The boat is at Vectorworks awaiting the insurance man and a new starboard hull. I have a 7 day trip to Bombay tomorrow so I won't be using it anyway.
On the tie down thing, it was very soft sand so you would have to dig quite a way down to get solid mass, a simple dog screw wouldn't grab enough I think. What I have come up with, after a long drive home, is two 5 gallon bucketts and a small shovel, I can use them to wash the boat on arrival, then burry one on each side of the boat and tie the trap handles to the bucket handles to keep the boat in place. It will be a pain to un-dig them after the regatta but not as much pain as a flipped boat.
The worst part of course is listening to my wife say, "I told you to buy a jet ski..."
That is another good idea.
part of the kit I take with me are 2 large tyres for this reason;
Dig a big hole in the sand, bury them and then tie the boat to them.
