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19-09-2016, 10:33
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Fiji Airways/ Lake Ontario
Boat: Legend 37.5, 1968 Alcort Sunfish, Avon 310
Posts: 2,749
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Grounded!
Yes, ran aground. Right in my home port.
We wanted to anchor near a sandbar which has demonstrated significant shifting this year (more than I've ever seen in my lifetime.)
I approached in what should have been 15' of water. Watching the sounder tick off...6'...5'... I'm looking over the side figuring that the sounder is bouncing off the tops of weeds, weeds that should be right here.
4'...3.3' what? I can't see any bottom, but nor do I see weeds. Odd. OK, heck with it. I went forward and dropped the anchor which stopped. Oops, it was on end with the shank visible. Then thump thump as we bounced on the sand.
I couldn't believe it! Of course backed off, dropped much farther out and took the dinghy in. Found that visibility was less than 2 feet, probably due to algae and the recent rains.
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19-09-2016, 10:48
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: Nanaimo BC
Boat: modified Spray 56' oa
Posts: 378
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Re: Grounded!
Maybe a new sounder???
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19-09-2016, 12:17
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Fiji Airways/ Lake Ontario
Boat: Legend 37.5, 1968 Alcort Sunfish, Avon 310
Posts: 2,749
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Re: Grounded!
Quote:
Originally Posted by topmast
Maybe a new sounder???
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Don't think so the sounder was correct!
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19-09-2016, 12:22
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cruiser
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Pangaea
Posts: 10,856
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Re: Grounded!
Don't worry about it, 'eventually happens to everyone. The charts aren't always correct.
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19-09-2016, 12:46
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Denmark (Winter), Cruising North Sea and Baltic (Summer)
Boat: Cutter-Rigged Moody 54
Posts: 34,198
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Re: Grounded!
I hate to break this to you, but bouncing off a sandbar is not the same as being aground!
That's no big deal and not worth confessing. Welcome to the club!
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19-09-2016, 15:48
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: Nanaimo BC
Boat: modified Spray 56' oa
Posts: 378
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Re: Grounded!
Tetepare, That was a joke. Gotta blame your equipment or know where to point the finger .
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19-09-2016, 16:15
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Key West & Sarasota
Boat: Cal 28 "Happy Days"
Posts: 4,210
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Re: Grounded!
Those who say they have never touched bottom are either very new to boats... or outright liars!
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19-09-2016, 16:56
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: On the boat, somewhere in Australia.
Boat: Swanson 42 & Kelly Peterson 44
Posts: 9,271
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Re: Grounded!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tetepare
Yes, ran aground. Right in my home port.
We wanted to anchor near a sandbar which has demonstrated significant shifting this year (more than I've ever seen in my lifetime.)
I approached in what should have been 15' of water. Watching the sounder tick off...6'...5'... I'm looking over the side figuring that the sounder is bouncing off the tops of weeds, weeds that should be right here.
4'...3.3' what? I can't see any bottom, but nor do I see weeds. Odd. OK, heck with it. I went forward and dropped the anchor which stopped. Oops, it was on end with the shank visible. Then thump thump as we bounced on the sand.
I couldn't believe it! Of course backed off, dropped much farther out and took the dinghy in. Found that visibility was less than 2 feet, probably due to algae and the recent rains.
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Don't feel bad. I ran aground right outside our club earlier this year, in full view of all the members and the local harbour control tower, at 6.5 knots, on a falling tide. Took the bigger of the local rescue boats to pull me off, his twin 300HP combined with my 100HP before I budged.
All it cost me was my dignity and a carton of beer.
Oh yeah, and the sandbar HAD moved. Just sayin'.
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20-09-2016, 05:56
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Fiji Airways/ Lake Ontario
Boat: Legend 37.5, 1968 Alcort Sunfish, Avon 310
Posts: 2,749
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Re: Grounded!
Quote:
Originally Posted by GILow
Don't feel bad. I ran aground right outside our club earlier this year, in full view of all the members and the local harbour control tower, .
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I totally blew a dock landing this year. Same boat, same dock, two decades. Blessed as I was, NOBODY was there to see it!
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20-09-2016, 06:21
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Long Beach, CA
Boat: Tayana Vancouver 42
Posts: 2,804
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Re: Grounded!
I do hope your wife was on board. She gives you the perfect out. You can always blame your wife for most any calamity like so many other sailors do.😉
S/V B'Shert
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20-09-2016, 06:35
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Back on dirt in Florida
Boat: Currently in between
Posts: 1,338
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Re: Grounded!
Quote:
Originally Posted by GILow
and the sandbar HAD moved. Just sayin'.
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Atta Boy!
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20-09-2016, 07:51
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2016
Posts: 317
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Re: Grounded!
If there were no pictures taken it didn't happen. Witnesses are highly unreliable.
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20-09-2016, 08:00
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#13
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2016
Location: Hanging out along the Gulf Coast
Boat: 81 Hunter Cherubini 27
Posts: 372
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Re: Grounded!
Quote:
Originally Posted by capngeo
Those who say they have never touched bottom are either very new to boats... or outright liars!
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Or have never left the dock.....
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20-09-2016, 08:30
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: SF Bay Area
Boat: Islander 34
Posts: 5,486
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Re: Grounded!
Touching a sandbar a time or two is just the braille method of finding bottom. It's also good for cleaning the keel...
It's a good way to check calibration of the depth sounder. If your not there for 12 hours, your not aground.
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20-09-2016, 08:46
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cat herder, extreme blacksheep
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: furycame alley , tropics, mexico for now
Boat: 1976 FORMOSA yankee clipper 41
Posts: 18,967
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Re: Grounded!
i made the shoal in san diego bay a part of my monthly hull cleaning--used to be folks were allowed to anchor out-- we went in the steelie i was with, from north to south bay's crown cove-- i judged it so well we always lost depth sounder from cleaning it on the shoals ledge. the island inmiddle of crown cove became a n issue as i had just cleaned the sounder and it was still non functional--hahahaha. friends helped me off the island which was showing increasingly more with each passing minuet ha h ah ah a
and then there was barra de navidad lagoon-- after coaching the punta to playa chant, i ran aground semi-softly on an outgoing tide on my way out of the lagoon for my last time for a while...we were still in very very slow motion, so i figgered we werent that hard aground, and my friend miyo was driving taxi panga, so no evidence was presented for the remaining cruisers not yet out of barrra for summer. at least i got the growth off the bottom of my keel. blessing was--i left at 2030, so no witnesses other than my friend miyo.
if you aint been aground ye aint been around. i learned that at age 8 or 9 when we grounded uncle phils sloop and used lead lines and knots lines the boom to shorten our 6 ft draft... and learned to take bearings. remember we had no engine.
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