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[BornAgainBoating]

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[hidel]

I remember that time I ran aground in the Suez Canal. Got that darn ship turned sideways and blocked traffic for over a week. Good times..

[Golfing]

Thanks to videos like this, I learned a lot about boating. I watched lots of these videos before my week boat rental down in Cape Coral last year and this year we went out again with no problem. Anyone who’s never boated and plans on it needs to watch these videos and read these stories. I went out as a very cautious boater.

[Berts_chevys]

The FL keys is probably one of those places where all this tips help immensely!! Which is were most of not all this footage is from lol I ran a small grass flat one time in my little 17 mako chasing a down a buddy in his skiff... I was in an unfamiliar area an let the excitement get the best of me ! I’m way more cautious now and these tips definitely help ! Thanks again looking forward to the anchoring an sand bar edict ! Lots of ppl in SoFlo need that lol

[joemiller]

I was fishing for the first time on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. This area has some markers but mostly you need to navigate by sight as there are many shoals and shallow water areas. We were moving along in 15 to 20 feet when suddenly the depth alarm went off and then the boat bottomed out. We threw the anchor off the aft and was able to pull our boat free as the tide was incoming. But it gave us a greater respect to keep an eye on the water, not just the chart and soundings. #ESeaRider

[jeemonee]

As a kid in the early 80's, our family was stationed in Key West, it was my father's last station before he retired after 20 years of being in the Navy. He always wanted a boat and finally got one, a tiny 18' what looked like a homemade fiberglass cabin boat with a Johnson 90hp, it was sketchy but all we could afford at time and I remember one of our early boating experiences when we decided to go boating at night in what looks like some of the same areas and channels as in the video, Calda channel which we navigated fine in daylight quite a few times to get to the Gulf side, this was in the days before GPS and loran was a luxury. I remember my dad using a spotlight to look for that first marker before getting into the channel and running aground in pitch blackness in sand and grass beds and trying to push the boat to deeper waters for over an hour and being so disoriented that we ended up having to wait for daylight and the tide to rise before we could get ourselves out and back to Sigsbee Marina

[Familylife___]

Back in 2002, while vacationing in St. Pete with my bride, I rented an 18 ft center console boat for a day of fishing. Never operated any boat before but we had a great time. Unfortunately, we stayed out too long. It started getting dark and the sea got very choppy. i remember slamming that boat on the waves and wondering if the hull was gonna crack, and if that was normal... Then I realized that all the inlets looked pretty much the same, especially when it got darker, so I picked ... the wrong one. Lost some time, rushed to get back and got us stuck in the sand about half a mile from the shore. Who knew it could be so shallow so far from the shore? I remember feeling like an idiot, knee-deep in the water pushing the boat in the middle of the sea and wondering if that was normal...

Thankfully, it ended well; I got the boat free and we rode the wake of a large boat to get back safely, but man.... I'll never forget being "captain" for the first time.

[MIUBHI]

Well first off, I’m happy to say it wasn’t me steering the boat! My dad had a 30 proline with twin I/Os, the boat was only about a year old and this was our first time taking it out into the Atlantic out by Morehead City in NC (we are used to the Gulf in NW Florida). We went fishing and when we were coming back in, we had gotten lost and my brother (who was at the helm) saw a 18ish foot boat that looked familiar when we launched so he chased him down not realizing the lead boat cut a marker by a good margin...Well, he hit a sandbar (that was still submerged) doing almost 50mph, dragging us almost 100’ into it before coming to a stop, engines still wide open, forced the stern drives up and spewing water (and sand) pretty high in the air at what we later found out that the tide was going out. My dad had to walk a few hundred yards to shore and ended up returning about 2 hours later in a small dredging boat...$20/foot length of the boat and $10/foot that the boat had to be dredged out. Needless to say, when my dad left, the boat was in a foot of water, when he came back the boat was sitting at a hard angle and there was nothing but sand for almost 150 feet...The tide over there is crazy! Oddly enough my dad still trusted my brother with the boat until what happened when picked it up from the shop after that incident...But that’s another store 😂😂 #E-SeaRider

[foursaintswax]

Every winter I'm in Florida and love it. Water is much better there than here in Rhode Island where its muddy dark all the time. Great video

[lancer]

I was always taught that when in unfamiliar sandy-bottomed shoal water, that you went in very slowly at _low_ tide, so that if you beached, you could float off when the tide came in...

