Uh...worst day ever!

[skinut]

So I'm driving along at about 20 mph and all of a sudden I spot a stick poking out of the water about 20 feet from the boat. I immediately drop the boat into neutral and in that instant the boat hits a giant sand bar. Well, 45 minutes, seven people, a couple of shovels, we finally get the boat off of the sand bar. Fortunately, no one was hurt and I managed to avoid ripping all of my running gear out of the bottom of the boat. In fact the only damage I could see was a small ding in the first skagg (sp). Whew, worst and probably best day ever.

[Horton]

@skinut It will be fine. I have beached boats a lot better than that. I was just smart enough to not take pictures or tell anyone.

[Than_Bogan]

I did that while driving a tournament. Misunderstood the markers and drove straight onto a sandbar. Miraculously no damage to boat, but took us a while to push free... probably wont live long enough for people to forget that one.

[thager]

Yup, you're toast. Failed the bar exam.

[Than_Bogan]

Hey no weapuns of mass destruction!

[klindy]

Haha. I saw that in a tournament years ago. Driver went behind the turn island and got a little shallow. Fin caught and out the entire boat on the beach. Completely on dry ground! Took us an hour to muscle it back into the water.

[thager]

@Than You funny guy!!! Or you spell like MS?

[cwillygood]

dang, with a 200 too, your one lucky duck nothing broke

[6balls]

U of Iowa ski team put on an exhibition downtown Iowa City on the Iowa River. Didn't know where the channel was located. Pulling a wake boarder hit the sand bar and the wake boarder went right on past us before sinking in to his ankles. No damage.

[Waternut]

Wow I always thought it was worse going shallow in these boats because you would tear the whole running gear off of these boats if you got too shallow. Apparently they are stronger than I thought. A friend practically ripped an I/O right out of the back doing less.

[Chuck_Dickey]

Sand bars can be fairly forgiving, same for muddy shorelines. It's the hard stuff that can take out your underwater gear.

[gregy]

My bother put one of my boats on a sand bar. Bent shaft, major prop damage, bent strut, bent rudder. He had some speed with a boat load of people. So it could have been a much worse day.