Posted on 01/20/2018 8:27:42 AM PST by navysealdad
A salmon fisherman who abandoned ship by leaping into the frigid waters of the Columbia River last summer, an instant before another motorboat crashed into his -- has filed a $372,500 lawsuit against the other driver. Clatsop County sheriff’s deputies accused boat driver Marlin Lee Larsen of several crimes after the 75-year-old told investigators he couldn’t see where he was driving because he was sitting down and the dash of his boat was blocking his view
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Power-boater tourists with more power than brains and common courtesy are common in FL.
I thought, too, if the speed boat was more maneuverable it had a duty to steer around the fishing boat.
I don’t know. I’m so tired of winning, I didn’t even read it. LOL
Thank you. Glad I didn’t have to miss that video. Wow!
Hey, you scratched my anchor!
My Sea Ray had the same thing. I think they called it a bolster?
Liberal logic I guess. Pay more so it will cost less. What am I missing here?
So much for a relaxing day out on the water. Golly!
It’s hard to imagine the driver being THAT careless. He doesn’t even say he was distracted by something. Early stage dementia, perhaps?
The fishing boat apparently being anchored, it wasn’t under way. That put the burden of avoidance on any vessel that was under way and the cruiser really was, at what looks like well over 30 mph. Cruiser’s skipper, he in deep brown smelly stuff, like man emptying out house in Haiti.
That’s why I stay off boats.
Those high bow Columbia river boats tread wicked waters sometimes
Not an island unto thyself are ya?
"Larsen’s son-in-law, who also was on the boat, told investigators that he had warned his father-in-law to pay attention, that he sometimes sees his father-in-law using his cell phone while driving the boat and that his father-in-law had been off-and-on his cell phone the morning of the crash, according to the sheriff’s report."
How it takes two guys to screw up this bad is beyond me. I'm betting they were below deck.
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