So I'm driving along at about 20 mph and all of a sudden I spot a stick poking out of the water about 20 feet from the boat. I immediately drop the boat into neutral and in that instant the boat hits a giant sand bar. Well, 45 minutes, seven people, a couple of shovels, we finally get the boat off of the sand bar. Fortunately, no one was hurt and I managed to avoid ripping all of my running gear out of the bottom of the boat. In fact the only damage I could see was a small ding in the first skagg (sp). Whew, worst and probably best day ever.