likwid
08-05-2004, 03:12 PM
Its sitting over at Fairhaven Shipyard now.
Tore one prop, shaft and strut off.
Tore a stabilizer off
Drove the other stabilizer and prop/shaft/strut up through the hull
20 foot long crack along the edge of the hull below the water line and a few other man sized holes in the hull.
Was doing approx. 30-40 knots when it hit pigs.
Insurance company totaled it.
Good job!
Clammer
08-05-2004, 03:59 PM
as long as no one got hurt =GOTTA love it :happy:
Vectorfisher
08-05-2004, 04:43 PM
Everytime I see that reef I get the willy's. couldnt imagine running into that not knowing it was there.:(
likwid
08-05-2004, 05:22 PM
It was on autopilot with nobody manning it...
Probably sitting there reading a book while it happily plowed towards the boulders.
Fish On
08-05-2004, 05:32 PM
Autopilot at that speed? Wow.
Why wouldn't the autopilot know the reef was there as a hazard?
Mr. Sandman
08-05-2004, 05:53 PM
That reef can eat anything.
It always amazes me when I lfish that place, look at my sounder and it reads 24' and 6' to my starboard is the top of a bolder awash.
Vectorfisher
08-05-2004, 07:16 PM
I would like to throw my dive gear on someday and see what is under there. I bet it's even scarier down under:eek5: :eek5:
Mike P
08-05-2004, 07:25 PM
Originally posted by likwid
It was on autopilot with nobody manning it...
Probably sitting there reading a book while it happily plowed towards the boulders.
Or down in the cockpit pounding down a few beers, like the two maroons who ran their sportfisher up onto False Bar at Montauk a few years back.
I think if you hit at 30 knots, you gotta be drunk not to break something on yourself and not just on the boat :hs:
likwid
08-06-2004, 07:10 AM
Originally posted by Vectorfisher
I would like to throw my dive gear on someday and see what is under there. I bet it's even scarier down under:eek5: :eek5:
House size rocks, human sized stripers and more lobsters hiding in the rocks than you can shake a stick at.
The shaft that was sitting out there (was "informed" by the salvage diver on that job) magically was gone by yesterday morning...
Thats alot of scrap stainless :D
Lotta bottom paint on some of the boulders out there. :laughs:
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