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One guy said that he thought the sailboat changed tack. Broad daylight, Captain was not drinking, etc. It could have been a whole lot worse.įor the life of me, I cannot understand how this happened. So, as far as I know, no serious injuries, but we were so lucky in that respect. I was kind of surprised that only one boater offered assistance. Once we were all safely transferred, the CG actually went back to the charter boat and retrieved our coolers!!ĭNR, Marine Police, Fire Boats, Tow Boats, we had ’em all. I have to admit that the CG did an awesome job. It was kind of dicey at that point.ĬG arrives about 15 minutes later and transfers the sail boaters to another boat, then they start to transfer the six passengers from the charter to another boat. Now I’m at the helm holding this fricking switch down, dangerously close to swamping, and I’m thinking if we swamp, I’m going to be trapped in the cockpit with no way out. The switch set up required that you hold the switch down for the pump to work.

Dockmate bench manual#

Switch to manual mode and it started pumping water overboard. I found the bilge pump switch and turned it on to “auto” but it did not appear to be working. So now we are sitting up on top of the sailboat, with our stern precariously close to being swamped. The guys in the sailboat are shaken up but ok (everyone was shaken up but no panic). Anyway, I turned on the marine radio and Mayday’d. I could not tell what was happening on the sailboat. We did a head count and injury check and nothing serious beyond cuts, scrapes, and bruises. Our captain was kind of dazed, so being an experienced boater, I first told everyone to grab a life vest.

We t-boned a sailboat with two guys in the cockpit.

Suddenly, a guy yells “Watch out!!!” I spun around to look forward and all I saw was white sail through the windshield. I was on a port side bench seat, looking toward the stern. Most of the passengers were hanging out enjoying the ride, and no one was really paying attention the situation on the water. We were underway for about 10 minutes, and I estimate our speed was around 30 knots. It was a brand new dead rise boat, first trip out. We had fished all morning and by noon we headed in. Yesterday, I was passenger on a 34′ fishing charter out the eastern shore MD below the bridge.