Drop down to the nearest Boy Scout shop and borrow or buy a Sky Hook.

Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:

On Mon, 30 May 2005 16:23:43 GMT, "rcoleman"
wrote:

Out goofing around yesterday, and found a 23' sailboat high and dry, maybe
15yds from a navigable creek. I'm guessing it could be dragged over the
marsh and into the water, but even with a really high lunar tide, it's going
to take some force. There isn't anything across from it to secure a winch,
and the creek isn't deep enough to get a big boat in to drag it off.

Any idea how I can do this?

A few ideas come to mind.

Cut a channel from the boat to the creek with a backhoe or dig it
yourself - fifteen yards isn't that far.

Cut it up into little pieces, move them, then reassemble them where
you want it.

Rent a skycrane to move it.

Ignore it and get on with your life.

Depending on how wide the creek is, you could put a truck on the
opposite side, install a drag line on a five rove block&tackle and
just pull it into the creek. This is probably how I would do it
assuming there is access to the other side of the creek.

Ironically I want to float it to another location and beach it there.

Which begs the question, why? :)

Later,

Tom