Simple Beach Recovery tool idea

[Riptide]

I've often wondered why I don't see more boat anchors used on the beach. Some Danforth-type anchors will break down into a smaller package by taking the flukes off...

Many anchors also have a "trip line" hole at the back of the anchor that is used for wrenching / freeing an anchor off the bottom, since swimming down with a shovel in 25 feet of water usually isn't an option. It basically pulls the anchor out upwards and backwards, using the boat's engine as one passes over the anchor. Can a Pull-Pal be extracted this way?

I've spent many an autumn chasing stripers on the beaches of Rhode Island, and only gotten stuck once or twice. Never had a winch, or a Hi-Lift either. Early on, I once got my Jeep stuck to the frame rails, whereupon my father promptly got out, grabbed his surf stick, and said come get him when the truck was free. That little exercise in digging taught me to cool my jets on the throttle...

 

[UK4X4]

By the time you dig a hole, hammer in a stake, layout the winch line, burry a tire.

sand mats are pretty easy to deploy and probably faster than the other methods.

in flat sand as you start to slow down, gun it, no effect, stop, reverse slowly about a foot.

This creates a hole where the sand mat can be put in or 4 if you have them. this saves on digging out infront of the tire !

drive out and stop when you reach a hard part.

Kinetic straps are the only way to pull someone out

The time to bury a tire deep enough to pull out a heavily ladden vehicle I think would be surprisingly long..

Jacking individual tires and back filling with sand-sea weed drift wood etc is another method, remembering to extend your little pile of traction material at least three feet in front of each tire.

Arround here we have quite a bit of sand !