The best way to stay out of trouble of the type that you are having is
to preplan each thing that you want to do. Consider all alternatives
and have several alternate plans. A boat is not like a car. When
coming onto a beach study the beach before you commit to coming ashore.
I don't remember seeing any one back their boat onto the beach. Usually
they will coming in slowly until the bow touches. One will get into the
water and then will haul the boat around after getting the motor out of
the water.

Watch what other boaters are doing are they zooming through an area that
you want to go through or are they avoiding it by going around it.

The best rules for a newcomer is observe, plan and go slow. Hitting an
obstruction will be significantly different at 5 mph than at 25.


Trevor Dennis wrote:

Wayne. B writes

Better yet, why not take some safe boating courses and try to find
some knowledgable folks who can go out with you a few times and show
you the ropes. You've been lucky so far that all injuries have been
to the boat.

And the cost of the course would be a lot less than his repair bill.
I've just done the RYA powerboat level two here in the UK. Apart from
the obvious, they taught us stuff I might never have worked out for
myself.
Money very well spent.

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