Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:36:27 -0700
Reply-To: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: [vanagon] Re: regular vanagon on the beach?
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I missed Friday..so
Stuck in sand?
We once watched a brand new 30' Southwind motor home 'go under' on
Jauncalito (sp?) beach in Baja... Had a front row seat...about 300 meters
back up the beach behind the soft sand. This Gringo came wheeling down the
hard sand at low tide..looking all cool with his Corona in hand and his
shiny new Mo-ho. He got out and fiddled around a little till the tide
started rising again then he decided to turn around and get out of
there...Uhh, didn't work. Couple of 4x4 motor heads tried towing him out
but as soon as the wave action got to his tires each ebb and flow dropped
the mo ho a couple more inches into the sand. It sank past the hubs in about
5 minutes!
They tried to winch it out, hooked up in tandem, but just pulled the
trucks closer to the waters edge...
Poor guy just ended up watching the water come up to the bottom of the
windshield, that tide. Next low tide, the sand was over the floor
level..Came back past that beach in a couple of weeks...only some of the
frame was there..same spot...Lottsa nice new siding on some of the local's
houses...
Moral? Never stop below the high tide mark in your vehicle...You may not
get going again and getting stuck at low tide on a beach is not smart.
Don Hanson
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Bob Stevens <mtbiker62@gmail.com> wrote:
> The specific location is now called "Maggie's Corner" ... don't turn into
> there if'n ya don't got a Syncro.
>
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Maggie Dew <wildebus@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > If you have some spare time, I'll be glad to tell you about getting
> > stuck alone in soft sand at the end of a remote road on top of a mesa
> > in southeast Utah for five hours. I tried everything. The jack would
> > slip sideways into the deep sand. There was nothing solid anywhere.
> > Cell phone coverage was marginal but I eventually got help using first
> > cell phone and then walkie-talkie. Oh yeah, baby, she thought she was
> > a Syncro before that happened. Took two Syncros and another two hours
> > to jerk her out of the sand. Don't go there.
> >
> > Maggie
> >
> > .
> >
> > __,_._,___
> >
>
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