beaching boat???

[DADDY228]

bought boat new in feb 08 it is a 18ft crestliner. after my annual trip to canada there is a 18in wide by 3ft long section of paint on the bow that is missing paint or all scratched up. had a guy tell me that he has seen people wear down the bow to the point it leaked. I had a 14ft with a 15hp that i beached for 10 years no leaks ever. should i be worried because of the weight of my new rig over my old one. When we head to canada we take the boats to our camp site and anyone who fishes canada knows it is not a beach but more like a rock pile. the biggest prob. is the wind rocking the boat while it is beached that scratch the bow and takes the paint off. this is why i bought tin and not glass should i be worried or is this a bunch of BS

[went522]

We used to camp on an island for a week every year, wasn't much for sand, pretty much gravel/rock. After the first year of beating the bottom of the boat, keel guard didn't help much, we did a couple things...one was we filled a tire with concrete and inserted a eye bolt, rope and bouy to the surface and we were able to anchor up just off shore and wader in. Worked ok but heavy to move around. After that year we took a 5'x2' chunk of rubber belting in with us, placed it down in the water and pulled right up on it. It stayed in place, pretty easy to move around and took up no space in the boat, just layed it on the floor before we headed for the island and loaded it back up when we left...it saved the bottom of the boat!!

Might want to consider doing something like the rubber belting, or piece of rubber bed mat.

At the same time, I used to beach the heck out of my yarcraft, bottom was beat to HEII, never leaked but looked terrible. It was a older boat, not worth much so it didn't bother me. But beaching the new boats bugged me, didn't want it looking like the yarcraft.

Will yours leak or get punctured?? Hard to say. Surely having all the paint wore off and scratched on a new boat is no fun, that alone would make me do something.

BIRDDOG

[DW]

Along the same line as a rubber matt, we used to always use a worn, unmounted tire. Place the tire partially, or fully underwater at the shoreline, and lift and pull the boat over the tire when beaching the boat. You will need to tie the bow off to a shore anchor because the wave action will rock the boat off the tire.

[Bill Krejca]

These are all pretty good ideas. Having camped up north for many years, additionally I found that throwing an anchor out the back helped keep the back end from swinging around due to wave action. The further away the anchor, the better, just remember to pull the anchor in before leaving.

Bill Krejca

[lund rebel]

I make a trip once a year to Canada, and what works good for me is, to drop the motor down until the skag is in the sand it stables the boat. in the event of a storm coming in I will take turn the boat into the storm out in the water far enough so the transom bottom of the boat wont touch bottom, and anchor the bow with both anchors. I have had good luck with this.

[propmann]

We seen were people didn't get to their boat fast enough to get their motor back up and they snap the skeg right off.

[TomP.]

What I have done in the past along rock shorelines.. I have a 150 foot anchor rope I unhook my anchor from the end of my rope. Hook that end to my rear cleat run my rope through the anchor as I am coming in drop the anchor about 50 feet from shore. Once I am on the beach hook my front rope to my front cleat and then pull the rope from the anchor to move my boat about 5 feet off shore tie it off and the front rope..

If I am in an area that is open to strong winds coming into the shoreline I will do the same thing only turn the boat around bow out and leave more anchor rope out. More of a pain to get in the boat have to wade some but still better then a sunk boat from waves coming over the transom

[Seedtree]

I've taken an old rug and placed that on shore as a keel protector. Hold the rug down with a rock or tent stake on the corners and put a stick in the ground exactly where you want the keel to be. Also, clear out as many rocks as you can before putting the rug down. For late fishing, we will tie a light stick to the keel marker stick to guide us to the exact spot.

Also, trim up and coast in. When you get close, jump over board and stop your boat's momentum before the keel touches. Have people and gear off loaded as far towards the stern as possible. Keep people out of the boat when onshore - don't grind the keel into the rocks. When loading, have people move to stern to keep from grinding into rocks. When landed, lift bow and manhaul as far on shore as possible and tie up tight - this will minimize movement under wind and wave.

Try to land into the prevailing wind and/or in protected bays. Offshore wind means less waves and makes launching a bit easier.

My .02s.

[grunny71]

you may want to check out a product called anchor buddy. we sell them at our store and have had alot of good comments on them.

[Waxy]

Originally Posted by lund rebel

I make a trip once a year to Canada, and what works good for me is, to drop the motor down until the skag is in the sand it stables the boat. .

Yikes.

No offense, but that doesn't seem like a very good option to me. You're putting a lot of stress on the outboard and the transom. I think you're asking for trouble in the event of any kind of wind or waves.

Waxy