Sand Recovery Training - Basic to Advanced
Date and time: 9:00am to 4:00pm, Saturday 9th May
Trip Standard: This is a Training day.
Description: Do you want to become a confident sand, beach and dune driver? Ever see a car bogged on a beach and worried that might one day be you, the tide slowly rising along with your panic levels, no phone reception, Elon's had a sook so Starlink doesn't work, your hope evaporating into the advancing brine?
On this course we are going to cover basic to advanced sand recovery, in real-life beach and dunes boggings using real-world scenarios based on my years of experience of recovering random people I find, and believe me they are creative. And we will actually get bogged, you don't learn anything by pretending a car is immoblised. We will also do a u-turn on an 'impossible' (according to Mr J. Random Boggee-McBogster in an LC200) beach.
Once we're finished you'll have handled more difficult sand recoveries than anything you'll find in a desert. We will cover self-recovery, kinetic, winch then show how Influencer Techniques 101 don't work #views #OMGmate. And a practical demonstration of the effect of tyre pressures and ESC
No prior experience required
Accommodation: campsites in Southend or surrounds
Weather: Yes. Going regardless
Equipment: minimum - sand flag, tyre pressure gauge, air compressor, kinetic recovery rope, 2x traction ramps, preferably 4, UHF radio handheld, not just in-car as we will be largely outside the cars and that means dress to impress the seagulls. I would like at least one participant to have a power winch and 20m+ of extension rope, and everyone needs to have a sense of humour.
Maps and Reference Material: Any map covering Southend/Canudra including the official Parks SA map.
Additional Equipment required: Clothing for windy, wet and cold conditions. Morning tea and lunch will be at the beach – byo thermos, etc.
Accommodation: campsites in Southend or surrounds
Fuel: Fuel is available in Beachport (20 Km away) or Millicent (25 Km away). There may also be fuel at the general Store in Southend
Distance: Southend is approximately 530 km from Melbourne.
Duration: 1 day. Saturday, full day. Campfire and stories that night, coffee run to Beachport next morning, then you can go find some random strangers to recover, then home.
Convoy limit: 10 vehicles
Meeting arrangements: We will meet at Southend General Store, 0800 https://maps.app.goo.gl/iriHETHNRaQJf2ji9 and depart at 9.00am. If you plan to get coffee beforehand then you will need to arrive a little earlier. We will aim to finish about 4.00pm at Southend.
Club Guest Registration policy: It is club policy in regard to insurance cover that if a member brings any non-members on the trip they must be registered and have paid the required fee as Temporary Members BEFORE the event.
i.e. non- members can no longer register on the day with the trip leader.
Temporary Membership information and ways to register can be found at:
Temporary (Guest) Membership
Also if a non-member wishes to bring their own vehicle, the member inviting the non-member must contact the trip leader for approval to bring the vehicle. Such approval will take into account skills of the driver, suitability of the vehicle and whether or not a place within the convoy limit is available for a non-member's vehicle.
Trip Leaders: Robert Pepper / robert@peppernet.org / 0408 226354
