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You ask why was rescue needed?
The freaking Mako was full of water, inside the hull and inside the deck as well. The motor was barely above water, I was in water to my butt.
The cracks in the bottom allowed the water to enter the hull, between the bottom and deck. The bilge pump was over whelmed by the flow, the boat was so full of water that instead of lifting over the waves it went through the waves and when it went into a large wave, the last wave, the water came over the bow and into the cockpit and she started to submerge. If I had not backed off the throttle I think she may have gone fully submerged till the engine died and then would have come back up to the bow high stern low position. The floatation foam inside causes it to float that way but believe me, it can get rather scary when your boat is submerging like a submarine on a crash dive and you don't have a scuba set up on!
I was towed by the bow towing clip and by the time we were in New Bedford the hull was empty of water.
I cranked up the Mercury and went to the boat yard under my own power, to be hauled for survey!
Just another chapter in my fifty plus years of being around the Bay!
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