Been stuck in that spot at nighttime. Waited about 1.5 hours and the boat floated. We got out and pushed the boat…then thought about Stingrays and how it would not be fun to step on 1. We got back in the boat and waited another 20 minutes and then made it off.
Key West 1720 115 HP Johnson Saltwater.
funniest one I ever saw was a group of “rich kids” in a huge boat their daddy probably bought them riding my ass out of the ICW into the harbor playing their music loud and decided to floor it as soon as we exited the no wake zone and go past me…only they cut it hard to the right and didnt go around the red marker at lower tide and were sputtering mud within about 20 seconds!!! then of course they stopped to “pee off the boat” and proceed to be hung up…laughed my tail off at them.
but ive definitely been there before in the same spots…
Go slow, follow the crab pots. Tight lines?
Been there before…very first time taking a boat in charleston waters , same spot … Sure will happen again…
There is a reason that every GPS warns you not to rely on it as “sole navigation aid”
I seem to best remember the sand bars & mud flats I’ve found the hard way.
This website has gotten weak…
When did everyone become so helpful?? I miss the good ole days!
Annoy a Liberal, Work Hard and Be Happy!
Shut up, I hope you get grounded real soon.
“Apathy is the Glove into Which Evil Slips It’s Hand”.
How’s that?
“Apathy is the Glove into Which Evil Slips It’s Hand”.
before moving to the area I did most of my boating in the northeast either on my friends parents sail boat which only ever went in a deep water harbor and open ocean, never anywhere near shallows, or on lakes. So when I moved here and went to Capers I followed everybody else’s lead and put my boat bow up on the sand, stuck the anchor in and proceeded to take my family for a walk around the island without a thought or care in the world that it was an outgoing tide… Luckily it was the tail end of tide so it was not an extremely long wait for water, just a few hours. So in my brilliance when we left I took the channel all the way on the left heading towards the intra coastal, and promptly ran up on a mud bank 1’ under water at a pretty good speed getting stuck for the second time in the same day. another 45 minutes of waiting for water I was able to get back to the dock feeling like the biggest idiot in Charleston. I’m pretty sure if anybody here tells you they have never been stuck they are full of it, have not been boating very long, or were lucky enough to have a guided tour before solo’ing it.
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I'm pretty sure if anybody here tells you they have never been stuck they are full of it, have not been boating very long,
You sure got that right, I’ve been stuck on almost every sandbar, mud bar, oyster bar (and dockside bar) from the Chesapeake to South America. Sailboats, power boats, you name it, even got stuck in the pluff mud for 4 hours on a windsurfer one time 
Bad part is my wife was stuck with me [:0]
Back in the late 70s we took our little sailboat from Savannah to the outer banks, NC. No GPS, no LORAN, just a flasher depth finder and a compass and chart. We were entering some sound in upper SC early one morning on a full moon spring high tide and strong NE wind, all you could see was water. Couldn’t begin to tell where the channel was. Wife said go left. I said no, go right. I was wrong [:I] We ran aground on an oyster bar at the very top of a very high tide. Not a good thing. 15 minutes later we were high and dry. Keel and rudder buried in the mud. Me, the wife and the dog. Got pictures to prove it, I ain’t proud
Got the boat stabilized, turned around and pointing back to deep water with some anchors and jib sheet winches.
That long haired hippie looking guy hauling an anchor is me…
Wife and dog settled in for a long wait. I started digging a ditch from the bow of the boat to deep water, using a paddle and a hammer. I knew we had just passed the highest tide of the month, the evening tide would be much lower, but the next morning tide would be slightly better. Needed to get out on that morning tide or we would be eating oysters for a month.
Dang Larry, I bet the bottom of that boat looked real purty!!
'06 Mckee Craft
184 Marathon
DF140 Suzuki
Great story, Larry.
13ft Whaler with 25hp Johnson
If you’re lucky enough to be fishing, you’re lucky enough.
Nice story Larry. I bet that sucked at the time, but all these years later you have a great story to tell! Isn’t it amazing what a few inches of water can do…
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Nice story Larry. I bet that sucked at the time, but all these years later you have a great story to tell!
One of many I’ve got at least a couple dozen more as good or better, that’s just one I had handy pictures of:smiley: 30 years later I still get stuck sometimes. Ain’t no big deal, nothing but a thing, the water comes back, eventually. And yall know what they say about eating oysters:smiley:
Just read a crazy news story today about the Beaufort fire dept. “rescuing” a kayak stuck in the mud. Are you kidding me, a kayak stuck in the mud needs rescuing? Some people might should stay out of boats and play golf or something. Here it is.
http://www.wtoc.com/story/25147353/mother-daughter-rescued-after-kayak-gets-stuck-in-mud
BEAUFORT, SC (WTOC) -
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Beaufort Fire Fighters rescued a mother and daughter after their kayak got stuck in the mud in the Beaufort River.A mother and daughter from Philadelphia went out kayaking Wednesday afternoon. They got about a mile and a half outside of the marina, up into the marsh when the tide went out from under them.
The pair was stuck in the mud for about two hours, but a resident saw them and called for help.
Beaufort Fire Fighters used backboards as platforms for the pair to walk on.
No injuries were reported in the incident.
</font id=“quote”></blockquote id=“quote”>To me that doesn’t constitute any sort of emergency or rescue situation, much less headline news. Throw out an anchor, throw out a fishing line and a crab line, build a drink, eat some oysters…, beats being stuck in a traffic jam any day.
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CL has become the Sage of CF.
I’ve never been stuck. not bulls bay, wando, crab bank, the castle. none of em.
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That’s where it all went wrong.
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If you’re lucky enough to be fishing, you’re lucky enough.
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I've never been stuck. not bulls bay, wando, crab bank, the castle. none of em.
Come on Pea, you can’t get stuck sitting in a recliner eating cheetos.
“Apathy is the Glove into Which Evil Slips It’s Hand”.
ya’ll think crackerlarry drinks much brown liquor?
DF: noted, scene, & filed. I’m gonna leave a little present in your stored-near-me boat just for that. you can thank me later.
Stuck in the marsh, ie, way up in the grass, eaten alive by sand gnats and your from Philadelphia… 
Probably was an emergency, might make the sand gnats sick.
'06 Mckee Craft
184 Marathon
DF140 Suzuki