Dont forget about the tide

[Ean Austral]

Gday All,

Was looking thru some old pics and came across this 1. This is dropping the anchor to close to a reef and the tide going out. If you look at the front boats bow, most of it is actually not sitting on anything, just fresh air.

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A good way to spoil your day...

Cheers Ean

[Chops]

At least you can get under it and clean it easily, well, one side anyway :D
Nice looking boat Ean, any more pics of her?

[Pedro_The_Swift]

so,, did you get her off ok?:angel::p

[Ean Austral]

so,, did you get her off ok?:angel::p

May be hard to believe, but I wasnt responsible for that effort.:eek: That boat belongs to a friend, but yes next high tide all was fine.

Cheers Ean

[Pedro_The_Swift]

not hard at all--
:Rolling::p




so, why doesnt the front boat have derricks(?) like the one behind?

[Ean Austral]

not hard at all--
:Rolling::p




so, why doesnt the front boat have derricks(?) like the one behind?

At the time the front one was a mothership, thats the reason the small one is hanging off the back.

Cheers Ean

[Bigbjorn]

If they were Naval craft, then that was the end of career aspirations for the skippers, and probably a few juniors by association.

[Yorkie]

use to do that on my dads yacht on the humber back in the uk, big sandbank down the middle and could get high and dry and give the underside a scrap. :D

[roverrescue]

so thats where the failcraft mob got their advertising ideas from.
I hope your mates got some credit ean!

The smaller trawler looks to have her cooling coils on the high side, i wonder if the big girl was sitting on hers? That woul bring some anxiety on the run in i would think!

Steve