Geurk
New Member
- Oct 20, 2006
- 195
- Boat Info
- 2005 220 Select
- Engines
- 350 Mag w/Alpha 1 Drive
Corsa Exhaust
We do a lot of camping to prolong our boating experience each weekend. A lot of the 'premium' camp sites at the campground we use back right up to coves. A couple of them are protected by no wake zones, others not. But either way, the banks are all small chipped rocks. Not smooth sand or smooth rocks.
I could understand beaching a pontoon, and with enough lines, leaving it for a night. But a 'glass hulled boat? I don't think so. Sure, some people bring carpets that they put the bow on, but even then, in the areas not protected by no wake zones, the boat gets beat up pretty good against the shore.
Reason I bring it up, is behind our camp site this weekend three boats were tied up to the shore in a non protected wake zone. Two pontoons, with a small bowrider in the middle. Well, at dusk a few wakeboard boats decide that the area behind this cove would be a nice spot to 'board. Wake after wake crashed these boats into the shore enough to break lose the pontoon and made it drift side ways, and the bowrider broke loose just enough to sit right next to the front of the first 'toon on the pontoon. You can imagine what the side of the bowrider looked like after the wakeboarding session was done, the boat had slammed into this 'toon time and time again.
All of this damage could have been prevented with just a few extra minutes put towards pulling the boat out of the water and throwing it on your trailer, and parking it safely in your camp spot.
Do any of you leave your smaller boats beached overnight? I wouldn't be able to sleep well at just the thought of it.
I could understand beaching a pontoon, and with enough lines, leaving it for a night. But a 'glass hulled boat? I don't think so. Sure, some people bring carpets that they put the bow on, but even then, in the areas not protected by no wake zones, the boat gets beat up pretty good against the shore.
Reason I bring it up, is behind our camp site this weekend three boats were tied up to the shore in a non protected wake zone. Two pontoons, with a small bowrider in the middle. Well, at dusk a few wakeboard boats decide that the area behind this cove would be a nice spot to 'board. Wake after wake crashed these boats into the shore enough to break lose the pontoon and made it drift side ways, and the bowrider broke loose just enough to sit right next to the front of the first 'toon on the pontoon. You can imagine what the side of the bowrider looked like after the wakeboarding session was done, the boat had slammed into this 'toon time and time again.
All of this damage could have been prevented with just a few extra minutes put towards pulling the boat out of the water and throwing it on your trailer, and parking it safely in your camp spot.
Do any of you leave your smaller boats beached overnight? I wouldn't be able to sleep well at just the thought of it.