nodigg
06-02-2007, 07:49 AM
So like Bill says, we launch out of Windsor for an evening warm up cruise Friday night and check the nav lights first thing. Got a Havi virgin on board so we cruise the channel first and take a run at the Turtle which is PACKED so no stopping there. I motor just on plane around the island and past site 6 till we are a mile or so out in the open water and not in the boating lanes. (I thought) Turn off the motor and pop a top on the first cold one, get the tunes going and take a look around to see maybe two or three boats on the lake. Life is good.
I take a look straight ahead and there are red and green lights heading straight for us about a hundred yards dead ahead. What a mooron I'm thinking, another idiot who likes to run close to other boats instead of giving a wide berth. Still dead nuts on our bow and I start to think I better get underway so he can't spray us. I fire up and idle right, he moves with me. I idle left, he moves left. Now what, this guy wants to REALLY get close. 50 yards, 30 yards! WTF! Everybody screaming on my boat, Bill is about to go overboard. This guy is plowing water and his bow is 10-12feet up in the air and headed right up the middle of my boat! 20 yards! I slam reverse and full throttle and the back of the boat lifts up with a roar and the guy cranks hard to starboard and we catch some spray on our port bow.
Everyone is freaked and relieved, Bill is searching for all the expletives he can find and I motor over to the guy who is stopped dead in the water now. Bill wants me to get close enough for him to jump on board, so he can beat the crap out of him, I ask the captain WTF was he trying to do and he mumbles something under his breath about sorry. Some one on our boat says just get away from him but I am circling like a shark trying to get his numbers while bill is clutching my grab rails ready to jump and swim over if he has to to get to this guy. He keeps his numbers hidden from me by turning inside me till someone on board my boat says it looks like he may be holding a gun. The guy is TOTALLY out of it for whatever reason so I back off and he heads off towards the Landing and flips off his lights I guess so we can't see/follow him?
Anyway, we are all fine and we talked it to death over the weekend. Was he getting head? Did she/he duck under the cabin? Loaded? Drunk? Both? STOOPID? We'll never know but I SURE want to know WTF!?
I LOVE boating at night and have NEVER seen or heard anything likes this but then that's how quickly things can happen. That was CLOSE!
I take a look straight ahead and there are red and green lights heading straight for us about a hundred yards dead ahead. What a mooron I'm thinking, another idiot who likes to run close to other boats instead of giving a wide berth. Still dead nuts on our bow and I start to think I better get underway so he can't spray us. I fire up and idle right, he moves with me. I idle left, he moves left. Now what, this guy wants to REALLY get close. 50 yards, 30 yards! WTF! Everybody screaming on my boat, Bill is about to go overboard. This guy is plowing water and his bow is 10-12feet up in the air and headed right up the middle of my boat! 20 yards! I slam reverse and full throttle and the back of the boat lifts up with a roar and the guy cranks hard to starboard and we catch some spray on our port bow.
Everyone is freaked and relieved, Bill is searching for all the expletives he can find and I motor over to the guy who is stopped dead in the water now. Bill wants me to get close enough for him to jump on board, so he can beat the crap out of him, I ask the captain WTF was he trying to do and he mumbles something under his breath about sorry. Some one on our boat says just get away from him but I am circling like a shark trying to get his numbers while bill is clutching my grab rails ready to jump and swim over if he has to to get to this guy. He keeps his numbers hidden from me by turning inside me till someone on board my boat says it looks like he may be holding a gun. The guy is TOTALLY out of it for whatever reason so I back off and he heads off towards the Landing and flips off his lights I guess so we can't see/follow him?
Anyway, we are all fine and we talked it to death over the weekend. Was he getting head? Did she/he duck under the cabin? Loaded? Drunk? Both? STOOPID? We'll never know but I SURE want to know WTF!?
I LOVE boating at night and have NEVER seen or heard anything likes this but then that's how quickly things can happen. That was CLOSE!