This thread did take a right turn, sorry. I was wondering how you hit a beach! A sand bar I can see, but the beach!
Haha, yeah, I always wondered that too when these things have happened around here (Manasquan). In a couple of cases, the engine died near the inlet and the boat drifted ashore. But not sure how one actually "runs into the beach" otherwise.
Then there's that one commercial Capt. in Barnegat Light who's run into the same sand bar off Andy's restaurant three times. How that guy still has a job is beyond me. I think I memorized where that bar was by the time I was 5 years old. LOL, I think avoiding that sand bar was the first lesson I ever learned in boating. If you're familiar with LBI/Barnegat Inlet you know the one.
