Storm passage - sailboat soft grounding video

Last night around sun down at 6:30pm the winds started to pickup so we doubled up on 'GG's' mooring lines 'just-in-case'... it's such a rude event to be awaken from a good sleep with someone shouting for help...

I was up early to catch coast-to-coast-am using the Internet to listen to KIRO FM radio in Seattle - John B. Wells does such a fine job as the radio commentator on C2CAM... it was raining now - the pilothouse windows all twinkled with lights prisming through the glass from the rain outside - most all of the rain was now going sideways with the wind - rain was blowing in the stern door hatch so I closed it - a refreshing evening 78 degrees air  temperature here in the tropics - sure glad we put the extra lines on I thought to myself... that dock will have to come apart before 'GG' goes anywhere... after several hours of listening to C2CAM it was time for a few more winks so I jumped back into bed. Blue Belle meowed welcome backs to me... and off we drifted into our own never never lands....

We slept in late today - it was Sunday - no need to be up early every day - there are privileges to being retired...and after all it was storming outside... lol

But you can only sleep so late... it was 0800 - 'BB' was pacing across the bed... she was hungry - so up we went... just in time to see a few people walking along our dock checking the boats and lines... the night watchman was whistling every time he past by last night - guess the locals don't believe in the superstition of "whistling up a storm".

Admiral Michelle noticed a small under 30 foot sailboat across the waterway  from us several hundred yards away - it was aground - listing a bit from the tide going out... several people were running lines from her... we continued to watch while breakfast was being prepared inside our cozy and safe salon-pilothouse.

Here is a snippet of video1 of the event: http://youtu.be/xrQuuv_BxrA   

Instead of pulling from the bow another idea came to mind - using the 'panga' with outboard, attach their tow line 6-10 feet up the mast for leverage and pull the boat over onto her beam-ends - the fin-keel will rotate up out of the mud - the boat will then be floating and can be easily moved into deeper water.

Any other ideas?

It worked - but I missed the actual release... (I was eating the Admiral's delicious pancakes when I noticed the boat floating free) by the time I could power on the video camera and zoom out they had another line rigged to the sailboat and was moving it to deeper water.  

Here is video2 snippet link: http://youtu.be/4pXsNYfZW50

Better luck for an action packed video next time....