Its Partly Jersey's Fault... A rant

[Deep C]

Right now you could read a paper by the light... My butt is glowing cherry red after my day...
Last night was a great one in Morehead. Box, Raven, Gottafly, Capt. Tim, Ponytail, Surfergirl, Joeksr, the artwork of Mr. Ray made for really one of the best nights I have had in a long time.Thank all of you!!!
She was puffin pretty good this morn so I decided that I'd ditch run to Cape fear then head south from there... First forty or fifty miles was pretty good. Then I hit the traffic jam. THis is where Jersey and her kinds fault. Insurance companies hate Florida...They seem to think its the only place that gets hurricanes and won't let their covered boats head south til now unless the poor insurees want to pony up double or tripple premium. So by the zillions they wait to go in mass.
With the bad weather recently it held them up til now and I had a solid wall four wide of every rag boat and trawler in this hemisphere infront of me for the next hundred miles!!!Hundreds of em looked like a forest of telephone poles
I tried to be polite where I could but the skunks that were doing 15 knots got a good rockin when I went to pass them... ... Its ok for them to run at maximum wake speed then they get pissed because I have to pass to keep from falling off plane and burning tripple fuel???? Heard my name on the radio a few time and saw a few birds flipped... Hey trawalers... Tough Shit!
I got to southport too late to make any good ground outside so I stuck to the ditch and planned on Myrtle...
I have never seen anything like I saw after that... Litterally hundreds if not close to a thousand boats stretched from there to the South Carolina border all setting and pulling gill nets!!! Across the ditch along side every friggin place!!! No way anything could survive that. I saw lizzard fish, pin fish, baby trouts, mullets, nothing of value killed by the metric ton!!!!
The icing on the cake was when I approacged a spot where they were building a bridge. THey dropped a section of span off the barge and a tug boat got hung up on it blocking the whole intercoastal!!!!!!!
Bridges cost me three hours. Netters and hour. The blowboats and trawlers got me for another and the stuck tug stole one more. 6 hours... 170 miles worth! I should be in Hilton Head by now...
Got here in the dark... Damnit... I'm Tired... but I feel better now...

[Robja]

Welcome to my world Deep. We came thru that crap last Saturday nite with no spot light. The spot fishermen are out enmasse this time of year on anything that floats and as many people as they can get on a boat. We almost ran one over last week that was sitting in the middle of the ditch with no lights on. On the beach in front of my house there were dozens of netters up and down the beach. They sit out there all nite drinking liquor and pulling and putting out nets.

[Questsportfishing]

after running a nice long stretch making great time and even slowing down and calling a cpl sailboats and letting them know via VHF 'take ya on the one or two ..' .. we get one that says "I'm NOT slowing down!" .. what the hell???? ... so I tell them 'well hold on to your bean pot then...' off we go!!! my mate looks at me funny and the Topaz 44 can carry a great wake!!! made me smile... then about 5 miles up the road a Coastie pulls by us and the guy tells me that they are not Rag Bags , stick boaters , nor are they human...I thought the last one was funny till he explained they were W.A F.I.'s Wind Assisted Fu^#in' Idiots ...I guess there are more than the normal sea creature can take up there now...

[aprilfool]

when they call me complaining on the vhf about me passing them after i try to pass them slow but only if they slow down so not to rock them/ how hard is that to understand that we throw a bigger wake trying to pass them at their full speed? i just dont get it? but i just tell them when they really get screaming at me...... hey if you dont want your boat to rock...... then next time put it on a trailer to move it to florida you idiot!! if they dont have the common courtesy to slow down to pass them nicely then neither do i, screw them all. it is gotten to the point now we would rather sit then run the ditch with all the houses and docks put in these past 15 years you loos e so much time it isnt worth the agrevation.

[whowantstoknow]

Right now you could read a paper by the light... My butt is glowing cherry red after my day...
Last night was a great one in Morehead. Box, Raven, Gottafly, Capt. Tim, Ponytail, Surfergirl, Joeksr, the artwork of Mr. Ray made for really one of the best nights I have had in a long time.Thank all of you!!!
She was puffin pretty good this morn so I decided that I'd ditch run to Cape fear then head south from there... First forty or fifty miles was pretty good. Then I hit the traffic jam. THis is where Jersey and her kinds fault. Insurance companies hate Florida...They seem to think its the only place that gets hurricanes and won't let their covered boats head south til now unless the poor insurees want to pony up double or tripple premium. So by the zillions they wait to go in mass.
With the bad weather recently it held them up til now and I had a solid wall four wide of every rag boat and trawler in this hemisphere infront of me for the next hundred miles!!!Hundreds of em looked like a forest of telephone poles
I tried to be polite where I could but the skunks that were doing 15 knots got a good rockin when I went to pass them... ... Its ok for them to run at maximum wake speed then they get pissed because I have to pass to keep from falling off plane and burning tripple fuel???? Heard my name on the radio a few time and saw a few birds flipped... Hey trawalers... Tough Shit!
I got to southport too late to make any good ground outside so I stuck to the ditch and planned on Myrtle...
I have never seen anything like I saw after that... Litterally hundreds if not close to a thousand boats stretched from there to the South Carolina border all setting and pulling gill nets!!! Across the ditch along side every friggin place!!! No way anything could survive that. I saw lizzard fish, pin fish, baby trouts, mullets, nothing of value killed by the metric ton!!!!
The icing on the cake was when I approacged a spot where they were building a bridge. THey dropped a section of span off the barge and a tug boat got hung up on it blocking the whole intercoastal!!!!!!!
Bridges cost me three hours. Netters and hour. The blowboats and trawlers got me for another and the stuck tug stole one more. 6 hours... 170 miles worth! I should be in Hilton Head by now...
Got here in the dark... Damnit... I'm Tired... but I feel better now...

yo - i dont want to hear it...i just had a great weekend and i read this!!!!!..i got you a quote that would have let you leave for florida anytime you wanted.....so dont blame me...you just got to pay to play!!!! - and i must say...it was a pretty good quote....

[Ravens16]

Deep, it great seeing you guys in Morehead.
Tell Colin I am sorry
I forgot about the damn filets until we were on on way to BOXS' boat, shit!!!
Tell him I'll mail him his shells
Beautiful boat, Captain!

[Robja]

yo - i dont want to hear it...i just had a great weekend and i read this!!!!!..i got you a quote that would have let you leave for florida anytime you wanted.....so dont blame me...you just got to pay to play!!!! - and i must say...it was a pretty good quote....

What the heck are you talking abvout????

[whowantstoknow]

What the heck are you talking abvout????

oh i dont know....i must have read it wrong...i thought he was complaining about not being able to go to Florida until November 1st.........oops.

[clt_capt]

oh i dont know....i must have read it wrong...i thought he was complaining about not being able to go to Florida until November 1st.........oops.

Jersey - Do you ever have a bad weekend???

But I read it the same way - that it was partially your fault that Deep was in the ditch with the WAFIs and Trawlers because they were all too cheap to pay for an all waters policy...

[whowantstoknow]

Jersey - Do you ever have a bad weekend???

But I read it the same way - that it was partially your fault that Deep was in the ditch with the WAFIs and Trawlers because they were all too cheap to pay for an all waters policy...

You know what Fred come to think of it..i havent had a bad weekend in a long..long...long...time. My weeks are pretty good too......hell Life is GREAT right now!!! Im glad you read it that way too.....i didnt think i was still that out of it after last night!!!!