"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 03:06:44 GMT, "Calif Bill"
wrote:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061001/...missing_boater


15 miles off shore in a 17' boat. And what kind of 5 guys in a 17'er to
call it a Pleasure Boat? :)

This kind of "accident" amazes me.

I remember when I first purchased the Ranger, my brother and me went
out of Saybrook to fish Hackett's Reef - onshore wind, waves in the
two/three foot range, but around along the lee of Cornfield Point, it
was a lot calmer and we could reach the reef no problemo.

So we fished the reef for a hour or so when the wind really started up
and the wiser part of me said "bay boat - Long Island Sound - SW Wind
- long fetch - head in and fish the River".

As we were heading in, out goes a 17 foot Boston Whaler Sport with
five guys in it, all drunk on their ass, waving their fishing poles in
the air at all the inbound boats calling everybody pansies.

They no sooner cleared the Saybrook jetty when wham, up one side, boat
flips, down the other.

No PFDs either. We picked up two and another guy in an Aquasport
picked up the other three. I can't remember who towed the boat in.

Dumbasses.

Major problem with BW's. Especially the smaller, older flatter hulls. The
owners say it is a Whaler, it is unsinkable. As a friend of mine and his 2
buds lucked out and after 3 hours of riding on the bottom of the hull, a
commercial fisherman saw them just at dusk. Boat was finally recovered 7
days and 35 miles south. They flip a lot easier than a lot of boats.