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Originally Posted by DAEpperson

My BIL fell asleep and grounded his 30' sailboat near La Jolla. They gave him 24hrs to get rid of it. Had to bring in an excavator that smashed it and loaded the remains on to several trucks. It cost him $35K. Last I heard I think he's gotten his insurance company to pay.

Holy Ouch!!! That hurts.

In college a buddy had a 14' or 18' Kris craft. We gong caught trying to camp on a small island in Tampa bay. A huge storm came in. The boat almost floated away, but a bunch of us pulled it as high as we could get it. The next morning, there were a bunch of feet of dry beach between the back of the boat and the water. Between lots of digging (by hand, IIRC) and lots of pushing and pulling, we managed to get it floating again. This boat looks a tad bigger.