Steve91T
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- Joined
- Sep 12, 2016
- Messages
- 898
- Location
- USA
- Vessel Name
- Abeona
- Vessel Make
- Marine Trader 47’ Sundeck
My first time in a year of owning the boat. We are moving the boat from Myrtle Beach to Willmington and planned the trip with two nights on the hook. We found a really cool anchorage near little creek inlet. It’s a huge, wide open space and as we got close to the anchorage, I dropped my guard and stopped looking at Aqua Maps on my phone. There was a sailboat anchored and I figured I’d just go in behind him, which was a great plan except I cut the corner. All of a sudden my alarm went off and we were in less than 2’ of water. I immediately went to neutral and the wind started taking us right strait towards the grass. I could feel us on the bottom. I didn’t want to risk any damage so I just killed the engines and called Boat Us. Thank god I signed up for towing! 30 minutes later sea tow showed up and a super nice jet skier ran the line over to me. I still can’t beliefs I did that. But, we didn’t hurt anything, waisted only about 45 minutes of our night and I learned a pretty valuable lesson.
But man what a crappy feeling that is!
But man what a crappy feeling that is!
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