Thread: Please be careful on the water - boat accidents

Originally Posted by Grainraiser

Yep they have a different mindset than us. I bought a Corvette when I was 54. The very first question young people ask me is how fast will she go. I tell them 160 mph but I have never driven it that fast. They then wonder why did I buy it in the first place. I have zero desire to drive that fast and if I did it would be on a track not a public road.

Yes sir, I tune 65 next month Good Lord Willing.
But I definitely remember being young. But when it came to fishing it was as it is today. To take what is given and get away out in nature.
Some days is as fast as you throw it in, some days is work at it. But like I tell folks when I am fishing the world stops turning as far as I am concerned. Me and the fish are as one.
Heck I can set and watch a blue herring catch fish. If I could change a few things. Stop the invention on Seedoo’s, no boat motors over a 35 hp and load radios. Ha ha! We were all young once.


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Originally Posted by Grainraiser

Yep they have a different mindset than us. I bought a Corvette when I was 54. The very first question young people ask me is how fast will she go. I tell them 160 mph but I have never driven it that fast. They then wonder why did I buy it in the first place. I have zero desire to drive that fast and if I did it would be on a track not a public road.

Yep, young minds work different, they don't have decades of life's experiences.

I'm a gear head, always have been and most likely always will be. Over the years I've just about always had a hot rod of some sort. When I was young, I pulled a lot of stupid stunts with cars, it's only by the grace of God that I never hurt anyone. Many years ago, someone told me that the good Lord looks out for fools and small children, I wasn't a small child. LOL

My current hot rod will high 9's at a tick over 135 mph in the quarter mile. If you get stupid with it on the street you can get in trouble in a hurry. Several times guys have wanted to race this on the street, I always tell them I'll meet them at the drag strip.

At 64 I still love going fast, it just tempered with years of experience now.

Originally Posted by silverroach

Yes sir, I tune 65 next month Good Lord Willing.
But I definitely remember being young. But when it came to fishing it was as it is today. To take what is given and get away out in nature.
Some days is as fast as you throw it in, some days is work at it. But like I tell folks when I am fishing the world stops turning as far as I am concerned. Me and the fish are as one.
Heck I can set and watch a blue herring catch fish. If I could change a few things. Stop the invention on Seedoo’s, no boat motors over a 35 hp and load radios. Ha ha! We were all young once.


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I am older than you, and have a 75 Stinger on my 1542 Express river boat .... but I only go fast when I need to. ... life is too short lo lollygag around!

Originally Posted by ACAMS

I am older than you, and have a 75 Stinger on my 1542 Express river boat .... but I only go fast when I need to. ... life is too short lo lollygag around!

Yep, I fish rivers mainly big and small in Mississippi and Alabama. I run two boats. One fifteen and a half foot with 25 hp. And a 19.5 footer with a 115 on it. Just depends on the size river or where I am trying to get into.
Spend most of my time in the fifteen footer. And at times weather can dictate what I go in too. You can get in trouble pretty quickly if you’re not careful. In years past, I bass tournament fished road with partners a lot faster than I wanted to go in a boat. Especially on some of these large river fed lakes.


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Today, I got lucky that I saw a bird sitting on a stump (or a branch of a log) that happens to stick up between several sets of track on my Navi that I’ve run by outside of Lost Rabbit on Ross Barnett Reservoir, and I definitely slowed down to mark it as a hazard (and named STUMP) so that I know how to avoid it.


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Originally Posted by silverroach

Amen, to begin careful. A bass tournament angler friend and I were seeing these reports yesterday also.
He has an app that reports boating incidents as they are reported. He stated that they are occurring way more than usual.
He told me two weeks ago he was pleasure fishing with his wife but the lake in Alabama he was fishing was holding a tournament in which the boats had a judge in each boat. They saw one of the anglers that was in the tournament run between the shoreline and my friend and his wife fishing and he was disqualified from the tournament for the unsafe act.
But we can all expect to get checked by game wardens more often especially if folks are becoming less safe on the water. As it should be. Remember respect others and be safe.


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That’s wild! But good!
What app does your buddy use?


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Originally Posted by justinp61

It's sad to read stuff like this. Fast boats are like fast cars, just because you can afford one doesn't mean you have the skill to drive it to its potential.

No fast boats aren't like cars, CARS HAVE BRAKES, BOATS DON'T and it seems to me that a lot of boaters forget that fact.

I followed the tragedy on the web and to me it all seemed preventable. Sad situation all around. Prayers for the families