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Unread 08-12-2010, 10:52 AM
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WOW...Great pics!!! Thank you for sharing them. Pickle that engine ASAP. From what I can see that hole in the hull looks repairable.. Looks like you didn't loose your ride. Again, so sorry for your loss, glad that it looks like things are coming back together again.



On a different note, if you every have to tow a boat again like that, do not rig it the way yours was rigged. Just putting a line thru the chocks like that is an invitation for injury or death. Rig a towing line like a lasso, put it through the chocks, down around the stern of the boat, up throught the other chock and then tie it off with a bowline. That way all the strain of the tow is on the stern and transom of the boat, not on the front chocks. If they (the chocks) rip out of the fiberglass and the line comes flying at you in the tow boat with the chocks attached they can (and have in previous accidents) become deadly missles. Maybe this isn't the place to talk about it, considering your accident and loss, but the number 2 picture you provided is a great teaching tool of how not to do it. Glad that it safely worked out for you this time.
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