Lifeguards attempt to remove Beached Boat in Playa del Rey

If the vessel was grounded during low tide, haul the boat anchor out beyond the surf line in it's dingy and drop it. Using the boat windlass, set the anchor and keep its anchor rode taught and the bow facing the surf. Wait for high tide and float away or kedge out into deeper water. Even if the boat were grounded during high tide, it was still moving about and not stuck. Setting a kedge anchor would have stopped it from rolling about on the beach and sustaining damage. It also would have been the "seaman" like thing to try..

Lots of fancy equipment and manpower but appears not much practical experience of removing a grounded vessel .

That was a total waste of time. Think you’re going to move a 25 ton vessel with 3/8” poly? Good luck.

Better call Saul. No experience here. Good effort wasted. The incoming waves were actually lifting the boat and no advantage of this taken.

Great try guys! Better to get it off the beach right away if possible. I believe that’s a Formosa 51 which have a full keel and weigh over 50,000lbs. It’s mizzen mast is missing. It had likely dug a nice hole in the sand rocking back and forth like that and will need more heavy equipment, probably an excavator to dig a trough, before towing it back to sea. They’re big and heavy but not always known for their quality of build so go delicately to avoid pulling it apart, that is if the waves don’t do it on their own. Stay safe and I hope your beach and waters remain clean and undamaged.

Aan de mast,minimaal bij de zaling vastmaken om te trekken. Dan een sleepboot erbij ipv een speelgoedboot

That Craft is STILL there. Just some orange cones around it. I think its going to become a tourist attraction for those Gilligan Island fans. 😮

Damn watch the whole thing and they don’t even move it

Those 80s formosas were tough!

That was never going to work. That's a very heavy displacement Formosa design...they may as well have requested volunteers to pee into the ocean in the hope of raising the water level. A higher tide or a dug channel are the only options.

Lotta work for a boat that was in the custody of the authorities,( after they condemned the boat, and had the owners abandon it, due to possible child endangerment due to inexperience) This boat was in custody. How did it get loose, drift out of Marina del rey, and had two lifegaurd boats, watching it, as it beached itself? The lifegaurds could have easily thrown a line to it, and pulled it off, BEFORE it beached. The authorities gave the owners three days to effect repairs/get a captain to sail it. Only three days! This was staged to throw shade on liveaboard boats, outside the harbor.

...15 minutes i'm never gonna get back...:face-purple-crying:

Only a big tross, a strong winch and a big anchor about 100m away maybe could help in this situation.

poor effort by what looks like amateurs.

Era só pegar um cabo bem grande e uma Âncora bem pesada levar bem lá no fundo e jogar a Âncora o barco não ficaria de lado, e esperar a Maré encher fica a Dica

It's not their job classification.

should of put up biggest sails sheeted in and had big anchors winching in so not to loose ground gained by tow boats

They make it worst

That was never going to work.

Tem que colocar um peso na ponta do mastro para adernar. Ajuda muito.