DO YOU? ....DO YOU COME FLYING INTO YOUR DOCK SPACE IN REVERSE , FACING BACKWARDS, HANDS ON THE THROTTLES....WITHN TRANSOM BACK WASH FLYING AND CHURNING WHILE YOU ARE ON YOUR TESTOSTERONE RUSH....YOUR RIGS RPMS ARE ALL REEVED UP....JUST SO YOU CAN SHOW OFF YOUR "COWBOY" DRIVING SKILLS? ARE YOU ONE OF THESE ? I SHOULD HOPE NOT. I HAVE SEEN A LOT OF COWBOYS IN BILLFISH TOURNY....MANY IN OCEAN CITY AND CPAE MAY......WHY THE RACE FROM THE CANYONS TO THE MOUTH OF THE INLET IN OC IS A DISGRACE!!! I HAVE LITERALLY BEEN RUN OVER BY THE MEGA YACHT SO CALLED SPORTFISHING CROWD IN OCEAN CITY ....WHY I ASK? ....THEY SEE SOMEONE ON A LESSER-SLOWER BOAT AND FEEL THEY SHOULD PULL OVER!! BULLSHIT I SAY! THE ENTRY INTO AN INLET SHOULD BE RESPECTFUL AND SAFE....IF YOU ARE ONE OF THESE HOTSHOT 40 KNOT "I'M GONNA BLOW YOU OUT OF THE INLET COWBOYS" ...THEN I SAY "SCREW YOU TOO YOU FRIGGING IDOT! YOUR TIME WILL COME.....OH YES....YOU TIME WILL COME WHEN YOU MAY NEED THAT LITTLE SLOW BOAT"
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED STANDING INNOCENTLY DOCKSIDE AS SOME LASH LARUE CAPTAIN OVER POWERS HIS WATER WEAPON INTO SAID SLIP .... ONLY TO BREAK A GEAR OR THROTTLE CABLE AT THE LAST SECOND AND GO CRASHING INTO UNSUSPECTING SURROUNDINGS, DOCKS, ,BOATS, AND PEOPLE
HELL I'VE EVEN REPLACED MYSELF AN 850 DOLLAR PILING CAUSED BY A INSTANTAEOUSLY BREAKING THROTTLE CABLE....IT WAS EITHER THE PILING OR THE MILLION DOLLAR RIG "SEA SPUD"......I CHOSE TO TAKE OUT THE PILING
WHY JUST A COUPLE DAYS AGO IN MHC....A WELL KNOW STEEL HEADBOAT BROKE A GEAR GOING INTO HIS SLIP....ONLY TO TAKE OUT 3 NATIONALLY KNOWN CHARTER BOATS ALONG WITH THE FINGER PIERS.....
OH , BUT HE WAS NOT DOING THE COWBOY THING...NO SIR ...BUT YOU DON'T STOP A 120 FT RIG ON A DIME! THIS ACCIDENT TORE THE ENTIRE FISHBOX OUT OF THE STERN OF THE "BILL COLLECTOR" AND DONE MORE SEVERE DAMAGE TO TWO OTHERS......I THINK ONE BOAT WILL MISS THE ENTIRE BLUEFIN SEASON
THINK PEOPLE THINK!!! BE COURTEOUS AND SAFE WHEN IN A MARINA AREA....THE RIG AND LIFE YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN
I've seen a few boats slam into the bulkheads, it's not a pretty sight...
I have a fast boat, not as fast as some and not as large as some.. I play follow the leader into the inlets and through the channels.
I also have a rule while I'm docking, keep your hands and body parts away while I put the boat into the slip. I never use anything more than idle and it crawls into place. Noone is knocked down in the process and my boat is not banged up.
Better SAFE than SORRY..
BTW: Remember, YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WAKE YOU PUSH!
I hear ya on this one Marty.... I see it all too often... I'll content myself with the granny creep and the safe tie up... I broke a throttle cable at the dock last year and came to a bumbing grinding halt... Equipment failure yes, embarressed yes... But it would have been worse if I hadn't been crawling along... Fixed the ding and got on with business. Great topic. I'll leave the reverse race to the others.... I'd rather let my flags do the talking.
Good topic,
I had a little bit of a scare three weeks ago when my sleeve caught my throttle and I was still in reverse. almost took out the whole dock behind me, but because I WAS COMING IN SLOW AND IN CONTROL OF MY BOAT,I was able to pop it into nuetral before I wiped out chucks docks. lol
Thing is, come into the dock normal not like speed racer on crack and wipe out everything. The trick is go out to a open place and learn the boat, if ya know the boat dont show off and ruin sombodys day.
Marty couldn't agree more. I have seen it 1st hand in HI where the charters must do it to impress the clients at the end of the day. Not all but many. I often wondered what would happen if....now I know. Even the experienced can have a mechancial failure that will wipe out a dock. The inexperienced make slow a sometimes stomach wrenching issue when they are coming in beside you. Good topic and hopefully it will make people think not just at the dock but overall. We slow down for fog and have 6 MPH around docks we should be careful passing in the inlets as well. Wakes can relly throw boats around.
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Marty, we saw that incident happen and it was sad. I walked over to help and was there when Steven and Dale came down, they were first class in there actions and told Woo that sh$t happens.
Amen, brother....see this a lot and it pisses me off royally..... I was taught to only go as fast as you're willing to hit something in close spaces....
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