Posted on 03/02/2009 12:06:36 PM PST by Reagan69
So would that be NE Ohio? If so, that’s probably not far from my old stomping grounds.
I was between 8 or 10 years old.
I have to confess that we sometimes did incredibly stupid things. In the winter my sister and I would go out on the lake to check out the frozen water spouts? Water would sometimes come out of them like a volcano. Extremely stupid.
OMG!!! I know where that thinking comes from...Not sure if it’s a Midwestern tradition or what? For us, it was a family tradition to talk the local neighbor farmer into cutting a 50 gallon drum in half so we could make a half ass boat and sail it down the creek to the mouth of Lake Erie and proceed to ruin our perfect Easter Sunday clothing...
Click the link below, the pink A is where Newport Oh is. See Highway 77. Pull the map straight down, til 77 takes you to Cleveland, then look left, near the number 2 is Avon Lake and Lorain. I would guess its about 100 miles between Newport and Sheffield. The map key is 10 miles per inch.
I wonder how long he held or acquired that optimal position with 3 other very tough guys fighting from their survival?
Assuming 4 guys still on the craft, how would ‘you’ manage a survival? [and with 3 big, possibly roid-minded football players?]
I thought about this; and it is tough without rope or
floatation devices.
I agree with other posters that there is no way 13 people could have a comfortable ride on this boat (as per the manufacture claim). It already looks like it would be crowded with just 4 people, especially 4 big football players.
In the pictures I saw of him, he was wearing a dark blue outfit with USCG on it.
See my post 87. That was a cut and paste off of the NOAA website. If he listened to his VHF for weather, that is to the word of what he heard. 3 to 5 is marginal in that boat, but doable, and doable safely in some 21 footers, even if you have to come back in somewhere other than where your truck and trailer are. My guess, and I heard he had been out a week earlier, he had a nice catch of grouper/snapper (that is about all there is this time of year in that neck of the woods), and wanted a repeat. IF the weather played out as forecast, it probably got to 3 to 6 out of the south...anyway I'm thinking, they all went to the same side of the boat all at once, like a nice fish or something, Or,some sorry a$$ helmsmanship in marginal conditions for that craft. The really "big" weather didn't come until after the good lord was looking at the bottom job.
I saw the pictures. Only one guy could sit on the overturned boat and stay out of the water. All local power squadrins, Coast Guard classes and boat companies should show these pics to anyone buying a boat near the ocean.
These guys screwed up big time. A decent VHF radio has a pinger that will send out emergency GPS fix to the Coasties is not that expensive. A survival raft for 6 with a covered to is $1300 - is your life worth that much? An auto pinger that will flaot is the same price
You never take a 21 ft single engine boat 35 miles out. You are asking to die. Very sad but very stupid too.
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