On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 00:35:15 GMT, "Grumman-581"
wrote:

I had a case right after I bought my boat where I was 8 nm offshore and had
engine trouble and could not get it restarted... No one would answer my
radio calls or stop when I tried to flag them down... I put up the top and
figured that sooner or later the south wind would get me back to the Texas
coast... Eventually, a Coastie happened by and gave me a tow back to
shore... I took back nearly all the things I said about them when I was in
the Navy... grin

It was kind of interesting to see how my boat handled being towed... Since
it was a jet boat, there wasn't an outboard acting as a rudder, so the boat
kind of wandered back and forth between the two sides of the wake of their
boat...



yeah we just towed a sailboat that lost its steering...wasnt much fun
for the folks in the boat...

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