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Boat Aground In Annapolis, MD- Can someone help this man
Boat Aground In Annapolis, MD- Can someone help this man
The article indicated a "marine appraiser" estimated the damage at $4K.I read the comments of the readers on the linked sight and one poster indicated he had first hand knowledge of the parties involved and stated the damage amounted to a scratched or bent bow rail.
Just inexcuseable! It sounds like the sailboat owner is indeed making a diligent effort, and has been responsive to things like the possibility of leaking fuel. But calling the Coast Guard? Repeatedly? Really, don'cha think there are smarter ways to spend their time?Also the injured party had come out on the dock and "yelled " at the grounded vessel's owner on numerous occasions and summonded the coast guard on more han one occasion hampering and delaying the efforts of the stranded vessel's crew/owner to effect the recovery !
What's wrong w/ people ?
Totally agree.This was obviously a misfortunate situation and not an intended action.
And a beautiful craft as well, I hope it gets floated. And it would be correct to see the damaged party made whole again as well, even if he seems to be acting a bit poorly.
just my observation.
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Emmet said he cannot afford to carry insurance.
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"The boat was worthless, you could stick a rattail file through the deck at the mast," Emmet said.
An employee at a local boatyard began fixing the boat up, and Emmet joined the project sometime around 2005. He ended up buying the boat for $1,000 and dedicating himself to fixing it up.
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Orca II is now worth about $500,000, Emmet said.
I am afraid that the uninsured boaters are much more common than we realized, especially there is no requirement by the state. I wonder if there is uninsured boater insurance just like in the automobile side.Maybe you can't insure the boat, but he should be able to purchase liability insurance. If no one is willing to issue him any kind of insurance, then he should take greater precautions than normal to insure that his boat doesn't blow down on anyone else's property. This is sort of a case of someone biting off more than they can chew.
All true. A phone call is best.I seriously doubt that you will be able to find an insurance carrier that does NOT have a 24-hour hotline these days. It's such a highly competitive field that they all want your business--any way they can get it. Look at the way auto insurance has gone in the past 20 years. Two decades ago they all claimed they were loosing money on auto insurance. Today, those same carriers are spending hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars in advertising their car insurance.
Fortunately, I've only run aground (softly) twice in more than 55 years of boating. Both times I was in a well-marked channel, and I was able to extricate myself in just a few minutes.
One of the locations was Chincoteague, VA, where recent storms had caused a sandbar to shift more than 100 feet out into the main channel. The Coast Guard knew about the problem, apologized for the mishap and actually came to my rescue and towed me to deeper water.
The next location was the Havre de Grace, MD channel which is quite narrow when there's a tug pushing a pair of side-by-side barges near the turn at Battery Island. I gave him a wide berth, eased about 50-feet out of the channel near the Sand Island and came to an abrupt halt. As the tug passed his wake actually lifted me off the bottom, which made it easy for me to motor off the soft sand.
Hopefully, since I purchased the Morgan 33 O.I., which only draws 3'-11", groundings will be even less of a problem. But, if it happens again, I have Boat U.S. unlimited towing package, which I hope never to use.
Cheers,
Gary
...which is EXACTLY why I favor mandatory insurance....The ONLY reason I purchase insurance is if I CHOOSE to participate in activities where I must purchase it under threat of arrest...