HOGGEMIN
09-01-2003, 09:45 PM
After a sucessful day fishing catching 2 silvers in the river while waiting for things to clear up. I could not take it any longer people were hammering fish south of the CR bouy and the ocean was calmer than the river which it was.
I was heading north east towards the Columbia River Bar when my windshield wiper quit working, and there was a lot of spray so I followed a larger fiberglass boat heading towards the bar. I followed in his prop wash for a while when I relized he was heading a little close to the jetty, probably 1,000 feet so i headed out of his prop wash went a ways and took 2 or three 4' breaking swells over my open bow. We took on lots of water and almosed stoped, so I swung us around at full throttle which barly moved us, with all the water in the bow and pump partly out of water then we took one over the srearn. Both bilge pumps were working and I started the kicker to head us out of danger while hailing the Coast guard and giving our Gps position. Now heading SW we were in calmer water and out of danger. Two boats headed towards us and the Charter boat The Katie Marie standed by till the Coast Guard showed up with-in 5 mins of my call by then the water was all out, but I had lost my main moter. A lesson well learned to stay out by the red bouys on my approach, and not to follow other people in un familur areas. Also going to have a bow cover made out of aluminum to cover open bow when going into old blue. I thank God above for not letting me panic and my one crew member panic in this time of dispair. Also I have a full fomed hull to thank for since we had about 6 to 8 inches of water in my boat. Hopfully my moter is not totaled, but the only other causulty was my cellphone so if you read this and I had your phone #'s please email them to me so I can build back up my cellphone phone book.
I was heading north east towards the Columbia River Bar when my windshield wiper quit working, and there was a lot of spray so I followed a larger fiberglass boat heading towards the bar. I followed in his prop wash for a while when I relized he was heading a little close to the jetty, probably 1,000 feet so i headed out of his prop wash went a ways and took 2 or three 4' breaking swells over my open bow. We took on lots of water and almosed stoped, so I swung us around at full throttle which barly moved us, with all the water in the bow and pump partly out of water then we took one over the srearn. Both bilge pumps were working and I started the kicker to head us out of danger while hailing the Coast guard and giving our Gps position. Now heading SW we were in calmer water and out of danger. Two boats headed towards us and the Charter boat The Katie Marie standed by till the Coast Guard showed up with-in 5 mins of my call by then the water was all out, but I had lost my main moter. A lesson well learned to stay out by the red bouys on my approach, and not to follow other people in un familur areas. Also going to have a bow cover made out of aluminum to cover open bow when going into old blue. I thank God above for not letting me panic and my one crew member panic in this time of dispair. Also I have a full fomed hull to thank for since we had about 6 to 8 inches of water in my boat. Hopfully my moter is not totaled, but the only other causulty was my cellphone so if you read this and I had your phone #'s please email them to me so I can build back up my cellphone phone book.