bad day on the water

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2 rescued from sinking boat in Seattle
02:53 PM PST on Monday, November 26, 2007
SEATTLE – Two people were pulled from the waters of Puget Sound after a boat began taking on water Monday afternoon.
The rescue happened around 12:15 p.m. near Shilshole Bay Marina in North Seattle.
A Coast Guard boat was able to rescue the man and woman from the 30-foot pleasure craft and transfer them to a Seattle Harbor Patrol Boat.
Video from the scene shortly after the rescue was called out shows only the bow of the boat sticking out of the water.
It's not clear if the rescued boaters are hurt.
The Coast Guard is trying to determine the environmental impact.

Two rescued from sinking boat in Shilshole Bay
By MIKE BARBER
P-I REPORTER
The Coast Guard and Seattle Police Harbor Patrol rescued a man and a woman from a boat that was sinking near Shilshole Marina on Monday afternoon.
Coast Guard Sector Seattle responded to a mayday about the 30-foot pleasure craft around 12:15 p.m. after receiving a call from Harbor Patrol of a boat in distress 300 yards west of Shilshole Bay.
The Coast Guard dispatched a 41-foot utility boat from Pier 36. Meanwhile, a Coast Guard marine safety and security team was the first to arrive after diverting their 25-foot small response boat. The team rescued the two people on board and transferred them to a Seattle Police Harbor Patrol vessel.
The boat was not fully submerged, and the Harbor Patrol unit was assessing salvage efforts, a Coast Guard spokesman said.
The type of boat was not immediately available. The cause of the mishap and the extent of environmental damage were being investigated.

p.s. - I'm guessing its a 60's, 70's era Tollycraft .

Cheers,
Tom
 
The Mike Barber reporting for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is not the same as the one AKA TyBoo. It might be the one who played for the Houston Oilers back in the '70s. That Mike Barber wasn't me, either.
 
That boat had outboards???

I was hoping to hear why the boat sunk. It was a nice day out I believe. I was wandering if it was a bad pump or did they hit a log.
 
Geez, Tom - I guess it was too obscure a reference! Jim of jimandlaurie is the Rear Commodore or some darn thing of the Tacoma Outboard Association, it was just poking fun at Jim. No, as far as I know, they did not put outboards on 1960s 30 foot Chris Crafts!!!!
starcrafttom":1pw50bw9 said:
That boat had outboards???
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The report I heard on King-5 was that they had recently purchased the boat and this was to be their first venture out on it! Didn't get far from Shilshole and one engine quit. The owner checked below and found the water rising fast. So much for the "Maiden Voyage".
 
ffheap":3bzgpnk2 said:
Remember, a bad day on the water beats a good day ashore.

Fred
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Depends how bad the day on the water is, in this boater's :cry: case I’d bet he would have traded for a good day on shore.
 
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