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Default hard aground! (no, not me!)

On Jul 16, 3:30*pm, wrote:
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:51:50 -0700 (PDT), Tim
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On Jul 16, 12:27*pm, bpuharic wrote:
sitting at the dock today...saw towboat pulling in a massive 35'
silverton. *thing has twin engines so it's not an engine problem...and
the bay here runs out of water immediately when you leave the channel.
in fact, i can walk to the channel from the beach without getting my
knees wet at low tide


they put it on the lift and i stroll over. sure enough, both rudders
are *bent to ****. prop edges also bent up. *they put gauges on the
shafts and they're also twisted. *looks like a bad day for him and his
insurance company...


hmmmm, *not good planning. I'm thinking there should be something
about "karma' and 'poetic justice' , but eh... sometimes crap happens.


But regardless, it ruined their day[s]


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