Agreed!!!
Years ago a friend and I were fishing along the rocks at Middle Ground Flats near Echo Bay in New Rochelle, NY. For those who don't know its a whole island that comes out of the water at low tide. Well all of a sudden I see a large cuddy cabin boat come right for the middle of the shoal (it was nearly high tide), and my friend and I looked at each other incredulously, thinking maybe we had missed something and were in the wrong place. Well no, we weren't. And soon that boat slowed, then stopped as it bounced off the rocks...
We quickly reeled in our lines and headed along side, and found two kids who couldn't have been older than 12 in the boat, one of them was yelling "Mayday" over the VHF. I quickly asked the other one if there was any water in the cabin, he said no, so I told the other one to get back on the radio and tell the Coast Guard that there were adults with him now and that it was not an emergency. The kids clearly were scared to death by their brush with the rocks, but the boat was allright. They could have started back up and headed into port, but the SeaTow guy was out there before you could blink an eye and immediately hooked them up and towed them in. I could just imagine their father's face when he got the bill, but then again he deserved it - apparently the kids had driven the boat all the way from Greenwich to New Rochelle without really knowing where to go to enter the harbor...
Years ago a friend and I were fishing along the rocks at Middle Ground Flats near Echo Bay in New Rochelle, NY. For those who don't know its a whole island that comes out of the water at low tide. Well all of a sudden I see a large cuddy cabin boat come right for the middle of the shoal (it was nearly high tide), and my friend and I looked at each other incredulously, thinking maybe we had missed something and were in the wrong place. Well no, we weren't. And soon that boat slowed, then stopped as it bounced off the rocks...
We quickly reeled in our lines and headed along side, and found two kids who couldn't have been older than 12 in the boat, one of them was yelling "Mayday" over the VHF. I quickly asked the other one if there was any water in the cabin, he said no, so I told the other one to get back on the radio and tell the Coast Guard that there were adults with him now and that it was not an emergency. The kids clearly were scared to death by their brush with the rocks, but the boat was allright. They could have started back up and headed into port, but the SeaTow guy was out there before you could blink an eye and immediately hooked them up and towed them in. I could just imagine their father's face when he got the bill, but then again he deserved it - apparently the kids had driven the boat all the way from Greenwich to New Rochelle without really knowing where to go to enter the harbor...
