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re: 65' Viking hits platform, Green Jeans to the rescue
Posted on 10/29/13 at 7:47 am to JimmyLoincloth
Posted on 10/29/13 at 7:47 am to JimmyLoincloth
When you run into a stationary object, there is a presumption that you are at fault.
Clearly the captain here failed to maintain a proper lookout.
Clearly the captain here failed to maintain a proper lookout.
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Posted on 10/29/13 at 8:10 am to Contender54
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There are a lot of armchair captains who apparently are "experts" on this.
This ain't the tiger rant bro, hitting a platform is fricking retarded
Posted on 10/29/13 at 8:23 am to Contender54
First of all, how did they hit the drilling rig on top of the platform? Even the top of the tower would likely be at least 30-50 feet below the rig. I'm thinking they hit the platform, not the rig.
Secondly, I've been fishing offshore my entire life.
Hell we typically back down on platforms and catch snapper in a fricken Hatteras 60 all the time. We have never hit the platform. We have never even had a rigger or the top of the tower hit. Literally done it hundreds of times. I can't count how many times we have pulled tuna/billfish off platforms and never once hit the platform. It's not that hard to throttle in and out of gear to hold the boat off the platform while the angler fights the fish. If shite gets dicey, guess what? you pull off of the platform and if the line snaps, so be it. It's just a tuna. We have lost marlin pulling away from the platform, that'll make u sick. But it'll also save you a $2 million boat.
Dude was incompetent and should be fired. No excuse, he hit the platform, and sunk a $2+ million vessel.
Secondly, I've been fishing offshore my entire life.
Hell we typically back down on platforms and catch snapper in a fricken Hatteras 60 all the time. We have never hit the platform. We have never even had a rigger or the top of the tower hit. Literally done it hundreds of times. I can't count how many times we have pulled tuna/billfish off platforms and never once hit the platform. It's not that hard to throttle in and out of gear to hold the boat off the platform while the angler fights the fish. If shite gets dicey, guess what? you pull off of the platform and if the line snaps, so be it. It's just a tuna. We have lost marlin pulling away from the platform, that'll make u sick. But it'll also save you a $2 million boat.
Dude was incompetent and should be fired. No excuse, he hit the platform, and sunk a $2+ million vessel.
Posted on 10/29/13 at 8:25 am to JimmyLoincloth
So did they get the fish?
Posted on 10/29/13 at 8:26 am to TheDrunkenTigah
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So did they get the fish?
no, the tuna got the boat.
Posted on 10/29/13 at 8:42 am to Gulffisherman
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Gulffisherman
I did not sink a 2 million dollar vessel this past weekend. I just quoted what the owner said on The Hull Truth, which is also where I got the picture.
You may be able to find him there.
Posted on 10/29/13 at 8:44 am to 34venture
We know you didn't sink it, you couldn't back it down the ramp much less drive the boat.
Posted on 10/29/13 at 8:47 am to KingRanch
Well, I know who won't be fishing with me anytime soon. 
This post was edited on 10/29/13 at 8:48 am
Posted on 10/29/13 at 8:47 am to 34venture
I would live to hear the conversation going on in that tuna school.
How can you tell if a boat mount is the actual boat or a fiberglass replica?
quote:
"Hey Charley, you aint gonna believe what I got!"
How can you tell if a boat mount is the actual boat or a fiberglass replica?
This post was edited on 10/29/13 at 8:57 am
Posted on 10/29/13 at 8:48 am to 34venture
34V...you missed a great opportunity to troll the frick out of that guy.
Posted on 10/29/13 at 8:50 am to 34venture
Posted on 10/29/13 at 8:58 am to KingRanch
I'll send you pictures.
Posted on 10/29/13 at 9:00 am to 34venture
did that boat not have sky hook? frick.
Posted on 10/29/13 at 9:05 am to 34venture
I knew you would
Posted on 10/29/13 at 9:12 am to 34venture
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My captain is in a tough position. He is a great guy- honest and hardworking. Very capable and having safely navigated this boat well over a thousand miles in the last two months. Tough.
This is the part that gets me. We are not talking about some rich n00b out their being a dipshit!
Posted on 10/29/13 at 9:14 am to Chad504boy
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did that boat not have sky hook? frick.
This is like the 4th or 5th time that joke has failed already in this thread. Give it up.
Posted on 10/29/13 at 9:15 am to Vlad
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This is the part that gets me. We are not talking about some rich n00b out their being a dipshit!
Maybe he should stick to pleasure-cruisin'.
Posted on 10/29/13 at 9:15 am to JimmyLoincloth
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This is like the 4th or 5th time that joke has failed already in this thread.
its a fricking question, not a joke. has it been answered?
Posted on 10/29/13 at 9:18 am to Vlad
I thought it was going to be an inexperience deal too. I've had the boat owner take wheel and he bumped a rig twice and ran aground once pulling into pirates cove. So I figured it was along those lines. But fighting a fish for 20 minutes and drifting into a platform and nobody on the boat saw what was about to happen is mind boggling.
Posted on 10/29/13 at 9:21 am to KingRanch
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