Chicago Yacht Rescue

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• zaverin1 Member Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭

  September 2017

  I assume loss of power cause the situation 

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• Michael T Member Posts: 7,227 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 2017

  BRUTAL! At least if it was a Rinker the hull would be okay! :-) Bloody expensive boat too!

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• F1100 Member Posts: 292 ✭✭✭

  September 2017

  OUCH
  
  

  1993 300 FIESTA VEE TWIN 5.7L ALPHA GEN 2
  

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• rasbury Member Posts: 8,707 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 2017

  Why did the not try to pull the bow towards the waves instead of watch it beat against the side?

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• zaverin1 Member Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭

  September 2017

  That boat is no joke to just handle like that 

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• Dream_Inn Member, Moderator Posts: 7,803 mod

  September 2017

  Crazy! We were in a similar situation a year ago, not quite as bad of course, but it was bad enough that the hardtop was less than a foot of hitting the top if a piling at a wall. There were 3 of us, all inserting doubled up fenders every wave after they popped out. Finally got the first boat the nerve to move (when sunlight appeared, it was most of the night), then us other two were able to move. I had pictures in my mind I exactly this.

  Dream 'Inn III -- 2008 400 Express

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• Handymans342 Member Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 2017

  Diesels would have plowed right out of there. LOL

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• zaverin1 Member Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭

  September 2017

  I bet that thing had diesels bigger then your boat 

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• skennelly Member Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭✭

  September 2017

  Wonder when this was...I heard nothing about it.

  2002 - 270FV Mag 350 B3

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• Black_Diamond Member Posts: 5,439 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 2017

  1 year ago

  Past owner of a 2003 342FV
  PC BYC, Holland, MI

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• raybo3 Administrator Posts: 5,568 admin

  September 2017

  Why were they out in that mess to begin with???????
  
  

  2002 342 Fiesta Vee PC Point Of Pines YC Revere MA. popyc.org     raybo3@live.com

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• Black_Diamond Member Posts: 5,439 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 2017

  Just another day on Lake Michigan.  Weather and lake conditions can change fast.  People get caught in it all the time.  Failure to monitor conditions. 

  Past owner of a 2003 342FV
  PC BYC, Holland, MI

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• skennelly Member Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭✭

  September 2017

  I sit at the dock when small craft advisors are issued and yet I see boats leaving with people on the bow all the time.  Doesn't seem to deter them

  2002 - 270FV Mag 350 B3

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• Michael T Member Posts: 7,227 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 2017

  @skennelly, I did the same thing too and that was with an EC 360 with 8.2 Mags and B lll X drives that weighed almost 9 tons - yet I saw small cruisers going out with IMO too many people on board and kids on the bow rails. There seem to be a lot of people in the "stupid club".

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• raybo3 Administrator Posts: 5,568 admin

  September 2017

  skennelly said:

  I sit at the dock when small craft advisors are issued and yet I see boats leaving with people on the bow all the time.  Doesn't seem to deter them

  That's my point. With all the cell phones and electronics on boat that gives weather forecasts and warnings no body should get stuck in that kind of a mess. People just dont give a rat's a$$ and take too many chances.......... Just say'n.

  2002 342 Fiesta Vee PC Point Of Pines YC Revere MA. popyc.org     raybo3@live.com

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• Black_Diamond Member Posts: 5,439 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 2017

  Wait till Monday here. Forecasting upto 9' waves. Some tool will wander out on their boat or go swimming.  

  Past owner of a 2003 342FV
  PC BYC, Holland, MI

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• skennelly Member Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭✭

  September 2017

  This past week in Chicago they issued a swim ban...so what happens?  Husband and wife decide to go for a dip in the evening.  Wife made it alive...husband did not and I'm not sure they found him yet.

  2002 - 270FV Mag 350 B3

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• Black_Diamond Member Posts: 5,439 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 2017

  Almost every weekend we lose a few.  

  Past owner of a 2003 342FV
  PC BYC, Holland, MI

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• Yachtsman1304 Member Posts: 35 ✭✭

  September 2017

  Chainsaws, power saws, and the Great Lakes.  Three things that I have a very VERY healthy respect for.  This video is perfect example why.
  

  2002 FV 270, Mercruiser Mag 350, Bravo III, Manistee, MI
  

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