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Post by jfree on Feb 9, 2011 21:11:46 GMT -8
where you should never have gotten out of bed? Well I did yesterday, our fishing boat beached about 40 miles south of Dutch Harbor. I haven't figured out how to past with this iPod, but if you google Terrigail beached by Unalaska, and got to the patriot link you can see pics. The CG really f'd up, they sat there for hours before finally throwing a towline, then ran over the towline catching it in their propellor then made the crew leave and watched the boat for three hours till it beached. USCG gets an f minus, then they called me to tell me about oil cleanup fines, aaaaarrrrrgggghhhh
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Post by jfree on Feb 10, 2011 0:37:46 GMT -8
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Post by 101ABN on Feb 10, 2011 7:17:33 GMT -8
Bad as that is, thank God no one died.
The sea is, indeed, a harsh mistress.
Is she salvageable/repairable?
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Post by Sailor on Feb 10, 2011 17:53:36 GMT -8
Bad as that is, thank God no one died. The sea is, indeed, a harsh mistress. Is she salvageable/repairable? Exactly the same questions I was going to ask 101. Jfree's description of the incident makes the CG rescue effort sound like amateur hour or something out of a 3 Stooges movie. The Bering Sea is not a piece of water I'd care to take on in anything I've ever sailed in let alone a fishing vessel not much larger than NASSAU's largest personnel launch. I take my hat off to the sailors who choose to do it for a living. Popeye is a wimp in comparison.
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Post by jfree on Feb 15, 2011 21:29:09 GMT -8
It's up to the insurance company now. Have to wait and see. The cg waited so long there was no time for others to help.
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