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How do you get there? If you have a centerboard, raise it. This will decrease draft, possibly enough to free boat. Can you sail off? If you were sailing down wind when you ran aground, harden up and try to go to windward. If you were sailing close hauled, tack immediately and move crew weight to leeward. If sailing off on a reach or downwind would put you into deeper water, ease sails and fall off toward deeper water. Move crew weight around to heel boat in direction which is most likely to help it to slide off - this alone may reduce boat's draft enough to free her up. If this doesn't work, drop sails, as wind on sails will continue to push you harder onto shallow water. Furl them out of way. On deck they will become a slippery liability.

Kedging off -- Once you've set an anchor in deeper water, you may be able to winch it in and pull boat off that way. Again, moving crew weight around may help immeasurably. It may help to rock boat by shifting crew weight back and forth as you winch in on anchor.

Use a halyard -- If you know that heeling boat in one direction will help, hand a halyard to someone in a dingy who can then carefully motor off boat's beam and pull it over farther. If you don't have a dingy, a crew member can grab a halyard and swing out over beam of boat to try to increase heel.

Get off and push - This technique is obviously only safe and effective in very shallow water, and thus will only work with a very shallow draft boat, such as a day sailor or a multihull. Before getting in water, be sure to put shoes on. Make sure that boat won't sail off without you, and that you have a way to get back onto boat.

Accept tow? As a last resort, if all other options have failed. This may require a VHF call to a towing company. Be careful -- a big powerful powerboat may be able to pull with more force than boat's equipment can handle--the boat's hull can be damaged. The boat must have a cleat strong enough to take strain of a tow, which may be considerable. If there is no cleat strong enough, consider tying off to base of mast. If mast is stepped through deck it will take strain, if it's stepped on deck it may not. The line used as tow line also must be strong enough to take strain of towing -- if it breaks under strain of pull of a tow boat, it will become a lethal weapon.

When you may not want to refloat boat -- if you have a hole in bottom you may be better off right where you are, at least until you've been able to carry out enough of an emergency repair to keep boat from sinking.