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Pacificcoast101



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 30, 2019 8:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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While slowly navigating through a swarm of ski jets on the ICW, one of them cuts right in front of our bow. My wife turns to port to maneuver away from him, only to find that he was towing someone on a raft. Could have been very ugly if my wife didn’t throw us in reverse
There was a teen in Long Beach, California several years ago who thought it would be fun to jump the wake of a passing ski boat. He didn't notice the skier behind the boat and was decapitated by the tow rope.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 31, 2019 2:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pacificcoast101 wrote:
Ferg wrote:
While slowly navigating through a swarm of ski jets on the ICW, one of them cuts right in front of our bow. My wife turns to port to maneuver away from him, only to find that he was towing someone on a raft. Could have been very ugly if my wife didn’t throw us in reverse
There was a teen in Long Beach, California several years ago who thought it would be fun to jump the wake of a passing ski boat. He didn't notice the skier behind the boat and was decapitated by the tow rope.


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Foggy



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PostPosted: Sat Aug 31, 2019 2:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No doubt stuff happens; some stupid, some dumb, some called one when it's
actually the other.

To clarify:

Dumb is when someone doesn't know any better.

Stupid is when someone knows better but does it anyway.

Take what's going on in the world, involving boats and everything else, and
you'll see plenty of both.

Aye.

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Ferg



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 01, 2019 11:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My buddy was captaining a high speed cat pulling in to dock in San Francisco when some genius on a jet ski decided it would be fun to drive between the hulls.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 02, 2019 2:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't know how this rates (and not the dumbest thing) but the most consistently dumb thing I see people do, over and over, is buy a boat far larger than their experience dictates, which leads to scenes like below (maddened docking):

https://youtu.be/Ky5rwDPghbE

Ultimately these guys ended up on the hook riding out one of the worst storms we've seen because they couldn't handle boat docking (or the boat in general). Don't find this kind of thing in the C-Dory crowd. A refreshing thing.

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smckean (Tosca)



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 03, 2019 2:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I guess I don't care if folks are so self-deluded that they waste their money on damaging a boat they can't handle (I see the same mentality in snow skiing.....where folks think that their poor skiing skills will somehow be magically "fixed" with a new, expensive set of skis). However, it's these overly self-confident, self-denying individuals that raise insurance rates for all of us! Unfortunately, we all pay for this stupidity.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 03, 2019 5:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some people have the hardest time even in calm conditions. Smile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3ml2KXuHv4
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 03, 2019 9:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Too much wind? Too much current? Or just too much to drink... Or possibly a mechanical problem? I'm thinking choice c.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 11, 2019 8:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I spent a night at the fuel (E) dock at Nanaimo Harbor Authority dock recently.
I was reading a good book, so didn't turn in at dark, instead it was about 11:30PM. Between dark and when I quit reading I counted 19 little commuter boats over about 2.5 hours that were going in and out of the harbor with NO LIGHTS, nav or otherwise. I didn't count the one that I could see the cigarette glow as a light. Besides these little commuters (10 to 16 feet) there are also big commercial tugs, commercial fishing boats, and big yachts coming in and out. I guess all those commuter types just think that since they cross there all the time, everybody knows when and where they go. Thump thump.

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