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Originally Posted by Pete7
The other reason for asking (and it is still a pipe dream at the moment) I did wonder if we could dryout on our twin keels which would be useful and save the cost of lifting her out.
Pete
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Interesting
concept. A few years ago I watched a French sailor with a lifting
keel alminium yacht
motor right up onto the beach at No Mans Land in Buccoo,
Tobago. He tied the
boat to a couple of palm trees and proceeded to scrub the bottom. I dont think he stayed the night but I could be wrong. The local fishermen do the same all over the
Caribbean. They just get pulled up onto the beach by a land rover or something similar. On windward beach in Carriacou they still build wooden trading boats by hand on the beach. I saw one being launched last summer. Quite a spectacle. They hack all the props on one side with an axe until the
boat is laid over and then try and pull it out to sea, over palm tree rollers on the sand, with blocks and tackles secured to a big
sea anchor. Not terribly successfully, the
anchor was not set. Earlier the owner had to perform a ritual to the sea gods by beheading a chicken and scattering its blood, while the local pastor gave his blessing. Might just mess up your decks a bit