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Originally Posted by Sluggoslinger
Maybe i should put this in the GOP board but I helped a guy last year and had a different experience. He was coming in through the southway with a 25ish foot speed boat and nailded the sand bar before the entrance. There was a decent swell and he started taking waves over the transome. His wife was on board with their baby in her arms. I ran to my boat went out around and threw him a line to attach to his bow. I pulled him a little bit out to sea and he figured out that he had blow his prop so I said I would bring him in. I waited for a set of big waves to go by and he yelled "where are you going" I said I wanted to wait for the waves to pass so you don't surf into my motor... Finally I got him in through the narrow channel and pulled him to shore in a safe are. He didnt' even look me in the eye when he said a half assed thanks... I risked allot by helping him and the guy was totally unappriciative...
Would i do it again... yes
I'll bet he was in shock. Can't imagine that once he came to that he didn't really appreciate all that you had done for him, his wife and his baby.
I was coming in fromJeffreis Ledge one day in a thick fog (1/4 mile visibility at best) when an 18 foot runabout (more of a lake boat than even an inshore ocean boat) approached me from me from the northwest between 5 and 6 PM. He flagged me down and asked me how to get to Hampton Harbor. Well this guy was about 10 miles off shore with a heading east of Glouceter with no GPS, no compass, no radio, low on full and a panick stricken girlfriend. I handed him a 5 gal tank of gas and I told him to stay on my stern and I would take him into the Merrmimac River where he could gas up and then hug the coast back up to Hampton.
He was appeciative and thanked me but again I think he was incredibly scared and somewhat in shock. He may have EASILY become a statistic had he not run into someone.
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