how many of you have fallen overboard while the boat is still traveling along it has happened to my dad once and the boat just kept going till for a mile or so before they had realised he was gone. just come to mind again after the poor guy at mooloolaba
Havent yet mate, i watched my uncle and a mate fall out of a tinny one day. He had a place on the maroochy river and was trying to untangle a tiger shark from the crab pot. Some how the shark was pulled into the boat and they were knocked out. Wasnt real funny at the time but hilarious now. Sorry a bit of track, the boat wasn't running i guess.
En el amor y la guerra, todo hueco es trinchera.
Not exactly fallen but a japanese guy I took out fishing several times ended up slipping over at the end of the ramp twice and upon returning in the evening I tried to explain that when I nudged the boat onto the ramp he should get over the side and hold the boat steady...
Well I heard a splash when I was still 20-30 feet from the ramp and when I nosed up on the ramp and looked back there he was just coming up for air....guess he must have misunderstood....
Not while still travelling along, but while not yet anchored. In prime croc country too. And I hadn't had even one beer yet!!!!
LoL, I had a similar one to disorderly down at Rudy Maas a few years back, had a bloke fish an over nighter with me and he polished off a bottle of Bundy overnight while I fished / slept.
Got back to the ramp in the morning and the boat was a bit crooked on the trailer as we were putting it on, so he walked to the back of the ramp to push the boat and he stepped off the end of the ramp
He went down like a pencil and I reckon coz he was 9/10ths pissed he came back up again and then realised he'd gone under and started coughing and sputtering, then throwing up water etc.
Still had his smoke in his mouth too
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Never fallen overboard yet...touch wood. I'm actually worry about it though as I fish from a 4m open tinny, and I often fish alone. I don't always attach the cut off device around my wrist so if it happens i'd be screwed. Maybe I should start wearing it more often!
funniest one I experienced was a mate of mine trying to hold his 5.5m haines to the jetty at straddie - pissed as a fart (wasn't skipper) ... he was well above oyster covererd rocks.. needless to say the boat drifted further away from the jetty than he could hold and he went straight down in between boat and jetty onto the rocks and got nicely sliced...
a little offtopic but worth sharing!
this is why you use the deadmans lanyard. I always use it when I am solo. Its there for a reason, use it.Originally Posted by hunge
I have fallen out of a boat, but it was a sailing boat when I was hiking (hanging out the side of the boat to keep it level) during a race.. I was a two man boat, so I was never in danger. A sail boat will always turn into the wind if no one is at the helm, so even if I was solo would have been ok.
Not yet.
I did stumble and loose balance whilst standing on my forward casting deck, luckily I fell towards the rear and managed to not go overboard.
Disorderly, I had a similar thing happen. Asked my mate to jump over the bow to stop the boat from hitting bottom on the ramp when we stopped, he lept over about 20 foot from the ramp into 2m of water.
I fish solo a lot and often wonder what my chances are if I were to hit my head on the side of the boat whilst falling into the water,(esp from a raised casting deck) whilst NOT wearing a lifejacket. The block PFD1 are no good for fishing in and not very user friendly once on and in the water, so I bought a jacket style but it's also bulky and uncomfortable to wear while fishing. But a good jacket if you were going to be in the water for more than a few minutes.
To be safe and comfortable for fishing Im considering the jacket style for bar crossing and solo offshore travelling and maybe an auto inflatable for wearing while fishing solo, offshore or inshore. Call me paranoid but Ive got a young family that want me home after every fishing trip.
Andrew
yep beach launch down near third headland midlle of winter freezin cold boat got picked up by a shore dumper after we jumped in as the moter stalled skipper couldnt get it going second one picked the boat right up on its side me and the other guy bailed out eventually got her going it was the coldest run out ive ever been on but first drop got a real nice sambo made everything better
never, and hope to keep it that way. I have had a deckie go over twice in one trip
Any way got 300m up river and i says to old mate, hang on to this log as i check this line, all is good and im talking away, few swear words as line is snagged and i can feel a fish on other end, no response (probable only 60 sec) look up and no Old mate, no noise, no movment nothing
so i wait 10..15...20seconds and i'm now standing with gaff, tourch and getting ready to jump in...very cold....last option
I said what the f&%# are you doing, old mate says its to dark didnt know which was up and kept swiming to the bottom(maybe 3-4m) bloody hell is it that different in NZ
i says well hang on 5 let me get this fish, which i did nice yellow belly and we'll see how you feel. He is now purple and shivering so much my rum was spilling my rumso i says no way back to camp and to the fire for you.
get down stream and just before we are about to touch the bank, 3-4m off, i turn to lift the motor, turn back and guess what...no old mate
Its a good laugh now but i was really worried the first time he was under, could have been caught up on a snag or anything. He didnt get in the boat at night for the rest of the trip.
Cheers
No, but have practiced deliberate man-over-board drills in Kleppers, 5 & 10 man Zods, 10 man ally assault boats, by day & night. Anyone who's never tried to get back into a tinny or small glass boat should try it under controlled conditions. Not as easy as you might think. Not so bad with bigger boats that have aft access or steps / ladders. Not attaching the kill switch lanyard when your solo is tempting fate unreasonably.
Lancair you are far from paranoid.
I was out on a dead flat lake with no wind etc and a mate and his 12 yo boy, who of course I let be at the helm and I stood behind him... anyway he slammed the throttle forward and the boat took off like a greyhound. I went stumbling a$se over head backwards and nearly went over the top of the motor. Always wear a vest, even in the dead calm, the unexpected can happen.
One other time I was trying to climb from a 10' tender into the 34' proper boat with a car battery in my hands - p&ssed as. I remember putting the battery on the transom as I lost balance, and looking at the mooring rope all the way down, and the anchor on the sandy bottom, and swimming back up.... my mate was cacking himself of course.
Don't drink on boats guys.
Reminds me of another thing - I read once that 30% of drowned fishers are found with their pants fly open. Obviously overbalancing? Since then I bought one of those pee bottles from a chemist (actually I stole one) and I use it if peeing on the boat. Feel much comfortabler now.
yeh mate did it the other day actually 4.3m tinnie standin on the front casting deck, old mates driving, having 2 check our pots early to make sure no one else does it 4 us anyway looking 4 sand bars cause it was real shallo.we had to go tite 2 the mangroves 2 get a chanel but the mangroves ended putting a shadoy on the water so i couldnt c anything even a foot deep. hit a lone rock just big enough 2 stop the boat goiang slo as then plop i was straite over the front, cut feet and in croc water tell ya old mate was caking himself and i was bloody cold cause it had 2 b winter.got back in that boat quick i tell ya
Lancair, Also agree with you. I recently bought a GME 406 mhz PLB that is GPS equipped. When I go offshore by myself I will be wearing it on a belt, along with an inflatable jacket I have. The PLB cost about $500, but if ever I need it I will be thinking it's money well spent. I went for GPS equipped as the lat and long is sent within a minute or so after activation. I have a "safety grab bag" kit too, but you may not get a chance to grab it.
Cheers,
Don
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