[mikefirman]

I ran aground coming into a dock at my brothers place that I had been at before. My Garmin even had my previous position marked on screen but I didn’t trust it as visually the entrance appears to be on the other side. I was at a crawl and just kissed the shallow rock shelf a couple of times and was able to slip in neutral to minimize prop damage. 😡 All on me. $1500 mistake, props sent out for repair and balance. Thanks for all your video’s. Cheers, Mike
#ESeaRider

[davidtraurig]

I live in Fort Myers Fl. on the southwest gulf. We have a great fishing area known as Pine Island Sound. Anyone that fishes the area knows for sure how much brown ground there is. The water clarity doesn't even compare to the Florida Keys. We have the Caloosahatchee river which runs into the gulf of Mexico. So in turn we get a lot of run off from Lake Okeechobee; of which turns a lot of the fishing waters to a rusty brown color. So as you could expect we have to pay extra attention to the channel markers. The skinny water blends into the channel water. You get the point. I have hit the brown ground twice; one time was a hidden oyster bar i knew nothing about. Scraped the bottom of the boat so bad had to have it skimmed with faring material, sanded and repainted. Luckily there were no holes to fix. Learned my lesson pretty quick. Needless to say we are the captains of our boats and are responsible for all aboard as they expect to be returned to the dock safely. Thank You Dave T.

[jdhart]

The dusky desperato is an amazing boat for the keys, took one out off the reef on a 6 footer day and it handled it like a champ , also plenty of points of contact for when going fast or when the seas get rough.

[paprt]

Great video!!
Local knowledge, if available, is the best way to go. However, these rules are really good to know.
Another thing that needs to be considered is shoaling. We use the GICW all the time, and in certain spots you'll get a surprise! Good thing is its usually all sand.
Cheers

[labernese]

Most fun navigating Malibu Rapids at Princess Louisa Inlet on an ebb in a 48’ converted troller, spinning a 360 and continuing on like you meant it. We get a few adventurous boaters up here from Washington State who’ve been to Jarvis Inlet and they will know the beauty of it

[WhiskeyNovember]

Had a commercial crabbing license for a bit. Was out in the bay tending pots when a storm rolled in. Normally on a big body of water we can just maneuver around the storm. Stay away from it for the most part. Well it started to be all around us and I was in an aluminum boat. Decided it wasnt a good idea to be in an open body of water in an aluminum boat with a giant stainless steel rod pointing up in the sky (winder arm for pulling in the pots) so we headed straight for shore. We beached the boat in the marsh and ran about 100 yards away from it and hunkered down as best we could. The storm had gotten really bad and there was lightning all around us and we were getting soaked from the rain. About 20 minutes goes by and the storm passes and we walk back to the boat and the tide had gone down enough where we could not budge the 24' sea ark out of the mud. Ended up having to walk about 3 miles down the shore through the marsh and then get a ride from a local fisherman in a John boat across the canal at the boat ramp to the truck only to realize that I left my keys to the truck in the boat. Had to have the wife bring me my extra key and then wait about 10 hours to come back at around midnight with a friend's boat and pull it off the beach. Worst part was before we left the boat and accepted our fate and headed for the truck, we had to dump out every bushell basket that was full of crabs... essentially like throwing wads of cash into a fire... #ESeaRider

[Angelblood]

Very nice. I've been wanting to learn more about boating. Your videos are super helpful.

[williamblomdahl]

I live in Virginia Beach on the Lynnhaven River and use these tips all the time. I love watching your channel and you have inspired me to change my steering cable and binnacle cables in my boat. I check the tides all the time because where we keep our 1986 boston whler is based off the tides and channels. I would love to have the #esearider

[gregpopp]

They forgot one of my benchmark statements: NEVER go faster than you want to hit something.

[garebear]

I ran aground briefly (under sail) when taking evasive action in the Lake Havasu City channel that leads to the motel docks and passes under the London Bridge. It kind of surprised me, but I was running my swing keel, drawing 5-ft, 8-inches of depth, so shouldn't have been so surprising. After quickly dropping sail, my motoring attempts to free myself caused confusion for other boaters, but all turned out well, and the whole incident lasted maybe a minute thirty.