[Alberg30] Going Aground

[Scott Wallace]

Hi Joe,

Two years ago I was sailing my Alberg designed 23' keelboat, a Pearson
Electra, when I had forgotten my charts of Lake Erie and sailed into
what I thought was a little bay but I didn't know it showed 2' depth!  I
hit a sandbar while under sail and power and bounced up and down with
the waves, hitting bottom rather vigorously, shaking my rig...finally,
about forty minutes later, we managed to put together a motley crew to
turn Spindrift around facing the open lake, then managed to get her off
the bar.  In the Fall, when we hauled her, we had a few cosmetic scrapes
on the bottom of the fiberglass 'neath the keel.

The old wooden rudder held up just fine!

Good Luck!

Scott Wallace

FITZONELOVE at aol.com wrote:

> After spending a beautiful night anchored off Sandy Hook, NJ, we ran
> aground
> on a sandbar that had shifted since the printing of our chart.  We
> were
> aground about a half hour (luckily on a rising tide), but during the
> grounding, we bumped the bottom a few times, enough to shake the rig a
> bit.
> Since this is our first season with "One Love," I hope I didn't damage
> the
> hull or rudder.  Any reassurance would be appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Joe Fitzpatrick  "One Love" #286

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