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Whats the proper thing to do here?
Ran aground, couldnt power off, tide rising so I'm ok, just settin
reading the paper waitin. 20' power boat comes by, offers help, I explain bout the tide, he insists his boat can pull me off. I foolishly agree just to shut him up. Tie a 1/2" nylon line to my bow cleats, before I can say anything, he gets a running start and cannot hear me yelling for him to stop. He takes off, line goes taut, he seems to stop dead as part of his transom tears off and then flies in a beautiful arc over my bow to splash in the water behind me, bummer. Instead of sinking, he manages to beach his boat about 50' away and walks back to his truck. Should I offer him any compensation at all? I did offer to give him some fiberglass cloth and resin. |
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wrote in message ups.com... Ran aground, couldnt power off, tide rising so I'm ok, just settin reading the paper waitin. 20' power boat comes by, offers help, I explain bout the tide, he insists his boat can pull me off. I foolishly agree just to shut him up. Tie a 1/2" nylon line to my bow cleats, before I can say anything, he gets a running start and cannot hear me yelling for him to stop. He takes off, line goes taut, he seems to stop dead as part of his transom tears off and then flies in a beautiful arc over my bow to splash in the water behind me, bummer. Instead of sinking, he manages to beach his boat about 50' away and walks back to his truck. Should I offer him any compensation at all? I did offer to give him some fiberglass cloth and resin. Claim the chunk of transom hit you about the head and shoulders as it flew by and sue his idiotic butt for damages and pain and suffering. CN |
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Learn from it.
First of all, the fact that you had to shut him up should have been a tip off. Letting someone engage in a potentially dangerous and unnecessary act is a poor way to make the noise stop. If he was competent to tow you off, he should have been able to figure out the situation. Second, always brief any operation. Discuss exactly what you are going to do and how. One of you could have been seriously hurt or even killed here. I'd now stay as far away as you can. This could be the kind of jamoke who now comes back to sue you. -- Roger Long wrote in message ups.com... Ran aground, couldnt power off, tide rising so I'm ok, just settin reading the paper waitin. 20' power boat comes by, offers help, I explain bout the tide, he insists his boat can pull me off. I foolishly agree just to shut him up. Tie a 1/2" nylon line to my bow cleats, before I can say anything, he gets a running start and cannot hear me yelling for him to stop. He takes off, line goes taut, he seems to stop dead as part of his transom tears off and then flies in a beautiful arc over my bow to splash in the water behind me, bummer. Instead of sinking, he manages to beach his boat about 50' away and walks back to his truck. Should I offer him any compensation at all? I did offer to give him some fiberglass cloth and resin. |
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ups.com... Ran aground, couldnt power off, tide rising so I'm ok, just settin reading the paper waitin. 20' power boat comes by, offers help, I explain bout the tide, he insists his boat can pull me off. I foolishly agree just to shut him up. Tie a 1/2" nylon line to my bow cleats, before I can say anything, he gets a running start and cannot hear me yelling for him to stop. He takes off, line goes taut, he seems to stop dead as part of his transom tears off and then flies in a beautiful arc over my bow to splash in the water behind me, bummer. Instead of sinking, he manages to beach his boat about 50' away and walks back to his truck. Should I offer him any compensation at all? I did offer to give him some fiberglass cloth and resin. This would be funny if it weren't so sad. Best advice is to leave well enough alone. This guy clearly isn't too bright. Good lesson for next time... don't accept help just because someone shows up offering it. Have an action plan. Make sure everyone gets it. Have a knife ready. Stay the heck away from the line after it's under load. -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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Having been around ropes 'n such for years, I have a healthy respect
for things under tension so I got back in the cockpit before he even got under way. His attempt to use inertia was totally unexpected as I expected a gentle tug. His boat seemde to be an older one of indiscernable brand but had a wooden transom and an old 2 cycle engine. Must not have been too much of a loss. I'll probably see him at the bar near here and find out what he does about it. |
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wrote in message ups.com... Ran aground, couldnt power off, tide rising so I'm ok, just settin reading the paper waitin. 20' power boat comes by, offers help, I explain bout the tide, he insists his boat can pull me off. I foolishly agree just to shut him up. Tie a 1/2" nylon line to my bow cleats, before I can say anything, he gets a running start and cannot hear me yelling for him to stop. He takes off, line goes taut, he seems to stop dead as part of his transom tears off and then flies in a beautiful arc over my bow to splash in the water behind me, bummer. Instead of sinking, he manages to beach his boat about 50' away and walks back to his truck. Should I offer him any compensation at all? I did offer to give him some fiberglass cloth and resin. I expect to hear: Oops...my bad. |
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*JimH* wrote: wrote in message ups.com... Ran aground, couldnt power off, tide rising so I'm ok, just settin reading the paper waitin. 20' power boat comes by, offers help, I explain bout the tide, he insists his boat can pull me off. I foolishly agree just to shut him up. Tie a 1/2" nylon line to my bow cleats, before I can say anything, he gets a running start and cannot hear me yelling for him to stop. He takes off, line goes taut, he seems to stop dead as part of his transom tears off and then flies in a beautiful arc over my bow to splash in the water behind me, bummer. Instead of sinking, he manages to beach his boat about 50' away and walks back to his truck. Should I offer him any compensation at all? I did offer to give him some fiberglass cloth and resin. I expect to hear: Oops...my bad. Truth is, I did sorta know this guy many years ago. At that time, I had a problem with my old Yanmar 1gm engine and he was described as the local inboard mechanic. This was at a time when there were really no local mechanics working on diesels and he said he could diagnose my problem (wouldnt reach high rpm). While I lounged int he cockpit, he climbed into the locker to measure compression, seemed reasonable to me. He told me to push the starter button which I did for a few strokes and then there was a loud "POP" from the locker followed by cursing. Turns out he had decided to make a fiting for an automotive compression guage allowing it to be held in the same position as the injector. The POP was the guage bursting cuz he hadn't thought of the much higher compression of the diesel. I did pay him for his effort then and even though I knew diesels have really high compression, I was so impressed by his attempt at weird engineering that in a way I had to admire his effort. I didnt know his poor judgement was a pattern... Later, a mechanic simply pointed an infrared thermometer at my exhaust and declared it was partially clogged, problem solved, amazing. I s'pose I was just too relaxed about his offer to help this time. |
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wrote in message
ups.com... Ran aground, couldnt power off, tide rising so I'm ok, just settin reading the paper waitin. 20' power boat comes by, offers help, I explain bout the tide, he insists his boat can pull me off. I foolishly agree just to shut him up. Tie a 1/2" nylon line to my bow cleats, before I can say anything, he gets a running start and cannot hear me yelling for him to stop. He takes off, line goes taut, he seems to stop dead as part of his transom tears off and then flies in a beautiful arc over my bow to splash in the water behind me, bummer. Instead of sinking, he manages to beach his boat about 50' away and walks back to his truck. Should I offer him any compensation at all? I did offer to give him some fiberglass cloth and resin. I hope you were kind enough to resist bursting out laughing. -- Peter Aitken |
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