Student Driver
New Member
I'm going beach camping in a couple of weeks and thinking about bringing the laser. While surfing the laser ought to be tons of fun, a couple of things give me an unappetizing pause:
1. Rigging on the beach and then carrying or dragging the rigged boat out through the surf
2. Potentially running aground at planing/surfing speeds
3. …particularly when trying to come back in to land in the surf
Does anybody have any experience beach launching & landing their laser and could offer some advice on the feasibility and methods? There will be no sheltering structures around, just miles and miles of open beach and water. The good news at least is that there are no rocks and no other known obstructions, just loads of Texas Gulf Coast sand. I will have other people with me who can help, but nobody more knowledgable than me.
I will have the boat's trailer, though the slope of the beach will be too shallow to use a car to back it down like a ramp. But if the surf is relatively calm I may be able to use the trailer to help transition the boat from floating depth to dry land.
1. Rigging on the beach and then carrying or dragging the rigged boat out through the surf
2. Potentially running aground at planing/surfing speeds
3. …particularly when trying to come back in to land in the surf
Does anybody have any experience beach launching & landing their laser and could offer some advice on the feasibility and methods? There will be no sheltering structures around, just miles and miles of open beach and water. The good news at least is that there are no rocks and no other known obstructions, just loads of Texas Gulf Coast sand. I will have other people with me who can help, but nobody more knowledgable than me.
I will have the boat's trailer, though the slope of the beach will be too shallow to use a car to back it down like a ramp. But if the surf is relatively calm I may be able to use the trailer to help transition the boat from floating depth to dry land.