trendsetter240
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Re: Lost and found overboard...are you a giver or a receiver?
How about losing a 30 foot commercial fishing boat?..lol
My "friend" borrowed my 12ft aluminium boat one day without asking and hit a log losing our new 8hp johnson over the back in about 30ft of water. He gave me a description of where they lost it and I mentioned it to the owner of the crab boat I was working on at the time. He seemed to think he could retrieve the motor with a string of grappling hooks he had and wanted to give it a shot.
Well, we went out his 30ft boat and proceeded to start dragging the area where my friend lost the outboard. Turns out the log that he hit was wedged into the sand on one end and just breaking the surface on the other when he hit it. When we were out there a few hours later the tide had come in and the log was now about 2 feet underwater and not visible.
To make a long story short, the 30 footer struck the log and gouged a 2 foot slash in the hull. We started taking on water and made a mad dash for the dry dock. The boat was literally sinking deeper as we drove. The pumps were all running but could not keep up with the leak.
We made it to the dry dock and the boat was safe for the moment. However the dry dock was a fixed depth and as the tide continued in the boat was swamped despite our efforts to pump it out.
Sometimes things lost overboard are best left overboard
How about losing a 30 foot commercial fishing boat?..lol
My "friend" borrowed my 12ft aluminium boat one day without asking and hit a log losing our new 8hp johnson over the back in about 30ft of water. He gave me a description of where they lost it and I mentioned it to the owner of the crab boat I was working on at the time. He seemed to think he could retrieve the motor with a string of grappling hooks he had and wanted to give it a shot.
Well, we went out his 30ft boat and proceeded to start dragging the area where my friend lost the outboard. Turns out the log that he hit was wedged into the sand on one end and just breaking the surface on the other when he hit it. When we were out there a few hours later the tide had come in and the log was now about 2 feet underwater and not visible.
To make a long story short, the 30 footer struck the log and gouged a 2 foot slash in the hull. We started taking on water and made a mad dash for the dry dock. The boat was literally sinking deeper as we drove. The pumps were all running but could not keep up with the leak.
We made it to the dry dock and the boat was safe for the moment. However the dry dock was a fixed depth and as the tide continued in the boat was swamped despite our efforts to pump it out.
Sometimes things lost overboard are best left overboard