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On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:50:32 -0500, Wayne.B
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On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:49:52 -0800, "Steve B"
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I wonder why there are few licenses required to own high powered boats.

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The law of the sea has its' own way of adjudicating things.

Well said. I prefer good seamanship and experience to a piece of paper
any day. Hopefully people will learn about seamanship, only boat
within their abilities and they will learn about survival at sea..

The sea can take the rest of them. Crabs gotta eat too.

In about 1975, we had to locate a valve on a pipeline on the sea floor in
the Gulf of Mexico. This was pre GPS days. The survey boat came in, did
their electronic gizmo stuff, and steered straight on a heading. Along the
way, when they got to a certain point, they threw off five cane pole buoys
with flags atop them. They ran a perpendicular route to those flags, and
dropped five more, intersecting the previous five.

We dove on the site, and found the valve on the second dive. No horizon in
sight, about 80 miles out. We were impressed.

That same night, they ran into an unmanned platform, and nearly sank. Never
heard the whole story, but I bet someone was stoned, or in an altered state
of consciousness. They could find a needle in a haystack, yet ran into a
stationary steel platform.

Go figger.

Steve

On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:40:17 -0800, "Steve B"
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In about 1975, we had to locate a valve on a pipeline on the sea floor in
the Gulf of Mexico. This was pre GPS days. The survey boat came in, did
their electronic gizmo stuff, and steered straight on a heading. Along the
way, when they got to a certain point, they threw off five cane pole buoys
with flags atop them. They ran a perpendicular route to those flags, and
dropped five more, intersecting the previous five.

We dove on the site, and found the valve on the second dive. No horizon in
sight, about 80 miles out. We were impressed.

That same night, they ran into an unmanned platform, and nearly sank. Never
heard the whole story, but I bet someone was stoned, or in an altered state
of consciousness. They could find a needle in a haystack, yet ran into a
stationary steel platform.

Go figger.

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I'd figger that it should have shown up on both charts and radar.

The law of the sea has its' own way of adjudicating things. And
sometimes there's just bad luck, which you're expected to prepare for
and act accordingly. For all of its charm, the sea just doesn't
care.

On 12/30/2011 6:39 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:49:52 -0800, "Steve
wrote:


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This must just be a Pinellas County thing. We have had two of these in
a couple years. (the football guys)
I assume you watched this in the news too. The mate said the rode
"snapped back" implying it dragged the boat backward and down.
They must have really had a strain on it, probably taking a running
start.
It really sounds like a roadrunner cartoon to me.

In high school, a noted hot rodder put a big V8 in a racing hull. We all
went to the lake to watch him. He made several fast passes, some turns,
then headed towards the dock at medium speed. At the NO WAKE buoy, he
snapped the throttle back. And the wave swamped the transom, sinking the
boat in about 25 feet of water.

I wonder why there are few licenses required to own high powered boats.

Steve


Many years ago a friend of mine had a [factory] jet boat with a Chevy
454. It was the same way, he never sunk it, but he couldn't pull off
an appreciable amount of power quickly without a foot high stern wave
drenching everybody in the aft seats.


That just brought back a memory of the boat the family up the street had
when I was a kid (they were considered "rich" even in our town back
then). They had an 18 foot boat with dual 454's. Yep, it was green, had
Batmobile type front windscreens, fins on the back and went like a
frekin' bat out of hell. I remember the boat was called a "Spoiler". Not
sure if that was the manufacturer, or the model. I remember there were
supposedly a very limited number of these boats made though. We used to
wake board behind it at Congamond Lake in Mass...

On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:39:48 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:33:27 -0500, Wayne.B
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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.

Backing down too fast.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hcOT9tlVA4

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At least that boat is well scuppered.