water safety

It also shows you why you should be cautious about taking a boat designed for inshore/protected waters out into open water.

Jay C
 
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Damn right

I was 16 miles out in the Gulf in my 20' CC one day when we pulled up to a reef to fish in 100' of water.
And, oh-my-God, there sits an 18' fiberglass BASSBOAT sitting there with two guys fishing!
They left and headed north right before we did.
We get around 5 miles offshore and a line of afternoon thunderstorms has turned the Gulf into 4' chops going 4 different directions.
I didnt hear of them sinking, so I guess they made it.
 
If that had been a hunter on a paddle board he wouldn't have needed rescuing. Just goes to show that instead of thinking that the way someone does something is wrong, we should be looking at the way we do things.

Dani
 
i got the pic's from a great lake shipping site...the good Samaritan
is (was) the Buckeye(a self unloading bulk cargo laker)...a dead giveaway
is (was) the fore& aft cabin arrangement with the pilothouse up front
to maximize visibility when docking in small crowded harbors...it has been
converted to an articulated self unloading barge...
the fishing boat is not too dissimilar to my hunt/fish rig & is strikingly
similar to my dad's war eagle( though his is a tiller model with a much smaller
motor )...i suspect that many of the people on this site have a comparable
rig too...i keep copies of these photo's to remind me of what can go wrong...
PFD's are essential,keep your radio in good shape,keep extra flares(see
the orange Olin container at the back of the boat??) and most importantly,
don't be afraid to fore-go the big water if it doesn't look good...head for a
quiet little backwater ,and have some fun...
...the positive floatation is a really valid point & I'm sure that it really
saved their bacon...I've looked for news articles in the major papers & my
searches have come up empty so I'm guessing that there was no loss of life...
when i go out for day,my objective is to have a memorable experience,if i get some
shooting ,all the better...I'm pretty sure that ,wile this was undoubtedly a
memorable experience, it's not exactly the kind of memory that these fellas
had in mind...
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" Hey,lets be careful out there"
 
If that had been a hunter on a paddle board he wouldn't have needed rescuing. Just goes to show that instead of thinking that the way someone does something is wrong, we should be looking at the way we do things.

Dani
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Yea; 16 miles out..... he'd just have needed burying :-0
(that is, if they found the body...but he would've bagged his trophy eider and done so in a most "rad" way)
 
If that had been a hunter on a paddle board he wouldn't have needed rescuing. Just goes to show that instead of thinking that the way someone does something is wrong, we should be looking at the way we do things.

Dani
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Yea; 16 miles out..... he'd just have needed burying :-0
(that is, if they found the body...but he would've bagged his trophy eider and done so in a most "rad" way)
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Would have been a recovery operation and not a rescue.
 

maybe were missing the obvious...616 ft long,
70 ft wide,37 foot draft,23000 ton payload,full accomidations...
from the view of the picture,you would be shooting down on
all but the highest flying birds...able to handle most of all
but the choppiest conditions...the Buckeye would make an
excellent shooting platform/blind...also would lend a new meaning
to "a boatload of decoys"...hmmmm,if i could get those powerball
numbers right,I see the makings of an outstanding open water
rig.
 
maybe were missing the obvious...616 ft long,
70 ft wide,37 foot draft,23000 ton payload,full accomidations...
from the view of the picture,you would be shooting down on
all but the highest flying birds...able to handle most of all
but the choppiest conditions...the Buckeye would make an
excellent shooting platform/blind...also would lend a new meaning
to "a boatload of decoys"...hmmmm,if i could get those powerball
numbers right,I see the makings of an outstanding open water
rig.
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L,

The context of some of these replies is related to an earlier post about some guy who decided to use a paddle board in Alaska to take a scoter. Some of the comments were "why" and others were "why not".

I could take my son's little kick board that we use in the pool during the summer out on lake erie this fall, but that doesn't mean I should... And I'm really good on it too.
 
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