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Trip Log: Outrigger Canoe Sailing the California Channel Islands

Step 11Wet Sand for Stuck Truck

Wet Sand for Stuck Truck
While Kathleen does the skilled work on the hatches, I carry stuff down to the water.
On the return trip I carry a bucket of seawater to dump into our truck's tracks and around the tires.
That will make the sand solid enough to drive out on. We hope. If that doesn't work we'll let air out of the tires to enlarge their footprints. Down to 15psi or so. If that doesn't work it's time for all the tricks I learned in the snows of Minnesota.

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Tim Anderson is the author of the "Heirloom Technology" column in Make Magazine. He is co-founder of www.zcorp.com, manufacturers of "3D Printer" output devices. His detailed drawings of traditional ...
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