Missed

[Scuba1]

I was out fishing Yesterday when I got a TXT from my better half. Apparently this turnip go fast boater just cut across the ICW at full open throttle, hit the oyster bank and sort of jumped it and then ended up in the sea food with a rather abrupt stop. No one got hurt other then the pride of the "skipper" and a few dozen oysters. The dragged his sorry butt of at 0100 at high tide. 



ATB

Michael

[vtsteam]

Anybody can buy a boat. Piloting takes a brain.

When I was going down the IC we used to call those guys Rodneys on the radio, after Rodney Dangerfield. as in, "Cap'n we've got a Rodney a mile back heading up your way......"

[Stilldrillin]

Ooops! 

David D

[Scuba1]

The scary thing is, that this is supposed to be a pro ..... he had 5 or 6 passengers on board and that is not a shifting sand bar but on old established oyster bank and if he had been 50 or so feet to port, he would have piled into marker 13 .... the one that has the NO WAKE sign on it. I bet his passengers did not expect for their trip to come to such a sudden halt less then a minute away from the dock at that speed.

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Michael