Beaching question

[DaveS]

How did we get from beaching boats to quick sand?
Fred

I guess we just kinda got sucked in :wink .

 

[Hunkydory]

Maybe I'm too cautious but I'm not a fan of setting the hull down with the tides. In my opinion there is too much risk that the boat may land on a rock or shells or whatever and cause damage. As the tide is coming and going there will be a period of time where the boat is moving a bit and rubbing in the sand acting like sand paper. This will remove some bottom paint or whatever it is touching. If the wind or waves pick up the sanding effect will be greater.

Capt Matt

All good points and should be taken into consideration before deciding on beaching just the bow to shore or letting the whole boat settle on the bottom with the tide. There is a lot of differences on how each of us decides to use our boats and the level of risk we are willing to accept to the boat and ourselves. These differences make us neither bettor or worse just different. Viva La Difference.

Jay

 

[El and Bill]

OK, Fred ... how did we get there? Well, the question was about beaching boats -- now to you New Englanders, you just drive up on the beach and when she stops you drop the hook. Others of us, living elsewhere, often gueeeesh through mud and gunk before we come to a stop, and then when we drop the hook she goes down 30 or 40 feet, and never hooks -- just oooozes to a stop.

It's all the fault of geology -- you nor'easters have good gravel and tough sand washed off the bedrock of New England. The rest of the east coast south of you gets the fine stuff winnowed out of your beaches and carried south by longshore currents; the Gulf coast is often squishy with glacial outwash filtered out by the long Miss so nothing but mud gets to the sea, and many interior lakes and rivers have glacial goo (otherwise known, at least in the s.w., as quicksand). So when Yankees jump overboard out of their native habitat (yep, there is something on the other side of the Hudson River) and they land on the 'beach' they often sink up to their chins! No comment, Yankee!! And it is a safety thing to know how to get out of goo if you are a poor misplaced New Englander.

So, now you can ask how beaching boats gets to a geology chat ... Best regard, ol' buddy El and Bill

 

[Hunkydory]

OK, Fred ... how did we get there? Well, the question was about beaching boats -- now to you New Englanders, you just drive up on the beach and when she stops you drop the hook. Others of us, living elsewhere, often gueeeesh through mud and gunk before we come to a stop, and then when we drop the hook she goes down 30 or 40 feet, and never hooks -- just oooozes to a stop.

It's all the fault of geology -- you nor'easters have good gravel and tough sand washed off the bedrock of New England. The rest of the east coast south of you gets the fine stuff winnowed out of your beaches and carried south by longshore currents; the Gulf coast is often squishy with glacial outwash filtered out by the long Miss so nothing but mud gets to the sea, and many interior lakes and rivers have glacial goo (otherwise known, at least in the s.w., as quicksand). So when Yankees jump overboard out of their native habitat (yep, there is something on the other side of the Hudson River) and they land on the 'beach' they often sink up to their chins! No comment, Yankee!! And it is a safety thing to know how to get out of goo if you are a poor misplaced New Englander.

So, now you can ask how beaching boats gets to a geology chat ... Best regard, ol' buddy El and Bill

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Jay