Do you beach your boat?

[Buster]

We are about to join the ranks of ski-boaters. Right now we have a large inboard/outboard boat. One of the the things we like to do on any given weekend is to beach our boat (sandy bottom) at various locations around the lake we boat at to let everyone get out and stretch their legs. Is this something that you can do with a ski boat given the somewhat fragile nature of the hardware below the boat? :confused:

[MarkP]

This may help.

http://www.tmcowners.com/teamtalk/showthread.php?t=3499&highlight=Beach

[shepherd]

Go ahead and beach it, if it's sand. Just cruise straight in and cut power when you get into the shallow water, and let the boat coast on in. When you're ready to leave, just push the boat out by hand, let it drift into the deep water and fire her up!
The only "damage" you might see is some scuffing on the forefoot of the boat where it rubs the sand. IMO a small price to pay for the joys of beach living :D

[Calif_BobPerry]

Another great idea and we've done it for years is to purchase a bungy cord (West Marine or your local Boat shop) we just clip it to our anchor and toss it out around 30ft from shore.then idle your boat up to the shore and clip a line to your bow and let the "leg strechers" get off and the let the bungy pull your boat out and then tie off the bow line.(much safer for your boat especially if there's boats wakes rolling in to shore or if its windy).When its time to go just pull in the boat hop on pull up anchor and go.

[mcprostar197]

Go ahead and beach it, if it's sand. Just cruise straight in and cut power when you get into the shallow water, and let the boat coast on in. :D


Cruise straight in????? I would get out and walk it onto the beach.


Before I went up to the family cabin in WI, I asked the same question about beaching. When I got up there, I figured that its better to take a couple more minutes and anchor it away from the shore about 10 or so feet. I anchored with the bow pointing at the shore though so no damage could possibly be done to the prop, rudder, or fins when waves from passing boats came rolling in. Even if the beach is very sandy, you never know where there can be a big rock lurking just under the sand waiting bang up your prop or rudder. With such an expensive and nice boat, why would you ever want to take a chance with damaging it when you could easily anchor off shore and just get your legs wet walking in?