How to dry out to at any anchorage (and harbour)

Ken Endean describes how standing your boat on its own two (or three) feet can open up a whole host of anchorages and harbours otherwise out of reach

Almost all vessels, in the days of working sail, had to take the ground when calling at destinations around Britain. Some port towns were on estuaries that dried out at low tide; many coastal harbours had walls that did not extend beyond low water, because underwater masonry was disproportionately expensive.

Until the Industrial Revolution brought steam dredgers...