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I think I posted, but maybe I hadn't joined this board yet, about a friend and I pulling three teenagers from the cold late September water, some 100 yards off Strawberry point in Cohassett. Their swamped canoes were another 100 yards further out, due to a hard SW blow that day, but the cold water would have done them in shortly. None of them had the strength to get up over the side of my Tracker, which sat really close to the water and all were shivering uncontrollably when we got them in. Only one had a life jacket on, but that wouldn't have saved him, because the only people out that day were a few lobstermen. Nobody in sight for miles, so they were damn lucky we were there. They were drinking heavily no doubt, because even after their sobering dunk, they were clearly drunk.
After dropping them off, we picked up one of the aluminum canoes, which had two illegal sized lobsters in the bottom. No doubt these SMART as a whip boys, were drinking and pulling lobster pots, during a strong SW blow, late in September, out of whimpy 16 foot canoes and without lifejackets on. Talk about stupid and not even a thankyou, just slipped them in the water as close to shore as I dared and waited until they climbed ashore. Big party on the house on that point, so I sure the poor little rich kids, got warm and fuzzy soon.
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