When's The Last Time You Ran Aground?

[Converse48]

I don't mean "touching down" I mean a grounding that stopped forward progress and required corrective action. By corrective action, I don't necesarily mean that you needed to be towed off, but examples of corrective action would be: kedging off, shifting into reverse, or jumping over board to push.

 

[JV II]

Once unintentionally in the middle of the Charles River. No markings or charts. Mud bottom rose up sharply, no damage. Props were not in.

 

[CAMELLA]

Once in the South River, a sail boat forced me outside the channel markers in the worst spot.

 

[trit21]

Once unintentionally in the middle of the Charles River. No markings or charts. Mud bottom rose up sharply, no damage. Props were not in.

When would someone run aground intentionally unless the boat is sinking, which I think we can all agree would not really be running around. As of yet....I haven't.fingers crossed.

 

[hack4alivin]

never, knock on wood.

Ditto, considering I do all my boating in the Chesapeake Bay I consider myself lucky.
But as sferg said “knock on wood”

 

[tdappleman]

I put myself down as never - but only used that since the others seemed to imply I needed to be towed off. Or at least that is how I interpreted 'corrective action'. I've hit sandbars, etc in my area as they are everywhere - but only at low speeds so simply backed off and found a slightly better path...:grin:

 

[AKBASSKING]

Well, I do a couple times a year!

But never with my SR. I have a 20' Alaska river boat with a jet and I run skinny water a lot chasing King Salmon and while hunting.

The first time I took the Admiral, we were going up this river and it split around an island. Near the top I ran out of water! I went WOT and as I hit the top of the split (kind of going uphill) I reach down and pulled the red cord. We launched into the air and landed in the main river which was about ankle deep.

She looked at me with wide open eyes and said" I don't like you much right now!":smt009

I pushed the boat off the rocks, got in the current and away we went where she caught her first ever King salmon. On the way back, I took the middle channel and bounced off a few rocks on the way down. I actually have cables and a come-a-long in my boat in case I get stuck.

She still doesn't like running skinny water.

 

[jrirvine1]

At a place called "Still Pond".

 

[wish2fish]

too bad crock01 is here. It would have been yesterday, the day before and the day before that!

 

[Vince_nj1]

I ran aground in the Rock Hall Maryland "Harbor". I just picked up my boat and pulled in this harbor for the night. I was idling, but the port engine stalled and I sat on the sand bar for about an hour waiting to float off. Thankfully, no damage.

I took this picture while I was sitting there. I should have been on the other side of that red channel marker. (I was a little rusty on my navigation)

 

[Converse48]

I ran aground in the Rock Hall Maryland "Harbor". I just picked up my boat and pulled in this harbor for the night. I was idling, but the port engine stalled and I sat on the sand bar for about an hour waiting to float off. Thankfully, no damage.

I took this picture while I was sitting there. I should have been on the other side of that red channel marker. (I was a little rusty on my navigation)

Vince-
Everybody runs aground the first time into Rock Hall. It is a rite of passage. My brother and I towed off a certain member of this board last year (who shall remain nameless).

 

[Vince_nj1]

Thanks I feel better now.

When I approached that marker I turned to my friend and said "So what do you think, which side?" Without hesitation he pointed to the inside. 5 seconds later I ran aground. :smt089

 

[Alex F]

I ran aground only once (knock on wood). This was on my first boat many years ago. At that time I had no idea what chartplotter meant. some time later I couldn't believe how is it possible to boat without one, but we did it for 6 yrs. I guess, the only thing that kept me safe was my rule "if it's under 6' under the boat I go slow, just above idle speed". I guess, this was the least I could do at the time due to lack of nautical education.

After upgrading to the next boat I always look to have proper equipment. Thus, I only touch the bottom very rarely while dropping an anchor. With my 320DA I had only couple of occasions (still while anchoring) due to mismatching chart data with actual depth.

 

[Morpheus]

too bad crock01 is here. It would have been yesterday, the day before and the day before that!

I was just thinking that haha he would be the only person I know that could select "I run aground weekly!"

My fiirst time I still blame Marine Max :grin: I was taking my boat to the Cape Haze location for some warranty work. I wish they had warned me how shallow it was in front of their location. They are on the intercoastal I saw their building and headed towards it not realizing their enterance was on the north side of their property and I was on the south end of it. Luckly I was at no wake to min wake speed when it happened. Stopped stalled the engine I was able to raise the drive up and back off and go around but straped up the skeg good.

 

[Converse48]

RH harbor is actually quite well marked, but it freaks people out when the arrive in that all they see is red daymarkers everywhere. Compound this with the fact that there are two routes through the harbor, the preferred being the direct route placing 2E to starboard and then heading up to split 4E to starboard and the green over red "RH" to port. The strip of green on the top of "RH" is the only green in the harbor. The alternative route is to go around the perimeter placing 2E, 8, 10, 12, 14 and "RH" to starboard. Either will work, but you have to pick one. Many people come in and knowing that there is a cut-through accidentally head for 6E instead of 4E. Oops.

Again, it's not so bad and and is well marked but the sea of red can cause confusion if you don't look at the chart in advance. Now that I think of it, this is the last time I ran aground, in 1993 when I placed my 26' Pacemaker on the earth in RH harbor!

 

[Larry&Leisa]

Once on our second trip out... I got a detailed map of the lake and learned how to somewhat read it for sandbars. (still embarasses me)

 

[Alex F]

Thanks I feel better now.

When I approached that marker I turned to my friend and said "So what do you think, which side?" Without hesitation he pointed to the inside. 5 seconds later I ran aground. :smt089

Vince,
When I'm facing similar situation and no marker is present I observe the sorroundings looking for clues like boats docked by a house. My logic is, if there's docked boat (good size boat) then there must be enough water for me to pass. But, of course my chartplotter is my first point of reference to see what lies ahead of me. I wunder what did your chartplotter showed in your situation? I would expect to see more water to your port side.:huh:

Also, for boats without chartplotter I would think the best rule that applies here is Red-Right-Return.

I'm glad you had no damage.:thumbsup:

 

[Vince_nj1]

:grin:

RH harbor is actually quite well marked, but it freaks people out when the arrive in that all they see is red daymarkers everywhere. Compound this with the fact that there are two routes through the harbor, the preferred being the direct route placing 2E to starboard and then heading up to split 4E to starboard and the green over red "RH" to port. The strip of green on the top of "RH" is the only green in the harbor. The alternative route is to go around the perimeter placing 2E, 8, 10, 12, 14 and "RH" to starboard. Either will work, but you have to pick one. Many people come in and knowing that there is a cut-through accidentally head for 6E instead of 4E. Oops.

Again, it's not so bad and and is well marked but the sea of red can cause confusion if you don't look at the chart in advance. Now that I think of it, this is the last time I ran aground, in 1993 when I placed my 26' Pacemaker on the earth in RH harbor!

Probably would have helped if I looked at the charts. I figured once inside harbor, you would have to be a idiot to run aground. I was the idiot that day :wow:.

 

[Pirate]

Oops. While on the TN River with 30 feet of water in all directions except for this one 5' x 5' submerged, rocky "mountain top".

Stalled both mains from 900RPM.

 

[JV II]

When would someone run aground intentionally unless the boat is sinking, which I think we can all agree would not really be running around. As of yet....I haven't.fingers crossed.

I beached the bow in the North River on a sandy spit to come ashore with the family. The transducer still showed 3 feet of water. It is commonly done with smaller boats and I found easy with the 290.