04-25-2007, 10:21 AM
[cool][#0000ff]Unless the rangers get some marker buoys out there to warn the power squadron away from the shallows and the hazards there are likely to be some casualties...both human and watercraft.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]During a couple of tubing trips out of the north marina last month I kicked right up onto a couple of solid rock humps about two hundred yards straight out from Eagle Beach. I had been fishing in 8-10 feet of water and my fins kicked the rock at about the same time it registered on my sonar. I looked around and there was a fairly large area that the rock was either protruding or visible at the surface. Even a shallow draft PWC would come to a sudden halt on that stuff.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]That was to the north of the marina channel. To the south, you will run aground on a mud flat unless you continue straight out a long ways before angling south.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Like you say though, too many guys run their craft on nitro testosterone and do not worry about potential consequences. Their motto is "Damn the speed...full torpedoes ahead"...or something like that. As a father of a young daughter you would not put her or anyone else at risk like that, but there are all too many that do. It ain't pretty to see what happens to folks when their boat hits an immovable object at full speed.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Oh well, more food for the catfish and the saber-toothed carp.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]During a couple of tubing trips out of the north marina last month I kicked right up onto a couple of solid rock humps about two hundred yards straight out from Eagle Beach. I had been fishing in 8-10 feet of water and my fins kicked the rock at about the same time it registered on my sonar. I looked around and there was a fairly large area that the rock was either protruding or visible at the surface. Even a shallow draft PWC would come to a sudden halt on that stuff.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]That was to the north of the marina channel. To the south, you will run aground on a mud flat unless you continue straight out a long ways before angling south.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Like you say though, too many guys run their craft on nitro testosterone and do not worry about potential consequences. Their motto is "Damn the speed...full torpedoes ahead"...or something like that. As a father of a young daughter you would not put her or anyone else at risk like that, but there are all too many that do. It ain't pretty to see what happens to folks when their boat hits an immovable object at full speed.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Oh well, more food for the catfish and the saber-toothed carp.[/#0000ff]
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