Hope this guy never gets a bigger boat!

Oh contrair. Go to the south coast of Nova Scotia where they have about an 18' tide swing. In the coves you'll find all sorts of vessels in the mud.

Nova Scotian's are crazy just watch Trailer Park Boy's!!!!

Our tide would leave nearly a mile of mud flats when out. Boats would be gently lowered when the water left. So could see it being fairly harmless to do this with all boats........... We (parents) just never attempted this with our Mastercraft V-drive.

There's a few mile long bay just up the coast from Anchorage, Ak. where I was told that the tide comes in fast enough and with a big enough wave to surf. I'd be very hesitant about leaving a boat there. So there are bays and then there are bays where the tide is a whole 'nuther story.

Off the Oregon coast mouth of Columbia River the coast guard has the rough water training in that area for a reason.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWFX6Cg45As

Some places are interesting during tide changes, others its just weird standing on mud or sand bar that a few hours before you'd be in 20 ft of water over your head.

More I think about this the more I'm in favor of an operator license that tests the basic knowledge that boaters have about waters and basic navigation, etcetera. When Canada first started this I was against it, but know for it!

Tidal Changes

It's common in harbors on the west coast of Devon in England for boats to sit on the bottom when the tide goes out. This photo is from a visit a few years ago.

Hi.
Looks normal to me

Just a quick reminder of a simple request.

Must be global. Id post pictures if I had a working scanner. But my parents house out front looks like the same same mud when the tide goes out.

Hi,

There are lots of places the world over where the tide goes out and leaves the mudflats or sand exposed.

There is a place in Auckland, NZ called Westhaven, they have or used to have some Grids where you could tie up over them at high tide and when the tide went out your boat would be high and dry - they were good for an inspection or a quick repair that couldn't be done in water.

I am sure this type of thing exists in many places with reasonable tides, here is an example in Hoonah, Alaska. http://onaboatafloat.blogspot.com/2010/07/on-grid.html

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In line with the thread title this guy could do with a few lessons too.

http://vimeo.com/22630270

Had to watch 3 times to get all the audio and the captions (all worth reading and hearing). And the girls were certainly worth the 3rd look. I especially like the laudry hanging like the Bowery in the 1920's. Guess the message to take away is "sailboats have right of way" right?. How dare those boats anchoring where he wanted to go.
I'm drawn back to a comment on the 64' Sunseeker thread "Dirving a boat isn't hard".

We've all seen it first hand. We recently saw it down in the keys, but not nearly that bad.

When I was in England (Plymouth area) I noticed a number of harbors, Plymouth being one of them with locks to account for the tidal differences. As you noted, at other harbors the boats will be resting on the bottom at low tide.

You didn't have to go that far. You have one down at Great Bridge, although with a bit less tide swing.

Thanks for the tip. I was actually in the UK on business. The company I was working for had a contract with Babcock Marine in Devonport. This was in 2009 and at the time both Destriero and Alamshar were tied up there. Destriero was just be kept there while Alamshar was being worked on by Babcock Marine technicians. This may have been around the time they were re-fitting the power train, but I'm not sure how far along this went due to some legal issues.