There was a fatal accident Sunday night when a 23' Scout boat crashed into a 36' trawler at11:30pm.
Two in the trawler were asleep and are fine.
One of three in the boat died.
Looks like a Gulfstar to me.
Sure looks like a Prairie 36 or Atlantic 37 (same as mine.)
Another sad situation where alcohol and boating were mixed together and the result was deadly.
Just curious--does FL have a law that requires a mandatory boater safety class?
Prairie 36 or Atlantic 37 depending on the year. Looks more like the Atlantic.Can anyone tell what brand of trawler was involved?
From pic it looks like a GB 36?
Terrible avoidable accident, the operators life will be changed forever.
Any proven facts that can show where it was avoidable so we all can learn????
While not good...the jury/investigation is still out to what actually happened...
Most everything else is speculation...
If it comes back BWI and or/manslaughter...pile on/... till then the participants are innocent till proven guilty.
Questions aren't confrontational any more than news reports are accurate.
Damage (especially one quick internet photo) doesn't prove speed unless you are a trained boat accident investigator who has done the forensic calculations.
Alcohol may have been involved but not necessarily a contributing factor.
Just hoping that people on my jury aren't so quick to decide...just MY thoughts....
This does not require forensic specialist to know a women has been killed and the front of the boat is missing a large part of it to know that they were not traveling at 7 knots. Thus he was at a speed not suitable for the conditions.
So yes tragic and avoidable.
This is a FORUM not a court of law.
I'll go along with "innocent until proven guilty," but I have to say what little evidence we have (admittedly much of it from the notoriously flawed media) doesn't make a good case for the smaller boat.
1) Colliding with an ANCHORED boat.
2) Anchored boat reported showing appropriate lighting.
3) Going fast enough to damage the bow AND kill a passenger.
4) Going that fast late at night.
5) Going that fast in a place that we know, from first-hand reports, was crowded.
6) Sufficient evidence of drinking that police took a blood alcohol level test.
Take all that together with our own personal experiences of how some boaters behave on the water, particularly less experienced small boat operators.
Certainly this is not enough to convict anybody. But I'd be willing to bet a fairly decent sum on the eventual outcome.
This IS a forum, and not a court of law. If anyone has an angle on this that we haven't explored yet, I'd love to hear it. I would really like to be proven wrong on this one.
I have my reasons for being picky about facts...if people want to speculate fine...but don't expect it to go unopposed.