Rudy, Was the 36 footer too heavy for you? Maybe Jill could have rowed the dink over. Was the current against you? Sad to watch such potential destruction. -- Tom M Theobald Anchored Payson AZ

All true, Tom, but it was the current that Jill wimped out on. *Rudy & Jill Sechez * *BRINEY BUG-a 34' Sail-Assisted Trawler * *Anchoring Consultants-trawlertrainingabc.com* *850-832-7748 * *Charleston SC Northbound-Chesapeake* > >

I pulled a boat off a sandbar once by tying a line upstream and letting it swing to shore. Rain helped float it, no one had the energy to wrestle the silly thing to shore. It was a long day. Well, at least you didn’t have to pay admission. Good reporting. On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:59 AM Rudy Sechez <rudysechez@gmail.com> wrote: > All true, Tom, but it was the current that Jill wimped out on. > > *Rudy & Jill Sechez * > *BRINEY BUG-a 34' Sail-Assisted Trawler * > *Anchoring Consultants-trawlertrainingabc.com* > *850-832-7748 * > *Charleston SC Northbound-Chesapeake* > >> >> -- Tom M Theobald Anchored Payson AZ

maybe I'm from the old ole scholl. If I see a boat in trouble/sinking/etc then I would go see if I could help whether anyone is aboard or not. I my years of being on the water, 60+, I've helped and saved many a boat. Swan Song has a couple of deployable 4000 GPH pumps with hoses attached and a 35' coil of 10 gauge wire with clamps. If there's 12 volts on the boat fine otherwise I use a spare battery or the tender battery. Most slow sinkers are easy to pump and find the leak. Few boats today spring a leak thru the hull planks :-) We've also towed many boats off reefs/groundings with our tender over the years. Most of those were sailboats as it easier to heel them and get them free. It would be tough for me even at 80 to just let a boat sink next to me unless there was some catastrophic reason not to. Dave/Nancy Swan Song Roughwater 58 North Sea Lying in Ft Myers Yacht Basin On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 1:55 PM Tom Theobald via Trawlers-and-Trawlering < trawlers@lists.trawlering.com> wrote: > Rudy, > Was the 36 footer too heavy for you? > Maybe Jill could have rowed the dink over. > Was the current against you? > Sad to watch such potential destruction. > > > -- > Tom M Theobald > Anchored Payson AZ > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.trawlering.com/mailman/listinfo/trawlers_lists.trawlering.com > > To unsubscribe or modify your subscription options (get password, change > email address, etc) go to: > http://lists.trawlering.com/mailman/listinfo/trawlers_lists.trawlering.com > Trawlers & Trawlering and T&T are trademarks of Water World > Productions. Unauthorized use is prohibited. >