JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"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.




I'll never forget a time when I was probably 10 years old, we had just
anchored the family sailboat when in comes a guy in a probably 30'
powerboat, drops his anchor and then proceeds to run around in circles
going forward at probably 15 knots trying to set it, wish I remembered
the outcome of that but it amazes me to this day he didn't get it wound
around his prop.