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Originally Posted by upthesaukee
Unless we have small grandchildren with us, we stay away from the sandbars, or go early enough to wipe down the boat, maybe wax the sides, and then have a little libation. As the sandbar starts to get crowded, it is time to move on, and find a place to anchor where no one is close to cutting your anchor rope, or gets in the middle of all the boats and then looks for his anchor, or.... well all of the above.
Sandbars were a lot of fun when my kids were kids. Now that our kids have blessed us with grandchildren, sandbars...well not so much.
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We still go to Braun Bay despite the fact that we have teenage kids, but always arrive early and leave early on weekends. I find the mayhem as it gets crowded pretty entertaining and leave before it becomes irritating. Most people there are pretty cool and seem to know how to anchor. Shifty wind days, like last Saturday, are challenging for anyone and the occasional stern anchor reset is just something that has to be dealt with. I reset mine twice and helped neighbors reset theirs more than twice.