How do you beach an I/O?

jayelwin

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May 24, 2015
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Shrewsbury River
Boat Info
2004 Sea Ray 220 Bowrider
Engines
Mercury 5.0 250hp
I'm new to I/O boating having bought a 220 with an alpha 1 on a 5.0. I'm very familiar with beaching an outboard. I'm guessing I just have to stay off the beach with my new boat. Is there any way to get on the beach dry? (Of course I could anchor and wade in but there's only so much stuff you can balance on your head in chest deep water.)


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Same as beaching an outboard.... make your approach fast enough then kill the engine and raise the drive as you glide into the beach. With that said, I am personally not a fan of beaching....not good for the gelcoat on the bottom and generally not good for the outdrive.
 
Take a look at a product called Anchor Buddy. It lets you bring the boat in close to shore, step off, then the elasticity of Anchor Buddy pulls the boat back offshore a ways. Take a look at their website and you'll see what I mean.
 
No you don't run it into the beach, unless you don't like gelcoat or out drives,. Stop short, get out, like knee waist deep, and carefully pull it up and do whatever you have to do depending on location and tide
 
Back when I had my first boat, a used 1990 model 180 Sport, I beached it one time. That was enough for me. When I bought the new Sport 190 last year, I had no desire to beach it, just too much trouble and I did not want to scrape that new gelcoat across the bottom.

The main reason I would want to beach, would be to grill out for lunch, so I got a Magma grill for my new boat and attach it to my bimini pole so it hangs out over the water, now we just anchor in a cove and I do my grilling right there on the boat. If we decide on one of our outings we want to get out of the boat for a while, I just go to the nearest marina and tie up there.
 
Not a fan of beaching for the reasons already mentioned - not often, but when I do, I will anchor stern to off the beach and tie a line off to a tree or something on land. If you do this often you want to get a second stern anchor. If you just beach your boat stern out, it does not take much wave action or tide change to leave you stuck and in a real mess.
 
In a quite cove in deeper water that I know. I will turn backward to shore and set an anchor on the front of boat.Then my wife will kick it in to reverse for a second then turn motor off, trailer out drive coast back toward shore then stop the boat with anchor normally ladder deep.Set an anchor or land stake at shore unload boat then set shore line pull boat a little off shore with forward anchor. Then wait for some knuckle head to come by kicking up a big wave to make sure every thing is set.

 
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Then wait for some knuckle head to come by kicking up a big wave to make sue every thing is set.

Lol...that's the best way to test your anchor. Works great in a quiet cove too...you can be the only one in the cove and within 10 minutes of setting the anchor some idiot will come in too fast and anchor too close despite having the whole place to spread out.
 

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