"Joe" wrote in message
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On Jul 12, 9:18 pm, Vic Smith wrote:
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:40:52 -0700, Joe
wrote:

Loads attached to your bow limit 99% of your control to the
tow,,unless you have flanking rudders or cort nozzles, and again never
seen a sea-tow boat up close but I doubt it.

Just a guess.

Well it was as good as ...if not better than Jon's guess..

The incidents of runaways I've seen they waited for a tight circling
boat to run out of gas, or came alongside and a braveheart jumped
aboard and killed the motor.
I never even heard of prop tangling until you mentioned it, but it
seems like a good idea, because it's hand-off.
Got no idea how to best do it, but tying to a runaway just doesn't
seem like a good idea.
Probably nobody has done this twice, and it might be an on-the-spot
call how to handle it.
I just googled a bit and watched this. Pretty
cool.www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwWaALdeuLM
So maybe the best bet is to call this kid to catch it.

--Vic

Had the helsman of the seatow boat turned away from the circling boat
instead of trying to go with it he would have been fine, taking the
load directly aft and keeping it there. Watch it again and you see he
starts to then decides to try to get alongside...big mistake as he did
not have any slack , moving the load directly abeam causing the boat
to be tripped.

Good story on You Tube.

Joe



I like the idea of snagging the prop... seems like that would just about do
it.

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