A Lucky Escape For This Boat Today

I towed him upto slip way when I got in.. he was getting thrown all over earlier in day .. was watching him while doing pots

 

Well done mike, sterling job. Drascombe luggers are the best Frying tonight especialy

 

I pulled alongside when mike on saling motor boat had just thrown a line to the small cabin cruiser when he was against the west peir there was a bit of chip on nothing to bad thank The Lord .

I asked mike he was ok towing the small craft back in harbour he said he was fine some of these very small motor boats are smaller than my bath and should be on river or reservoir than on the open sea .

Paul

 

We'll Done to all. Glad no one was hurt or killed. Bit scary that sea at times

 

defo top heavy that time there was some sort of mot for boats going to sea
crew very fortunate the weather was ok

 

It does make you wonder at times?

I can't comment on the case in point, as I wasn't present, but only last summer I was roughly 6/7 miles offshore and moving between marks, when passing a cabin cruiser, I got the two handed distress wave. I backtracked and was told his engine had died and his vhf radio wasn't working! Could I tow them back? The boat had a father of mid to late 40's onboard and an early teens daughter who was quite distressed.

Their boat was about 25ft and mine 17.5! To cut a long story short I did manage to tow them back to the Whitby pontoon, much to the celebration of their immediate family. It took about 2 1/2 hours to do the tow and get back offshore to where I was before, but what really peeved me was I got a thank you from the harbour master, but diddly squat from the boat owner, who was too wrapped up in being re-united with his family. Time and cost is irrelevant under these circumstances, but a 'thank you very much' doesn't cost anything.

I wouldn't say I wouldn't do it again, because of course I would, but it does make you think about the severity of their situation and his apparent lack of appreciation.

 

I know we're talking two different things here, helping someone out and recovering costs, but if they took the tow line isn't it 'salvage'?

 

as i understand it if the boat in trouble chucks you a line and you tow them in you can claim expenses if on the other hand if you chuck the boat in trouble a line and its accepted you can claim savage rights

 

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It would almost be amusing to claim salvage.
Make him think twice about not offering even thanks, let alone the price of fuel (or a beer)!

 

cant believe how some folk are that ungrateful,
if that was me and he had got my daughter back safe into harbour after breaking down at sea i would have given him owt he wanted but would have more than covered his costs at the very least and thanked him profusely.
some folk are just plain ignorant.