When men were real men

[piscator]

Damn, Key Largo to Ft. Lauderdale is about 90 miles, pretty smart boat to get there by itself.

Autopilot and RTCM-enabled chartplotter can almost dock it for you (actually, it can if the helm is sophisticated enough).

And while we're on the subject, my point was that Key West, while a long way from Key Largo and Ft Lauderdale, is a famously shorts-optional sort of place.

[laklak]

True that. Key West is one of my favorite places to visit, but like NYC, I wouldn't want to live there.

I'm wondering how two people managed to fall off a boat at the same time while underway. I've run several scenarios through my head but can't come up with anything that doesn't shout "MORON!"

[piscator]

True that. Key West is one of my favorite places to visit, but like NYC, I wouldn't want to live there.

I'm wondering how two people managed to fall off a boat at the same time while underway. I've run several scenarios through my head but can't come up with anything that doesn't shout "MORON!"

Well, they had time to work out a story...

[piscator]

These guys didn't:

ANCHORAGE -

A Washington father and son face criminal charges, after the father was left stranded on an island during a Father’s Day boating trip near Cordova gone badly wrong, according to Alaska State Troopers.

Cordova police informed troopers Monday that the F/V Chugach was taking on water in the vicinity of the Hawkins Island Cutoff, near Hinchinbrook Island. Troopers later determined that the incident involved two men -- 31-year-old James B. Miller of Spokane, Wash., and his father, 49-year-old James F. Miller of Cashmere, Wash.

In an email, AST spokesperson Beth Ipsen says the two men began Sunday with a celebration of the holiday in Cordova.

“They spent Father’s Day together. This included dinner and drinks on the boat,” Ipsen wrote. “Afterwards, they took the boat out (without permission from the boat owner who is a commercial fisherman).”

After the Coast Guard says the Chugach ran aground at about 4 a.m. Monday near Fish Bay, on the east end of Hinchinbrook Island, Ipsen says the evening culminated in a drunken brawl -- with the elder Miller employing an explosive device usually used to scare predators away from fishing nets.

“At one point he threw what’s called a seal bomb at his son, but it didn’t hit him and landed in the bunk next to him,” Ipsen said.

As the Chugach neared the island, the younger Miller laid down an ultimatum for his father.

“After the altercation, the younger Miller told his dad to get off the boat, which according to Miller he did,” troopers wrote in a dispatch on the incident. “The younger Miller passed out and woke up around (10 a.m) to find the vessel high and dry on a sandbar.”

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