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