Always help when you can

aero3113

While we were at lunch today, I was able to help someone out who lost his belt. I saw they had the hatch up and were working. Asked if they needed help. They had a new belt but wasn’t the correct one. I had 2 spares with me and gave him one. He was very grateful and wanted to pay me. I told him my pleasure to help and to pay it forward. Later on he came over to us and thanked us again and handed me a gift certificate for the restaurant we were at. Just thought I would mention that a little help goes a long way and we need to help out our fellow boaters. Too many people out there that would just look the other way.

YYZRC

Agreed. Last weekend, a new boater in a brand new regal 26’ or so was trying to dock and got a rope wrapped around his prop. He didn’t know what to do and was trying to use his bow thruster to save himself. I used my dinghy to push him safely to where another boater was able to cleat a line and get him docked to clear the drive. 10 minutes out of my day and his day wasn’t ruined. 

aero3113

He invited us to meet up with him and his friends whenever we’re at Davis Park Fire Island (his friend has a house there that they spend the summer at). We exchanged numbers, always good to have more boating friends ⚓️.

goalie59

You can never have enough friends and many of my best ones are fellow boaters that I have helped out. An act of kindness goes along way especially in these times. 

Aqua_Aura

You can definitely tell the boaters that are there for pleasure/long outings and the fishermen. Pleasure boaters sem to be very friendly and helpful bad they are great people cause I think they realize we may all need some help at some point on the water. The Columbia river fisherman is like going into battle. Every man for themselves. 

skennelly

@aero3113 - Great story.  Good Job.

Michael T

@Aqua_Aura.....brother I have seen videos of running the Columbia River Bar and it IS every man, woman, child and dog for himself! lol ...... Some amazing footage of goings on in that area.. Special nod to the coasties and SARs who patrol those waters. We have a retired SAR Tech in our family who used to fly out of Comox British Columbia and Trenton, Ontario .... some hair raising stories after a few beers and some coaxing.

Dream_Inn

@aero3113 That is really awesome and that feeling you get when you save someone's boating day feels just as good as if you were the one receiving it!  Half of the time I have spare parts in case anyone needs them.

aero3113

Yes @Dream_Inn !! And to top it off it was his birthday. I feel like I saved the day! LoL

Aqua_Aura

@Michael T. Very calm on the Columbia River Bar today. 

Michael T

@Aqua_Aura..... thanks for the post - BEAUTIFUL! Pictures of boaters, particularly some of the Coast Guard training runs, leave me in awe of the power of the Columbia river as it hits the Pacific. Recently watched a video of the Army Corps Of Engineers building the jetties to enhance the speed of flow of the Columbia so that it would deposit its sediments further out to sea - the side effect was the potential for massive waves at the inlet! Super interesting.

Spyderweb

Good job @aero3113.  It really is a great feeling when you can help someone out like that.  

RiverRat232

Good on you for helping out a fellow boater. Nowadays, too many people would rather video the people and laugh. These are clearly people that measure their self worth in Facebook "likes".