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Beautiful Gun WMF. In 2 years my wife and I are going to be looking for a condo in your area. We spend every Christmas and New Years at Sanibel and love it. Would love to stop in and see that beautiful boat in person. Pics never do these boats justice. Are you planning on coming to Pirates on Lanier this year, you won't be disappointed?

Love it in Cape Coral, we have a 2nd home there, are primary residence is in Delaware. The boat stay's at Sanibel Harbor Marina in the winter, and back in Delaware in the summer. I wont be doing the Pirates of Lanier run, sorry. But when you are you are down in Sanibel again let me know.

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Rookie question:

When you have external transom mounted water pickups, how do you avoid burying them in the sand / sucking up sand when you beach? I guess same question for bravo style / drive water intakes that may be even deeper....

(Shut down early and coast onto the sand bar? then push off and not fire back up until in a few feet of water???

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Frick, usually when u pull up to the beach, the back of the boat is 20ft off the beach, so your in deep water. If your in a shallow area, you hit it right on the button with the early shut down and a push off before restarting.

what about 18" dia props kicking up all the sh!t and your intakes pulling in sand?

Usually drives are in about 3-4 ft of water so it's not a problem. Trim drives way up and come in slow. Sea strainers should catch anything coming in. We beach ours around here quite a bit and never had a problem.

What about getting stuck