Beached Boat.... How to get it off the sand bar???

(mcx2ryd) · (mcx2ryd) **Join Date: Sep 2005** 03-24-2007, 5:07 PM

Well guys I must say this is one of the most amazing things I have seen done with a boat. Or to extract a boat...with a helicopter! Its a new X-1

Check out this thread from tmcowners.com you can read the 20 pages or go to page 20 to check out the pics.

http://www.tmcowners.com/teamtalk/showthread.php?t=14984

(krbaugh) · (krbaugh) **Join Date: Mar 2002** 03-24-2007, 5:16 PM

Yep new MasterCraft Hyper drive

http://www.krem.com/sharedcontent/VideoPlayer/showVideo.php?vidId=130733

(timmy) · (timmy) **Join Date: Jul 2001** 03-24-2007, 6:00 PM

back in my show ski days we did a road show on a river once. I remember sitting on the dock getting ready to ski, and the other boat got stuck in the mud, with about 10 girls skiing behind it, and they all just kind of stopped, almost looked like they were still skiing. It was so funny!

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that was a few thousand im sure..3-4 k im guessing.

(mcx2ryd) · (mcx2ryd) **Join Date: Sep 2005** 03-24-2007, 7:06 PM

I beleive it was somewhere around $1500-$2000 it was a short lift and drop... hopefully he got them to do it when they were on another trip!

(grant_west) · (grant_west) **Join Date: Jun 2005** 03-24-2007, 7:13 PM

Umm stupid question. I didnt read threw all 20 pages. What happend to all the water. When I think of beaching your boat I think about running it a few feet up on shore. The pics look like the boat was in the middle of the lake and some one pull the plug on the lake?

Yes a amazing feet for that chopper. I had no Idea that kind of chopper could lift so much.

(phat_in_cincy) · (phat_in_cincy) **Join Date: May 2003** 03-24-2007, 7:29 PM

Grant,
They ended running some shallows due to winter pond and the next day they emptied the lake about 8". Since then it went down about an additional foot. Unfortunate events to say the least.

Here's the amazing youtube video of the entire lift.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uqNCyS8qto

(mhsb1029) · (mhsb1029) **Join Date: Jan 2004** 03-24-2007, 9:05 PM

When we beached the boat(I was not driving but I was the passenger on boat when the boat was beached) the boat was in about 8 inches of water. That night we had 6 guys out there(sherrif and some volenteer people) trying to move the boat and we could not get it to budge so we figured that we would round up everyone we could get ahold of and come back out the next day to rescue the boat. Well... that night the water dropped 6 inches, so the boat was only in 2 inches of water and there was no moving it with a group of 10-15 guys. The people who opperate the damn claimed that the water level would rise in the next few days but the water level only continued to go down.

The boat was sitting stranded for about a week and a half, the retreieval of the boat today was freaking amazing. I shot the video that you see from the youtube link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uqNCyS8qto

The guy who flew the chopper did some of the chopper stunts from one of the Mission Impossible movies, he was amazing. He pretty much dropped the boat right next to the dock. When it was all said and done the pilot asked Ryan(the boat owner) why he just did not have him put the boat on the trailor.

This first picture was taken the night the boat was beached:
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These pictures were taken today:
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(Message edited by mhsb1029 on March 24, 2007)

(mhsb1029) · (mhsb1029) **Join Date: Jan 2004** 03-24-2007, 9:07 PM

Pictures faild to post.

(Message edited by mhsb1029 on March 24, 2007)

(mhsb1029) · (mhsb1029) **Join Date: Jan 2004** 03-24-2007, 9:10 PM

This first picture was taken the evening of the boat being beached:
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These are more pictures from today:
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Check out tmcowners.com for the entire thread and some more pictures.

(rallyart) · (rallyart) **Join Date: Nov 2006** 03-24-2007, 9:19 PM

That looks like a Bell 214 and they can lift somewhere between 5K to 8k pounds in a slung load.
It's a nice machine that's been around a long time.
Thanks for sharing Mark.

(mhsb1029) · (mhsb1029) **Join Date: Jan 2004** 03-24-2007, 9:39 PM

No problem, the pilot said that that particular helicopter was rated at 4000#, he said that the boat registered at 3500# after he picked it up.

(wakeslife) · (wakeslife) **Join Date: Jul 2005** 03-24-2007, 10:38 PM

Thats pretty impressive. What damage was done to the boat in the end?

(longhornfan) · (longhornfan) **Join Date: Oct 2005** 03-25-2007, 8:15 AM

An MH-53/CH-53 can hook onto another 53 and lift it. It's the only helicopter that can do that in the US Military. It's the largest helo we've got and the second largest in the world.

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(longhornfan) · (longhornfan) **Join Date: Oct 2005** 03-25-2007, 8:17 AM

The rotor wash underneath one's about the same as a category 3 hurricane with winds in excess of 150mph though so you probably wouldn't have wanted that helicopter over you hooking up the boat.

(mhsb1029) · (mhsb1029) **Join Date: Jan 2004** 03-25-2007, 8:54 AM

As of right now it looks like the only damage was the cost to lift it out.

(ghostrider_2) · (ghostrider_2) **Join Date: Aug 2004** 03-25-2007, 10:09 AM

the ch53 is like riding in a caddy..

(joe1975) · (joe1975) **Join Date: Jan 2006** 03-25-2007, 10:31 AM

where is the prop?

(etakk7) · (etakk7) **Join Date: Apr 2006** 03-25-2007, 11:00 AM

they dug out underneath the boat and removed it to avoid further damage and have an anchor holding the boat if they tried to drag it

(rwb) · (rwb) **Join Date: Aug 2005** 03-25-2007, 12:33 PM

What an experience, and an expensive lesson. Fortunately, there appears to be minimal, if any, damage to the boat. The prop was in perfect condition, when we pulled if off last weekend. When we pulled the prop, the boat was still sitting in a few inches of water. The boat has been stranded since 03/14, and there was no guarantee when the water levels would be back up, to float it out. It was very vulnerable sitting out in the middle, so I sucked it up and hired the helicopter. I made a lot of new friends through all this, and was shown a lot of kindness . . . there are a lot of good people in the boating industry, and I'm proud to be a part of it. Great thanks to Mark, for making the documentary video.

(phatboypimp) · (phatboypimp) **Join Date: Apr 2005** 03-26-2007, 12:14 PM

G,

Maybe we should have tried this approach with you know who's X-9. LOL

(mhsb1029) · (mhsb1029) **Join Date: Jan 2004** 03-26-2007, 8:14 PM

Here is a web site that someone recently made regarding the beached boat. The web site is pretty cool.

http://www.jksquared.com/galleries/whitewhale/

(cmeriptahoe) · (cmeriptahoe) **Join Date: Jul 2006** 03-26-2007, 8:26 PM

check out the vid on page 30