Slightly off this topic, but still stupid boater . Decades ago boated out of Depot Bay, OR and had some association with the local coasties. There were a couple guys (sport fishers) who liked to go out fish, drink and claim to run out gas for outboards, and call the USCG for a tow in. They were cheap and didn't want to burn their own gas. You can only abuse USCG so much so witnessed said cheapskates get the full safety inspection at the boat ramp by one Rambo USCG's (he eventually went to work for the DEA), while this happening somebody placed a call to the Oregon State Patrol. As the intoxicated boater's drove off from boat ramp area onto HWY 101 into the jurisdiction of OSP in which a DUI was issued. Cost of a DUI can buy a lot gas. We all had a good chuckle at the station.
These boaters must think that the big ships are able to quickly turn and stop like their boats, so they should yield to them like any other boat. I would have moved my boat to the side of the river immediately after seeing the ship come my way. How could people be so stupid ???
5-blasts is "warning danger" and frees the ship from liability under several of the "rules" but what idiots since the pilot of the ship cannot see any of these little boats under him.
5 blasts on the horn means "I don't know what your intentions are and you should change course immediately " most small boat owners are too dumb to know that!
And yet they do the same thing when they are around big trucks in cases like those little boats that Captain should have the right to just to plow right over him since the little boat supposed to give way for the big barge
Not sure this is 100% as it appears..pretty sure those are mooring buoys out there and the freighter is running pretty close to them. If those boats are in a designated mooring zone as it seems, then the freighter is out of position and too close to the edge of the nav channel and it's him that got it wrong. Not the small boats...!!!
You know your an American when, stupid is as stupid does, how in the HELL did these MORON'S pass a boaters test. Do they not know the shipping boat has the right of way. Do you ever wonder why people are killed this way because of massive stupidity??????
Even if the fishing boat skippers know nothing about the rules of the road pertaining to vessels constrained by draft (though of course they should), even plain old common sense should be enough to tell them to stay the heck away from something bearing down on you that's 10,000 times bigger than you! It doesn't take all kinds...there simply are all kinds...
The hog line of the cowlitz mouth fuck that insanity, and the bullshit of fishing the Columbia. So glad I I sold my boat and fish alaska 2 months a year lol why get out of bed if u can't get 4,000 of em and 3k in cash a day. Bristol bay players, try it.
