On 8/14/2014 6:41 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 18:14:32 -0400, wrote:
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 17:24:05 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 15:33:36 -0400, wrote:
I still wonder why it costs $150k to live a normal life.
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Then you need a bigger boat. :-)
I have all the boat I can get up the river.
If I hit the mega lotto I might pay to dredge out the whole thing so I
could get a 40 footer. ;-)
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If you get something with big props and a fair amount of power, you
could dredge it a little at a time with prop wash.
There's a name for that, but I've forgotten what it is. Not an
"official" name ... more of a humor thing. "Panamanian dredging" or
something like that.
I did a bit after my first grounding on the ICW. A sand bar had
developed right in the middle of the channel beside an inlet from the
ocean following a storm. Fortunately I had heard it was there on the
radio and was going slow so no damage was done but the soft sand was
enough to keep stalling the engines when trying to pull back off the
sand bar in reverse. After a few tries I put the shifts in "forward"
and was able to slowly kick the RPM's up a bit without the boat moving
forward and held it there for a while. Then, I shifted to reverse. It
was enough to create a couple of mini channels behind the props and
rudders and allowed me to pull the boat off the sand bar into deeper water.