JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
My dad knew a doctor - an otherwise very smart guy, who told us he didn't
need charts for the waters on the North side of Montauk because he knew the
area like the back of his hand. Oops. Ripped the bejeezus out of his hull
one day, cruising with the throttle wide open right into some barely
submerged rocks which were clearly marked on the chart.

Yeah, but he *knew* those rocks were there.

... Bye bye boat.
40-something foot Owens.


Well, if more of those old boats had survived, they wouldn't
be such rare classics today.

DSK