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33 Foot Boat sinks off Key West While Pulling Anchor From Stern
On 12/29/11 10:09 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:33:27 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:
http://www.winknews.com/Local-Florida/2011-12-28/Boat-sinks-off-Key-West-2-people-rescued-return-to-Ft-Myers
According to the news report they pulled the anchor from the stern
after it became stuck.
"We put it back on the stern to bring it up and we had power on it
and when we had let go, it snatched back and the waves filled the
stern up with water"
It's not clear if it was a low transom boat or not but it sounds like
it might have been.
They were saved by their EPIRB and life raft.
It is a recipe for disaster to shorten the scope of the anchor line
and tug from the stern. Hell, anchoring from the stern isn't a good
idea, either, and for them same reasons.
I wonder how close to being drug under water the stern was, before the
stretchy rode yanked them back.
This guy isn't "unlucky", he's just stupid.
The boat in question was a 33-footer, thus pretty much putting the
kibash on W'hine's attempt to troll.
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