So.....finally, after 30 plus years, 6 boats of all sizes and shapes and a thousand hours at the helm I finally had to make the call to Tow Boat US on Saturday. Took my 37 Silverton out for a quick putter across the bay at close to low tide. Full plane through the Amityville cut and then just slow through east to the gilgo channel.....of which I've done since I was 8...and found out that if you don't pay attention, the bottom will bite you... and it did. I wasn't going fast and felt the vibration right away and pulled into neutral. Then, tried to go forward and reverse (with no throttle) and stall.....yup, stuck hard. Knew I was literally just a few feet from deeper water so tried the old chuck the anchor as far as you can trick but couldn't get it to hook. Thought about waiting for the tide but then decided that I didn't want my new shiny recently fully tuned and balanced props to get all scuffed so made the first call for assistance EVER. They were there in literally minutes, took them seconds to get me into deep water. No issues at all. Still runs as good as the day I put it in. Just figured I'd share. I've bumped just about every square inch of the Great South Bay and have been stuck before but always seemed to work out. Just another experience to chalk up.....
Had to get a tow....(well ungrounding)
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It happens to everyone.
I did the same thing in that area about 4 years ago. Just to show what an idiot I was: A week earlier we grabbed some take out for dinner, jumped on the boat and tied up at Gilgo to enjoy a meal and the sunset. We saw 4 or 5 boats run aground in the space of a few hours. A channel marker had popped over the winter and hadn’t been replaced. Then a week later. I go and run aground in the same spot and had to call Boat US to the rescue.
I did the same thing in that area about 4 years ago. Just to show what an idiot I was: A week earlier we grabbed some take out for dinner, jumped on the boat and tied up at Gilgo to enjoy a meal and the sunset. We saw 4 or 5 boats run aground in the space of a few hours. A channel marker had popped over the winter and hadn’t been replaced. Then a week later. I go and run aground in the same spot and had to call Boat US to the rescue.
Doug, what would you say you did, cut the corner a bit heading into Gilgo?
I believe I've seen where the southern edge of the State Channel sort of juts out all of a sudden in that area. We were going east through the SC last year and saw a guy ahead of us running along the island just fine, then suddenly not fine. In his case he just grazed the bottom and made a hard left and crawled out of it.
I believe I've seen where the southern edge of the State Channel sort of juts out all of a sudden in that area. We were going east through the SC last year and saw a guy ahead of us running along the island just fine, then suddenly not fine. In his case he just grazed the bottom and made a hard left and crawled out of it.
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Isn't that Lyman Cut?