Oops. Time for some trig.

[Bill O]

We don't go aground often, but similarly we have coffee, do some chores/play some cards and get the tender ready to row around the boat to find the best way out. Having the DF mounted to the tender hull makes it very easy to watch the depth and row at the same time.

Good luck.
Bill O.

[groundtackle]

Originally Posted by GILow

Nice moves... but... “usually”?

Does this happen often?

Sure. I'm 57 yrs and dad had me yachting early. On my own time and professionally I've make a big number of errors. Some are very amusing but others are gut wrenching. I've been on the beach in surf and almost lost our home. That's why I'm now your friendly neighborhood anchor salesman
It's supposed to be fun.
Chris

[Sailmonkey]

Originally Posted by GILow

Nice moves... but... “usually”?

Does this happen often?

So....what is X?

[GILow]

Originally Posted by groundtackle

Sure. I'm 57 yrs and dad had me yachting early. On my own time and professionally I've make a big number of errors. Some are very amusing but others are gut wrenching. I've been on the beach in surf and almost lost our home. That's why I'm now your friendly neighborhood anchor salesman

It's supposed to be fun.

Chris

Fair point. And sadly, they’ve yet to make a totally idiot-proof anchor.

I was deploying mine at the edge of the channel and didn’t realise that the reason the chain was paying out so nicely was because I was driving forward over the anchor, not drifting back downstream. I THOUGHT I’d freed the main sheet, but it turns out I hadn’t.

Turns out I didn’t need my sarca after that.

[GILow]

Originally Posted by Sailmonkey

So....what is X?

It turns out, my triangle didn’t fit that X. Mine would have been a 1/1/sqrt(2) triangle.

[GILow]

Originally Posted by Bill O

We don't go aground often, but similarly we have coffee, do some chores/play some cards and get the tender ready to row around the boat to find the best way out. Having the DF mounted to the tender hull makes it very easy to watch the depth and row at the same time.

Good luck.
Bill O.

Tender would have been good. Alas, I left it at the marina.

[SkipMark]

The final angle depends on the width of the boat.


But I'm sure you're afloat and well by now! Fair winds!

[groundtackle]

Prudent to romp around the seabed to make sure there is no sticky uppy bits when she lays down and rests. Get the fenders / blankets down for cushions to reduce hull rashes.
GILow, was the port leak messy?
Last year we enjoyed a spectacular haulout display in our backyard while we were anchored in some deeper water. It was a derelict sorta vessel with toe rail damage and she half filled. Beer cans and ashtrays were floating at 0600, very bad words echoed the bay at 0601. I have pics but that's just not very nice.
Another lesson.. plug all those holes way past heeled waterlines.
Chris

[hpeer]

I did that once on a sand bar in the DELAWARE River. Pretty fast current and about 7’ of overall fall.

What I discovered was that at some point she came to rest on her side on the sand bar thankfully BEFORE the water came up to the port lights or cockpit coaming.

Nice to know, but not worth the effort to find out for sure.

[Davidhoy]

Hey, that’s not so bad. With the full moon, the tides at our marina have been extreme, with dead low being about a foot lower than average. We draw almost 8ft, and we’re bumping the bottom regularly, but for the past few days a good chuck of the hull has been lifted clear of the water, even the bow thruster tunnel has been clear if the water! Since we live aboard, this has not been much fun, looking forward to normal tides again soon.

-David

[sabatini5918]

I calculate 60 degrees, but my trig is very rusty.

[evm1024]

I never run aground...




...but I've been known to anchor with my keel now and again.


Happyness is floating free.

[El Pinguino]

Just so long as she settled 'uphill' towards the land and not 'downhill' towards the channel. Mast at more than 90º would not be a good thing.....

Oh well.... sea cock sorted .... so you didn't run aground you careened her.....

And at least its coming up to springs and you weren't 'neaped'.

[deblen]

Were your cockpit drain lines crossed port to stbd? Did your cockpit drain seacocks work?

Hope all is well. / Len

[Spot]

Originally Posted by El Pinguino

Oh well.... sea cock sorted .... so you didn't run aground you careened her.....

That's right, skipper was 'taking care of business and working overtime'...