walt-oxie1
Petty Officer 2nd Class
- Joined
- Aug 13, 2009
- Messages
- 141
Not long ago, a friend of mine and I were chasing mullet. We were in an area that we know pretty well. There is a steel pipe that usually stuck out of the water at about 45 degrees. It was a marsh tide and the pipe was just under the surface of the water. In that same area there was a large school of mullet, I shined the spotlight and they showered everywhere. My friend dropped the anchor on the net and I opened the throttle on the boat. I was looking with the spotlight and yelled out, where the h*** is that pipe. About that time, I found it and we stopped rather abruptly. When I hit it, my friend came flying to the front of the boat and slammed me against the console on the bow. The pipe was now standing straight up and the tide was starting to blow out. The boat didn't take on very much water because the pipe was holding it up, for now. I made a few calls to other people fishing in the area to come help. We transfered everything to other boats and hooked lines to my boat, 1 in the front and 2 on the sides, and proceeded to remove the boat from the pipe, ripping out a section of the hull. The boat began to sink and it was towed back to the ramp mostly submerged. Luckily, I was able to get everything stripped, except for the motor from the boat before it submerged. The motor was no big loss since I planned on replacing it soon anyways. It had over 10,000 hours on it and not even 2 years old yet. I should have it back on the water again by spring.
