Sea Tow...or Sea Pirates

[numbskull]

Originally Posted by Duke41

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

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]

Originally Posted by numbskull

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

Best line of the week!!!

[Roger]

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.

+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]

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.