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Are You Prepared?
huntnphool:
You never heard any mention of a call from them. As soon as they got caught in those swells they should have been on the radio with the coast guard. Like Hawkenbob we visit Rivers Inlet, trailering boats to Port Hardy and launching at first light in the morning. Its critical to have a weather report before making the crossing and knowing its quite possible you have to spend a few extra days on the other side should the weather turn. Personally there is no way in hell I would take my 22' boat out 35 miles off the coast but I know several that do. My VHF is tied in with my GPS so one push of the emergency button and the two act together, the radio sends an emergency signal and the Garmin Sonar/GPS sends the coordinates at the same time so you dont need to stay with the radio. Something like this could have made a world of difference for them :twocents:
Dmanmastertracker:
That's a nice feature. I usually travel with another boat that has the person to person locator (Rhino 530GPS), that also has NOAA updates and marine charts, nice unit. I also carry two handheld VHF's and my fixed -dash unit GPS and VHF. Anytime I don't have a partner boat, I sit on the local marina frequency on one and 16 on the other and never go out in bad weather. I've been in 6-7' swells in our 21' and it scared the *censored* out of me. Won't do it again -if I can help it. We crossed the Marrowstone Point bar going into Port Townsend into a northerly and a huge tide and it was brutal. Found out later boats up to 40' have sunk in bad weather there, you just never know when or where rough weather will hit sometimes.
WDFW-SUX:
You won't catch this homeboy out in a boat in bad weather been there done that and Im done. Small boats off shore is another thing thats out of bounds for me even when the weather is good.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,505172,00.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,504464,00.html
One thing that i dont understand is why they didnt tie themselves to the boat at some point???
huntnphool:
Sounds like they panicked and had dementia
jackelope:
A 21' boat 35 miles out into the gulf of mexico is not a good idea at all.
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