Inboard beach cruising

[svtosca]

Still looking at SCs, weighing options, priorities. Does inboard arrangement mean forget about beach cruising. I'm hoping to nose up to some remote islands to discharge valuable cargo. Or are prop/rudder too exposed and vulnerable for that sort of thing?

TX,
Tosca

[Fr. Frank]

You can have a false keelson made out of solid 1 1/2" round Stainless steel. Begin at a constant chord in front of the propellor shaft and parallel to it coming back. It needs to be posted to the hull in front of the rudder post and behind the propellor, though. It's similar to the Fish Nautique concept.

[ocuyler]

I'm hoping to nose up to some remote islands to discharge valuable cargo.

I hope you're talking about wife and kids...

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If it was my boat there would be NO beach it and HOPING everything will be ok.
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[Miles Offshore]

I run mine fairly rugularly in water down to about 3'-(1.5 to 2 according to f/f-(ducer is a foot and a half down below the waterline(approx) mine has a stainless keel guard like was mentioned above-

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[Scott]

Hey Craig ... That bar doesn't disturb the water flow over the wheel ?? Apparently not ...or not enough to matter

Tosca…besides having the rudder real vulnerable( although in Miles photo it is shorter than the wheel) out there, I would also be concerned about kicking her in to reverse and throwing all that crap up into the raw water intake !!

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Nothing like a prop pocket and a SS keel guard I really love that design.
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[Capt Chuck]

tosca

I don't know what remote islands nor your cargo contents, but here in Fla and the Bahamas, the shallow water extends out from the dry land several feet. This situation would be undesirable for an inboard configuration. An outboard can be pushed out from the bar coupled with engine tilting helps getting back into deeper water easy [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Most inboards I see doing the island hoping deal, anchor out in 3' or so water and wade to shore. As mentioned before, I would not want to see your rudder mud stuck and have it sucked into your cooling system [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

Here is a picture of my boat nosed up to an island. I still climb off the transom with a ladder and wade to shore.

Photo complements of www.markpix.com [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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Amen Capt Chuck
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[Miles Offshore]

Fellowship, thanx!! Scott- comparing numbers with you guys i do lose a few knots with the guard. the fromt of it is blount too. When I haul it here shortly I am going to try to fair it down some- right now there has got to be a lot of drag from it. I was going to remove it at one time, but I thought better- it has pushed some wood basically out of the way on at least one occasion and i think it would help push line or other stuff away as well. (no guarantees though,lol)- BTW- Im going to get some more pitch taken out of the wheel too. (got too much moolah in the 4 blade to just give up on it!!!) see yall- craig [img]/images/graemlins/ooo.gif[/img]