Anatomy of a Bad Day

[rchanner]

I was just looking through some pics from last summer, and I couldn't remember if I had shared these with you guys.

My wife and I went to Morehead City for a weekend....we got there late on Friday afternoon and were going out to the stream Saturday morning, but we decided to go out a few miles that afternoon and troll for some Spanish. We were about a mile out of the inlet, and she spotted a churning bait ball, so we decided to net some menhaden and fill the livewell. There were so many, we just drifted through and used the dip net. Once I had enough, I rigged a couple of them up to see what was driving them into a ball....just then we heard a distress call from a sinking boat. I knew he was close by his description, and before he could give the CG his coordinates, he lost communication. By then we were already under way to try to assist. I called the CG with the coordinates, and within a minute or two we were pulling up to him.

I offered to bring him aboard. His reply: "I spent my life savings on this boat five hours ago. I think I'll just sit here"

We hung around until the CG arrived and had the situation under control.

[Pearl Diver]

That is terrible, good on ya for helping out.

PD

[rchanner]

I really hope he spent at least part of that life savings on an insurance policy before he headed out, but of course, I wasn't about to ask him at that moment!

[Pearl Diver]

You're a better man than me. After hearing he had spent his life savings and didn't want to come aboard, I don't know if I could resist asking if he had insurance...

PD

[Slough]

For a good deed.

[crash1371]

I always like the reminders Sh*t happens pay attention and beaware of your skills and your boat's don't push them over what you can handle

[Trollnheel]

I remember this like it was yesterday...and it's still sickening

[ElyseM]

terrible. conditions didn't look too bad. did you ever find out what caused the swamping? ron

[rchanner]

His distress call was that he was taking on water.

The conditions were a little sloppy, and there were alot of boats coming in the inlet from fishing the Big Rock, so swamping is a very thin outside possibility, but it was a 25' Mako, so it should have been more than sufficient for conditions (since I was on my 23' SeaFox)

My guess woiuld be either a drain plug that didn't get put in or a thru hull failure.

[brian kasson]

How about a life jacket?