concrete “anchor”, then through heavy tackle back to shore where digger was used to pull.

    Anchor pulled free instead.
    Quote Originally Posted by ThePachenas View Post
    Yesterday (Feb 1), they had a pump that was used to clean the sand around the keel. Keel was clear, and then used pump to fill barrels attached to halyard.

    I don’t know anything but if they freed the keel and it’s on it side,wouldn’t that have been the time to try and tow it from the front to deeper water? The weight on the mast would have kept it on its side until it was deep enough to right it...

    Boat heeled enough and was bobbing, meaning it was floating.

    Had a large rope around the boat to a large concrete “anchor”, then through heavy tackle back to shore where digger was used to pull.

    Anchor pulled free instead.
    I don’t know anything but wouldn’t that have been the time to tow it from the front to deeper water. If the keel was free and the weight on the mast would have kept her on her side until deep enough to right her.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Weeboy1 View Post
    I don’t know anything but wouldn’t that have been the time to tow it from the front to deeper water. If the keel was free and the weight on the mast would have kept her on her side until deep enough to right her.
    They tried, but the anchors they were using pulled free.

    Anchors moved towards shore instead of boat moving towards anchor.

    Need stronger anchors, or less resistance.
    Last edited by ThePachenas; 02-03-2020 at 12:20 PM. Reason: Added quote, for context

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    Re: Sailboat on the beach at Treehouse?

    This morning, moderately large waves.

    Boat has turned around and is again bow towards beach.

    Cement weights are still on beach.

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