15 miles off shore in a 17' boat. And what kind of 5 guys in a 17'er to
call it a Pleasure Boat? :)

This kind of "accident" amazes me.

Heck yeah. If you're drunk enough, anything sounds like fun.


"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote
I remember when I first purchased the Ranger, my brother and me went
out of Saybrook to fish Hackett's Reef - onshore wind, waves in the
two/three foot range, but around along the lee of Cornfield Point, it
was a lot calmer and we could reach the reef no problemo.

So we fished the reef for a hour or so when the wind really started up
and the wiser part of me said "bay boat - Long Island Sound - SW Wind
- long fetch - head in and fish the River".


Sitting at anchor... or drifting in the troughs... is going
to be more uncomfortable that running in seas or even chop.
IMHO a lot of people underway to fish think "this isn't bad
at all" and then when they stop, suddenly it *is* pretty bad."

Sailing doesn't have that problem



As we were heading in, out goes a 17 foot Boston Whaler Sport with
five guys in it, all drunk on their ass, waving their fishing poles in
the air at all the inbound boats calling everybody pansies.

They no sooner cleared the Saybrook jetty when wham, up one side, boat
flips, down the other.

No PFDs either. We picked up two and another guy in an Aquasport
picked up the other three. I can't remember who towed the boat in.

Dumbasses.


And that's complimenting them.


JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
Have you ever known someone who got into 4 car accidents in 18 months, and
always blamed the other drivers? I think it's the same type who goes out in
the wrong weather for their particular boat.


For some people, it's not only a case of not knowing it's
wrong, it's that they have the attitude that there is no
such thing as proper knowledge. Products of successful
'no-skill-required' marketing. Unfortunately for them, it is
in fact a "yes-skill-required" world.

DSK