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How Not To Run An Inlet

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Great kid. Thanks for the share.
 
That story made the national news this morning. Great story about the kid. John
 
This was on Active Captain's FB page as well. It generated some interesting dialog on how to run an inlet, and how to rig a boat. Neither of which Captain Crash did correctly.
 
Dan Mapes said:
This was on Active Captain's FB page as well. It generated some interesting dialog on how to run an inlet, and how to rig a boat. Neither of which Captain Crash did correctly.
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How should it be done, then?
 
Hindsight is 20/20

I woukd like to hear how others would run that little boat through that inlet. I know I'd keep the Bow up high if possible.
 
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Hindsight is 20/20I woukd like to hear how others would run that little boat through that inlet. I know I'd keep the Bow up high if possible.
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Tabs up and not outrun the waves in a following sea. Remember the sport fish that tossed her captain a couple of years back? Was it Ft Pierce? Same deal. Outran his wave and stuck the bow.
 
Same inlet. never ran it but it’s week known that Jupiter can be brutal.
 
that captain of the sportfish (Waterdog??) did not out run the wave he launched the boat off a standing wave due to the water ripping out. He was way too hot coming in and got a little sideways and the wave was larger than it must have looked to him, boat tried to broach, throwing him off the FB.....different situation......Pat
 
Same inlet that killed the Captain of the Waterdog. Jupiter kills about one person a year and is known to be treacherous.

The second video in the link is a little clearer, but it's still too short to tell us if the guy got in trouble or if he just boogered it up from the get go. My thinking is that in either case when he was running down the face of the wave in the beginning and the bow dug in he backed off the throttle. Then the following wave caught up and broached him. He really had only one moment to save it at that point which was when the bow came up slightly and he was in the trough he could have added power to pick the bow up and get on the back of the wave in front of him.

It's all very easy to armchair quarterback it, but my biggest takeaway from this is how quickly things can go all pear-shaped on you and wearing a lifejacket is a great idea in those conditions, especially when you are boating alone. Much better than waiting for a 13 Y.O. to come along and save your @$$.

And BTW, that kid is going to be getting more action from the 13 Y.O. girls in his class than anybody could dream of.
 
Wait for the tide to be rising with inbound current or run down to Lake Worth where there is a good inlet.

Bobk
 
First off rough inlet. It is shallow with a lot of current and easily attracts big swells.

2nd: This guy is a professional and should have known better. Either ride the back of a wave or head to Palm Beach.

3rd: He is severely overloaded with the weight towards the bow. Not enough flotation. Carolina boats have that flare to act as more flotation when going in Oregon inlet. He on the other hand did not.

I feel bad for the guy he is a commercial fisherman that just lost his boat. Sad all around but could have been avoided.
 
Youboob vid of the film in the news link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHqmpM8Wnio

It shows a little more, but not enough to be conclusive.

To me it still looks a lot like he had overshot a wave, surfed down the face, panicked and pulled back, then got run over by the following wave and his own wake.

At about the 8 sec. mark he may have had a chance to juice it, pick the bow up and get on the back of the wave in front, but it was a tiny window.
 
Unfortunately, he made a bad decision and put himself in a situation where there was absolutely zero margin for error. He’s lucky that kid was there.
 
I’ve noticed at the boat show all these big center consoles have giant coffin boxes in the bow since there is nowhere to put stuff
 
Not enough footage to see what really happened. Does look like he may have backed off the throttle but the force of the wave he stuffed the bow in could have been what slowed the boat down. That’s a lot of force pushing against the bow and hard to say if giving it more throttle would have helped once he overshot the wave. All we can say for certain is he’s very lucky he wasn’t killed and that kid was around to help him out of the water.
 
As far as safety goes I'd think there's a reason to wear a life jacket in that inlet on smaller boats.
 
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