ok. I'm kinda newbie to boating(dad had a 25ft we used for fishing/diving) And after today i seriously got to thinking about how many people are prepared to pull a stranded boat or be pull back in?
(my day )
I was out today doing some data collection on a 60ft sport fisher. We started our run up the coast towards gulfport harbor. Seas were 1 to 3 with bit of chop. Boat was running good(topped out at 46 mph) Captain made the turn back west and backed her down to about 35. About 5 mins run time he chops the throttles and informs us we were getting flagged down for help. We swing in close to a 20ish ft center console. The guy said he could get his ob running and was trying to limp in on a trolling motor but he was just about out of battery. So we start hunting for a tow lie. The only line left on board was one 25 ft dock mine. Luckily the other boat had a 50ish ft piece of 5/16 poly. So we limped it on in at low idle and on just one screw. That was a LOOONG ride back to the dock. But every one made it to shore safely.
(my day )
I was out today doing some data collection on a 60ft sport fisher. We started our run up the coast towards gulfport harbor. Seas were 1 to 3 with bit of chop. Boat was running good(topped out at 46 mph) Captain made the turn back west and backed her down to about 35. About 5 mins run time he chops the throttles and informs us we were getting flagged down for help. We swing in close to a 20ish ft center console. The guy said he could get his ob running and was trying to limp in on a trolling motor but he was just about out of battery. So we start hunting for a tow lie. The only line left on board was one 25 ft dock mine. Luckily the other boat had a 50ish ft piece of 5/16 poly. So we limped it on in at low idle and on just one screw. That was a LOOONG ride back to the dock. But every one made it to shore safely.