View Full Version : Sea Tow...or Sea Pirates


Duke41
12-05-2012, 04:35 PM
Read this blog, you have got to be kidding me. Seatow comes off as looking pretty sleazy. Two sides to every story however...well make up your own mind.

turf to surf | one couple, two cats and a monohull on the move (http://turftosurf.com/)

Piscator
12-05-2012, 05:31 PM
Read this blog, you have got to be kidding me. Seatow comes off as looking pretty sleazy. Two sides to every story however...well make up your own mind.

turf to surf | one couple, two cats and a monohull on the move (http://turftosurf.com/)

TowBoat US is what is in this article, might want to change your title as it says SeaTow, TowBoatUS and SeaTow are two different operations.

Piscator
12-05-2012, 05:37 PM
Call or email Capt. Ethan Maass for South Shore Seatow and ask him. He's a good guy.

Marshfield Boat Boat Towing & Marine Assistance | Sea Tow South Shore (http://southshore.seatow.com/contact-us)

thefishingfreak
12-05-2012, 06:33 PM
Ambulance chasers
Unfortunately people in a fear situation are easy to take advantage of.
Heard one of the tow operations this summer in a squall "salvaging" 2 boats off a sand bar. They no doubt would have both been fine once the squall passed, but in a panic situation the boats were very relieved to have assistance.
The tow operators monitor the VHF for their chance to pounce and usually the first one on scene gets the cookie
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Duke41
12-06-2012, 08:41 AM
they should hoist the JollyRoger as the approach.

Typhoon
12-06-2012, 12:22 PM
Call or email Capt. Ethan Maass for South Shore Seatow and ask him. He's a good guy.

Marshfield Boat Boat Towing & Marine Assistance | Sea Tow South Shore (http://southshore.seatow.com/contact-us)

+1

-Andrew

JFigliuolo
12-07-2012, 01:18 PM
WTF??? that's insane.

MakoMike
12-07-2012, 03:31 PM
Read this blog, you have got to be kidding me. Seatow comes off as looking pretty sleazy. Two sides to every story however...well make up your own mind.

turf to surf | one couple, two cats and a monohull on the move (http://turftosurf.com/)

What kind of a gay blowboat website did you direct us to? :hihi::hihi:

numbskull
12-07-2012, 09:41 PM
Read this blog, you have got to be kidding me. Seatow comes off as looking pretty sleazy. Two sides to every story however...well make up your own mind.

turf to surf | one couple, two cats and a monohull on the move (http://turftosurf.com/)

I disagree.
If the fool running the boat put her boat aground somewhere where coast guard needed jet skis to get lines through the surf to pull her off it is a salvage situation, not a towing operation. Pulling hard aground boats off shoals is a whole different order of magnitude of risk, liability, and strain on the salvage vessel.

You pay these people for towing insurance, not stupidity insurance.

piemma
12-08-2012, 06:03 AM
You pay these people for towing insurance, not stupidity insurance.

Best line of the week!!!

Roger
12-08-2012, 09:52 AM
I disagree.
If the fool running the boat put her boat aground somewhere where coast guard needed jet skis to get lines through the surf to pull her off it is a salvage situation, not a towing operation. Pulling hard aground boats off shoals is a whole different order of magnitude of risk, liability, and strain on the salvage vessel.

You pay these people for towing insurance, not stupidity insurance.

+1. And on top of all of that, according to the blog, the un-gounding and tow were NOT treated as salvage. That jerk is bitching about didn't happen.

She also wrote, "We ran aground three times in the ICW..." and then on entering an inlet, "causing us to circle for 15 minutes in front of one particular green buoy until we could figure out which side to pass it on"

All this blog did is confirm that some mariners are clueless idiots - like we didn't know that already.

rphud
12-09-2012, 09:36 AM
Had one guy in Cape May try to charge over $400 to pull the boat 20 feet off a little bar between the gas pump and ramp at low tide. He was right there with us when it happened and two of us watched him "tow" from shore about 50 feet away just to give this some perspective. The post tow "discussion" was heated to say the least. There were three of us and one of him. I think he dialed 9-1 before cooler heads prevailed.

Van
12-10-2012, 09:30 AM
What kind of a gay blowboat website did you direct us to? :hihi::hihi:


That was 15 minutes of my life wasted that I never get back.


Never had an issue with seatow. With the old power plant on back, I needed them on several occassions.

Duke41
12-11-2012, 05:19 PM
AHAHAH HAHAHAH VAN you are my puppet
15 mins is just the begining.

Jackbass
12-12-2012, 01:08 PM
Sorry but the blogger sounds like a pretentious self righteous douche.

I have never owned a boat never plan on it but I know what side of a green buoy you pass.
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