"I was run down by a super tanker"!

[pete]

cool old ad..


Wonder how much PBR they had?

[seabob4]

Now where'd that big ol boat come from?

Agreed Pete, many a PBR were tossed back that outing!

[Capt. Bob]

Judging by some of the posts I've read here, they were not the first.

Scott (Gran) will back me up on this, I'm sure.

[gran398]

Judging by some of the posts I've read here, they were not the first.

Scott (Gran) will back me up on this, I'm sure.

Yes I can.

I was ejected from a boat at the outer bar of a nasty inlet at the age of 29 against my will. I was damn near killed.

Fortunately I wasn't, or I wouldn't be the man I used to be today

The gentleman who made the above-referenced historic report: Bill Rhodes. He hailed from a long and illustrious lineage of Rhodes', dating to 1645.

They crossed from England and thence settled in Suffolk, Va, where they became teetotalers, nar-do-wells, horse thieves, and politicians.

Later, they migrated southward into the Carolinas, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana. When Florida was settled, some of them went there.

They basically followed the horse routes.

We have always been equestrians

 

[gran398]

cool old ad..


Wonder how much PBR they had?

Check it out...right before they were sliced by the Titanic....they had TWO fish on....amazing.

Only in an Aquasport. A classic fish raiser, fer sure

[seabob4]

Rhode Island...

Rhodes Scholar...

Rhodesia...

Cecil Rhodes...

I need a beer...

[seabob4]

And the "Praise be to God!" look on the one guy...

I think it was more like "The Minnow" that was looming ever so close...

[gran398]

The published account is hard to believe. This is most likely closer to the truth.

"My buddy and I were eating fried chicken and doing tequila shots while drifting out of Port Everglades in my Aquasport. "Shaft" was playing on the eight track. We thought we heard a loud horn many times, but Shaft, he a bad mo fo...shut your mouth. We figured it was the music.

We were engrossed in puking off one side of the boat when we looked up and saw it....A Supertanker!

I grabbed onto the console railing for all it was worth as her bow wake effortlessly shoved us into the breaking six inch sea.  We fell to the floor, self-bailed, and righted ourselves.

I was amazed to find the only damages were fingernail marks on the windshield, a bent console rail....and shart stains in the cockpit.  

 And a missing half-gallon of Jose Cuervo with the Jose Cuervo missing.

A lesser quality craft would have broken up and sunk. Thank you Aquasport!!"

Sincerely,

Bill Rhodes

[pete]

Too funny Scott,I don't think I would write a letter to Aquasport about how I was too drunk to see a supertanker bearing down on me,reminds me of the PT 109 story!  

[gran398]

Too funny Scott,I don't think I would write a letter to Aquasport about how I was too drunk to see a supertanker bearing down on me,reminds me of the PT 109 story!  

 

Exactly. You can see ships that size from eight miles away and closing.

I like the caption.... "I was run down by a supertanker." Hope no one ever decided to "run down" his wife.

"He stole her from me, and I never seened it coming."

 

[dburr]

Do super tankers even cruise the FL coast?

[Keith Knecht]

I don't know about all of the above but I have had close call involving a tug pushing a barge.

My friend and I were chasing a school of jack that were making the surface of the water boil.  The school went down and popped back up a couple of hundred yards away.  We cranked up and headed straight back into them oblivious to that fact that it was the middle of the ship channel near Port Manatee.  We cast into the school and it was fish on immediately.  As we were struggling to turn those boogers, I got a funny feeling in the back of my neck.  I haddn't heard anything except all of the comotion that the jacks were making.  When I turned, I had to look up to see the bow of the barge that was right on top of us.  Thankfully I was standing right behind the console and the motor fired up on the first crank.  I slammed the throttle into gear and nearly threw my friend out of the boat.  I doubt that the barge missed us by more than 20 feet.  I think my gardian angle was watching over me.  Oh, by the way, there had been no time to reel and we drug the jacks with us and eventually landed both of them.