1st post, celebrating 1st day with boat in hand.
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Road King Cole
God
OMG!
Thank goodness your radio was working!
Glad everyone is OK.
(belated welcome to the site).
Thank goodness your radio was working!
Glad everyone is OK.
(belated welcome to the site).
Destroyer
God
I'm speachless.. So sorry for you, but at least you're all ok and that IS the main thing. Hope the boat is salvageable. Underlines my post about having a good radio and a backup. Nothing more important than being able to call for help when it's needed. God bless... Hope all works out ok. Keep us posted!
lumberslinger178
God
wow someone was watching you from above .......damn.....
RWilson2526
God
Wow...we should start a pool for the most resources used to rescue a V-20....I think you got it won for some time!....Glad everything worked out and all is well!
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Thank god for the coast guard, the rescue personnel, and your good wits to make the call for help. Bless you for doing the right thing by having emergency communications equipment and flares onboard. I am sorry to hear about your grounding, but so glad to hear that all will be ok. You know, the kind of boating I do on inland lakes is so easy, I lose track some times of just how challenging that "real" boating on mother ocean or very large lakes can be. Best wishes to you and your crew. You will be so much smarter next time you venture forth.
Thank god for the coast guard, the rescue personnel, and your good wits to make the call for help. Bless you for doing the right thing by having emergency communications equipment and flares onboard. I am sorry to hear about your grounding, but so glad to hear that all will be ok. You know, the kind of boating I do on inland lakes is so easy, I lose track some times of just how challenging that "real" boating on mother ocean or very large lakes can be. Best wishes to you and your crew. You will be so much smarter next time you venture forth.
Destroyer
God
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.
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.
RWilson2526
God
Well thats something you dont see everyday (unless you are Capt Pete) I guess there's more foam in a V-20 than I thought, looked like it was ready to go to the bottom at any second! Glad you got it out of harms way. What do you think your plans are with it? BTW your first post said your dad just gave the boat to you. Is he pissed?
WOW I'm just seeing this, thank God ya'll are ok.
DITTO!
Unsure, Planning to repair, but cost will factor in
The hole punched by first impact, portside bow at waterline (well original waterline) brought in so much negative bouyancy, It may have sunk nose first on the return, I wish I had used the Bow Eye, the one I trailor with but I will HOPE I never have to reconsider doing that again.
The hole punched by first impact, portside bow at waterline (well original waterline) brought in so much negative bouyancy, It may have sunk nose first on the return, I wish I had used the Bow Eye, the one I trailor with but I will HOPE I never have to reconsider doing that again.
Monkey Butler
Senior Member
I feel really bad about your misfortune but as others have said as long as everybody is unhurt.
From your original description I didn't realize that everything went under water. That stinks. I hope you go ahead and repair it and get her back on the water.
From your original description I didn't realize that everything went under water. That stinks. I hope you go ahead and repair it and get her back on the water.
Bow eye would not have done any better for the towing, dmhallene. Just in case you ever have to do a similar tow again, re-read Destroyer's description of how to rig it. Basically a giant loop which goes through the bow chocks on one side, around the stern (and through the transom eyes/hooks if you have them) then back up through the other bow chock and through the loop of a bowline tied just forward of where the line goes through the first bow chock. Instead of all the stress on the chocks (or just the single bow eye), stress is equalized around the entire boat, with the greatest amount of stress on the stern.