AGROUND PART 3: PATIENCE, AFLOAT -- CALL TO ACTION

Aground Part 3 of this four-part mini-series -- Patience and monitoring the tide and watching the chart plotter. Soon I have floated off, and the drift shows the anchor dragging and heading toward shallow water! Had to jump to action! See Part 4 for the result and summary of the learnings in this navigational error I made.

[@qb6025]

I had same situation recently.
2hrs and 2 feet to low tide, at Lee shore, 15 knots, waves, midnight..
Ran motor for turning bow to the wind. 😅

[@respecttherisk2022]

Oh damn. Sorry to hear about that. That sounds more serious than my situation. How did it turn out? Were you and the boat ok? Any damage? When I did a haulout about a month later, there was no damage, only the bottom two feet of the keel had been washed clean by the sand - that was it. An "easy" and "cheap" lesson for me....

[@qb6025]

That day everything ended fine, thanks.
Yesterday I got another lesson, though, for a higher price: never leave any ropes in water... I decided to cool my beer on sea bottom, and left the sac on rope overnight there. Result - rope winded on shaft, and the strut broke off.