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Keeping yourself Honest - what have you encountered?
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<blockquote data-quote="DaveInGA" data-source="post: 287107" data-attributes="member: 166"><p>My brother did that with me in a 14' fiberglass boat when I was a 14 YO teenager and didn't know better. We were supposed to be fishing in the inland water way of NC. Ended up somewhere out in the Atlantic Ocean fishing for black bass beside a commercial "party" boat.</p><p></p><p>Coming back in, we got back into the sound within a mile of the dock and his motor failed and wouldn't start back up, got hauled the rest of the way by the Coast Guard. I noticed when he had his motor off he hadn't been maintaining it. I was only 14, but I had been helping Dad do maintenance on the cars and realized my brother had just really risked my life. </p><p></p><p>From that day on, when my brother called my parents home and asked me to go fishing at the coast, my answer was always: "I'm sorry brother, but I've already got something going on I can't toss aside." I didn't want to die at sea, either through maintenance or being in too small a boat without safety gear and backups.</p><p></p><p>Even to this day, I really prefer to have a couple back up systems in a boat. Being without motorized propulsion on the water a good distance from shore, even if you have a paddle, is for the birds. Any boat bigger than a canoe or kayak is too big to paddle very far.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DaveInGA, post: 287107, member: 166"] My brother did that with me in a 14' fiberglass boat when I was a 14 YO teenager and didn't know better. We were supposed to be fishing in the inland water way of NC. Ended up somewhere out in the Atlantic Ocean fishing for black bass beside a commercial "party" boat. Coming back in, we got back into the sound within a mile of the dock and his motor failed and wouldn't start back up, got hauled the rest of the way by the Coast Guard. I noticed when he had his motor off he hadn't been maintaining it. I was only 14, but I had been helping Dad do maintenance on the cars and realized my brother had just really risked my life. From that day on, when my brother called my parents home and asked me to go fishing at the coast, my answer was always: "I'm sorry brother, but I've already got something going on I can't toss aside." I didn't want to die at sea, either through maintenance or being in too small a boat without safety gear and backups. Even to this day, I really prefer to have a couple back up systems in a boat. Being without motorized propulsion on the water a good distance from shore, even if you have a paddle, is for the birds. Any boat bigger than a canoe or kayak is too big to paddle very far. [/QUOTE]
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