Another idiot on the water

[SKYCHENEY]

We took a short trip to Muskegon this weekend and stayed at a new marina development there. Construction was still underway but the facilities were nice and the restaurant there was good, so it was worth the trip.
Saw a nice sunset from the boat

But later that night, after dark around 10pm, I hear a loud crash and the ripping of fiberglass. I run out and look around the marina but don't notice anything. Then I look out the entrance channel and see what looks like a boat right at the fixed red marker in the lake. About 10 minutes later I hear sirens and see a firetruck, 2 ambulances, and other vehicles pull into the parking lot. And probably 5 minutes later a Sheriff's boat is out at that marker looking over the situation. Soon, there are 3 Sheriff's boats and then a Coast Guard boat. After some time, one boat comes in with first responders tending to a person on the deck of the center console boat. Eventually that individual is lifted on a back board to a stretcher and transported to an ambulance. Another load of passengers is brought into the harbor by a second Sheriff's boat. In all it looked like 6 passengers and a dog, with two of them hauled off on stretchers. The CG and Sheriff then took about an hour looking over the wreck and deciding if they would remove it (I assume). But they eventually left for the night around 11:30. Here is a picture I took the next day.

It looks like a 4 Winns and he must have been moving fast to split it open like that. The funny thing is there still has been no news coverage of this at all. It makes me wonder who was aboard and who owns the boat.

 

[SEVEN]

Unbelievable.

 

[drburke]

Sorry, but I am not so good at identifying those sorts of boats.

But I am wondering if that is the same vessel in your sunset pic with people preparing to go out...

DAN

 

[Pascal]

I wonder if they did an alcohol test…. It’s a lit marker!!! Probably had his electronics on full bright and a bunch of lights around the helm destroying his night vision

This happens all the time here in miami. The level of stupidity has reached such levels that I use a dash cam at the helm of the office. Just to CYA.

This screen shot is from Saturday afternoon, I was in the right side of the ICW, and couldn’t move any further as a small boat was passing on my starboard. This clown passed about 3’ away despite having 100 yards of space on his side. Two sets of 5 blasts didn’t dissuade him either.

 

[SKYCHENEY]

Sorry, but I am not so good at identifying those sorts of boats.

But I am wondering if that is the same vessel in your sunset pic with people preparing to go out...

DAN

No that is a SeaRay

 

[Captain Ralph]

I wonder if they did an alcohol test…. It’s a lit marker!!! Probably had his electronics on full bright and a bunch of lights around the helm destroying his night vision

This happens all the time here in miami. The level of stupidity has reached such levels that I use a dash cam at the helm of the office. Just to CYA.

This screen shot is from Saturday afternoon, I was in the right side of the ICW, and couldn’t move any further as a small boat was passing on my starboard. This clown passed about 3’ away despite having 100 yards of space on his side. Two sets of 5 blasts didn’t dissuade him either.

Here is where a fire hose test was needed. Start a stream off to port and I wonder if they would of moved then or the guest get soaked...

 

[bostonhatteras]

I know a couple guys who crashed a 30 or so searay into a 4' steel marker/mooring ball at speed. one guy broke a rib and other guy was beat up too but they laugh about it to the crowd. i wonder how they speak to themselves internally about it.

 

[Captain Ralph]

I know a couple guys who crashed a 30 or so searay into a 4' steel marker/mooring ball at speed. one guy broke a rib and other guy was beat up too but they laugh about it to the crowd. i wonder how they speak to themselves internally about it.

Speak to themselves internally about it??
Arrogance, ignorance, stupidity, brain damage, big check book and maybe some good lawyers.
There is no conscious or remorse from these meat heads.
Their back out the next opportunity doing the same thing..

It is a good idea to keep me aweigh from phasers and photon torpedoes while I travel in Aqua Space.
Fire hoses may not be a good idea on our boat either.

 

[bigbill]

he probably had his course set on the marker and it brought him strait to it....maybe even on auto pilot

 

[madhatter1]

That will easily buff right out.

 

[Bob Bradley]

And what a pretty boat it was. Such a shame.

 

[Miss Swivel]

Had he been piloting a Hatteras, he would have just plowed over the mark, felt a slight bump and said to his wife, "honey, did you feel something?"

 

[bostonhatteras]

It is a good idea to keep me aweigh from phasers and photon torpedoes while I travel in Aqua Space.
Fire hoses may not be a good idea on our boat either.

You must have made a potato gun, at one time anyway

 

[rsmith]

Here is where a fire hose test was needed. Start a stream off to port and I wonder if they would of moved then or the guest get soaked...

That’s assault believe it or not. There was a local lady arrested for spraying a guy fishing by her dock. She got tired of the guy showing up at 5am everyday blasting music and snagging lines on her dock so she turned the hose on him and he called the cops. We have gangbangers doing drivebys in FtPierce every night but a 75yo lady with a hose is public enemy no1

 

[Captain Ralph]

You must have made a potato gun, at one time anyway

Muzzleloading Potato Mortar, yes we did.
Stuffed with big firecrackers or m-80s, short sections of sparklers for a fuse delay, we near perfected an exploding potato also.
Until...
The mother of that old lady with the water hose, called the law on us.
Nosy ole bitty.

My father laughed at and with the police officer so hard and loud, My brother and I did not get a whopping.
Our kit was destroyed and we (every kid in the hood) avoided that old lady.

 

[Phasma2128]

My Hatteras can beat Chuck Norris

 

[rwaldrop13]

I was on staff at Boy Scout camp outside of Nashville, TN (Boxwell Reservation, Old Hickory Lake for those of y'all that know) when I was a youngster. My tentmate and I were out in the canoe fishing on a Saturday evening and nearly got swamped by a ski boat blasting past us so close (we were 30-40 feet from shore) he nearly took us out. About an hour later we're on the dock and see him across the lake on his dock, doing something on his boat. Suddenly a fireball erupts out of the water/boat, and we're feeling it almost a 1/4 mile away. Found out from news that his wife saw him using a cigarette lighter to illuminate while he was swapping fuel tanks around. She tried to stop him - by screaming from the house on the top of the hill. We called it Darwinism.

 

[krush]

....... We called it Darwinism.

So what you're saying is....you didn't get swamped any more that summer by a ski boat?