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Originally Posted by numbskull
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.
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+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.