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12-05-2012, 05:31 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Marshfield, Ma
Posts: 2,150
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Originally Posted by Duke41
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TowBoat US is what is in this article, might want to change your title as it says SeaTow, TowBoatUS and SeaTow are two different operations. |
"I know a taxidermy man back home. He gonna have a heart attack when he see what I brung him!"
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12-05-2012, 06:33 PM
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"Fishbucket"
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Bahston Hahbah
Posts: 6,588
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Ambulance chasers
Unfortunately people in a fear situation are easy to take advantage of.
Heard one of the tow operations this summer in a squall "salvaging" 2 boats off a sand bar. They no doubt would have both been fine once the squall passed, but in a panic situation the boats were very relieved to have assistance.
The tow operators monitor the VHF for their chance to pounce and usually the first one on scene gets the cookie
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12-06-2012, 08:41 AM
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got gas?
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 1,716
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they should hoist the JollyRoger as the approach.
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12-06-2012, 12:22 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Duxbury
Posts: 652
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Originally Posted by Piscator
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+1
-Andrew |
-Andrew
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12-07-2012, 01:18 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Cumberland, RI
Posts: 2,264
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WTF??? that's insane.
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Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement -- Keith Benning
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12-07-2012, 03:31 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Newtown, CT
Posts: 5,659
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Originally Posted by Duke41
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What kind of a gay blowboat website did you direct us to?  |
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12-07-2012, 09:41 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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Originally Posted by Duke41
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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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12-08-2012, 06:03 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
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Quote:
Originally Posted by numbskull
You pay these people for towing insurance, not stupidity insurance.
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Best line of the week!!! |
No boat, back in the suds.  
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12-08-2012, 09:52 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Lincoln, RI
Posts: 621
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Quote:
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.
Last edited by Roger; 12-08-2012 at 10:00 AM..
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Best regards,
Roger
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12-09-2012, 09:36 AM
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GrandBob
Join Date: Apr 2001
Posts: 3,547
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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.
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12-10-2012, 09:30 AM
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zoom
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Quincy
Posts: 4,145
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MakoMike
What kind of a gay blowboat website did you direct us to? |
That was 15 minutes of my life wasted that I never get back.
Never had an issue with seatow. With the old power plant on back, I needed them on several occassions. |
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Things done at the last possible minute are done with the greatest possible information. Procrastination is, therefore, the most efficient means of doing things.
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12-11-2012, 05:19 PM
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got gas?
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 1,716
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AHAHAH HAHAHAH VAN you are my puppet
15 mins is just the begining.
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12-12-2012, 01:08 PM
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Land OF Forgotten Toys
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Central MA
Posts: 2,309
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Sorry but the blogger sounds like a pretentious self righteous douche.
I have never owned a boat never plan on it but I know what side of a green buoy you pass.
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