Saw this earlier this morning.
Guess he dragged or lost an engine.
He's waiting for high tide to get off but still might be hard as it's only 1.39m. I assume the CG will help pull him.

I just hope his rudders are ok, it looked like they were dug in pretty deep and with the sea coming in from the side like that.

The swell there is pretty high. They are surfing in the middle of the bay at the moment near low tide. The swell has created an unusually high sandbank.

How does this happen? Anchored poorly off a surf beach and went to bed maybe?

stray said..
How does this happen? Anchored poorly off a surf beach and went to bed maybe?

The boat is still listed on Boatsonline but as "sold" so it was probably purchased fairly recently.

Perhaps the owners were inexperienced sailors or at least not experienced with this particular boat.

A cat would have to lose both motors to be blown or washed up on there so yes perhaps badly anchored in an unfamiliar vessel and asleep with no anchor alarm.

Quite similar to a nice Grainger 1250 that I was on last Sunday.

Not sure of the accuracy but my wife was told the engines failed then the anchor, although that could mean holding in waves.
Hope they got off ok, nice Grainger.