Probably about the scariest moment I have had in a boat is when I was fishing offshore with a buddy from work for the first time. We had left the rig and were about 2 miles from the rig when his motor quit. He is a very good "car" mechanic so I didn't worry at first but then he said he didn't have any tools to work on the motor! I was shocked. Pretty helpless feeling being stranded out in the big "blue"! I have been run out of the water fishing the marsh by lightening but I have never felt more helpless than that moment offshore oh and that was my first trip with him and I have never made another with him. lol