Raleigh North Carolina and surrounding areas

Vacation!

 

Mine doesn't start until tomorrow at 330pm! Even though my girls are in college and doing their own things, I take a spring break!

 

On my couch as usual

 

I was being a smart ass.

 

Seems like you are at the right place then...lol

 

Not allowed here...

 

Underestimated the tide and accidentally dry docked the boat for a couple hours today

 

I have never in my life ever done that before.

There is a sand bar in front of our beach house where the ICW and the channel leading into the bay meet and guys all the time try and cut across there it is hilarious especially when a big ol cabin cruiser goes across there and gets stuck even at high tide it isn't very deep. A jet skier once at low tide came to a complete stop and went flying over the handle bars skipping across the sand. I paddled out there to check on him and he saw me coming and rushed to get going again so I guess he was ok just pride hurt.

 

Haha I know we were a hot talking point for a lot of boaters today. Oh well.. none of us needed to go anywhere so it gave me plenty more time to continue fishing haha

 

You were trying to be like the tourists and fit right in!

 

You weren't the only ones there were a few on the north side of figure 8.

 

Well that’s good.

 

So what do you do in a case like this? Just wait for the tide to come back in?

 

Yep or if you aren't beached too bad get someone to pull you off or if you are feeling froggy try and push it off. It doesn't take a lot of water to semi float a small skiff like @Dangerdave has so you could push it off the sand.

 

Had a couple people cream sand bars trying to follow me lol

 

That is a lesson learned don't try and follow a boat with poling platform into the flats. Unless of course you have a soloskiff, ghenoe, or yak then you go further than them!

 

Exactly! Started out on a yak then a gheenoe then poling skiff lol

 

I'd love to have a larger poling skiff I could take the yak to the really skinny stuff. But I have been really looking at the inshore/offshore boats like Barker and Young27.

 

Yea we were fully beached (as in no water at all under the boat haha)

When that happens you just wait it out. Our boat is a flat bottom and can float in about 8 inches of water so we just hung out til the tide came back in. I’m not even certain a tow boat could have snatched us off the sand. We were being lazy when we anchored and knew we should have moved the boat but it didn’t really matter that much to us cause we planned on being out all day anyway.