On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:24:49 -0500, John H.
wrote:

JimH was talking about all the sand he had to go through. I just don't do
it. If I'm in two feet of water at my beach, I get out, grab a rope and
pull the boat in. Why take the chance of hitting something that doesn't
show up on the depth/fish finder?

I could be wrong on this but I understood his situation to be more
complicated, something like a 2 ft sand bar followed by 6 ft of deep
water before he got to the beach. If he's in SWFL there's a lot of
skinny water to be negotiated at times.