"imagineero" wrote in message
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Here's a question from a resourceful person (read idiot)

Are there any alternatives to slipping a boat when you're miles from
anywhere and need to get the hull out of the water for repairs, or just
because you're too cheap to pay for it when you want to paint your
hull?

The boat in question is a thunderbird 26, plywood with 5' draft. Can
you just motor it up as high as you can onto a beach and prop it up
with something then wait for the tide to go out? Will the keel sink
into mud/sand and get stuck there, unable to re-float?

if everything goes wrong and the whole lot falls over, will it flood
when the cabin when the tide comes back in and never float again?

This is what happense when you've had a boring day at work and start
imagining things ;-)

Thanks,
Shaun Van Poecke
Australia

No imagination here, careening has been done for centuries and is still the
option of choice for many cruisers that either don't have facilities or $$$
for a haul out and need to do bottom work. You should be able to find some
online resources to help.

John Cairns