Stupid skipper

[Ross J]

I know I've got a couple of topics here now but I must share this one.......<br />Last summer I had my daughter aboard and was fishing the Motuhie channel for snapper. The day was great. Along came an asian gentleman complete with family aboard a big vessel at top speed directly towards us. No amount of calling or radio attempts would get his attention and he slices about 5 feet ahead of us catching my anchor rope up and we suddenly go from whoa to about 20 knots ahead as his vessle takes over. Our anchor warp obviously gets caught around his prop and he stalls. This gives us time to save ourselves as we'd both almost fallen overboard with the take off speed. The skipper calls out in broken english "What I do?" to which my reply of grabbing the rope from the prop works. He cut the rope from the prop loose and after loosing about 10 feet of it he ties it back togeather and casts us loose. Now I'm at anchor again and he's floating free. Skipper attempts to re-start his boat and as he floats away on the strong current I can hear his battery is getting very flat. I was later to hear his "Pan Pan" call for assistance 30 minutes later. All he had to do was to have untangled his prop before he took off and he'd have been fine! I was amazed that my wee 5m boat didn't break anything at all!<br />Ross.

 

[12Footer]

Re: Stupid skipper

NOW THAT IS SCAREY!!! It sounds like he came within feet of killing you two!!!<br />There is no excuse for his actions, and for his own safety,I hope he takes a safe boating course before getting his boat repaired. <br />

<br />I had a guy in a large vessel try to swamp my small boat. I was anchored 100meters out of the nearest channel,fishing. This obviously drunk captain came full-bore,within 50 feet,laughing and giving the "bird"...We held-on,but did gain about 200gallons of water over the gunwhale!<br />As the buttmunch was cutting along, we heard the most aweful clanking and bumping,that allmost drowned-out the sound of his twin Yanmars...He had run aground,and rammed the only rock in the entire river.<br />As he was calling for Seatow,I was caling CG.They both arived on scene at about the sam time, and the moron was taken into custody, charged with reckless endagermant (thaaks to me),and operating under influence.<br />His tub allmost sank,but te CG secured the 2foot hull tear,and placed a pump onboard.<br />Some people do this for fun??????<br />Oh well, they don't do it for long.

 

[wakatoa]

Re: Stupid skipper

I nearly got hit by a boat in Auckland once too but it was on the harbour bridge, heading to the north shore late at night I saw a large shower of sparks coming towards me, it was a boat on a trailer coming down my side without a car in front of it. Luckily I was the only car going up and managed to avoid it. For some reason it was coming down towbar first and if I hadn't seen the sparks it would have cleaned me up.<br />Reported it and never heard anything in the news so thankfully no one got hurt.<br />There was no car stopped anywhere at the top or further on so he must have discovered the boat was missing when he got home.

 

[DJ]

Re: Stupid skipper

I was out on a small lake a few years ago when a boat load of idiots showed up in a 70's vintage hot rod jet boat. They proceeded to generally harass everyone on the lake for the remainder of the day. They got theirs when the decided to retreive the boat on the trailer. After they had cranked the boat on, idiot number two told the driver of the 70's vintage muscle car to "hit it". As the car burned rubber all the way up the ramp the winch handle on the trailer was going around at about warp 8. When the winch strap hit the terminal end it snatched the boat up onto the ramp about 20 feet clear of the water. Everyone clapped and howled and DID NOT lend a hand.