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From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Thu Jan 30 2003 - 18:06:54 EST
In a message dated 1/30/2003 9:08:14 AM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:
> The $99 for unlimited BoatUS towing is the best insurance I carry. Sadly to
> say, those boys have never "made" a dime off of me ;-)
>
> Capt'n Sleepy
> Frozen in Greenwich, CT
>
>
>
Yes, the $99 fee is a bargain. I used their services several times last year.
One tow alone was $700.00. That being said, some of these tow boat drivers
are totally incompetent.
One hotshot driver cost me a 35lb CQR, 50' of chain, damages to the hull, a
mangled Martec prop, & to top it off, when he entered my boat to write up his
report he threw his binder from the companionway onto the chart table where
it landed on my $200. glasses, bending the frames and dislodging a lens.
Another driver wanted to tow me using one tow line attached to one starboard
cleat. This would have put direct stress on one of my stanchions. I refused
to use his tow line and asked that he use a bridle, yoke ("Y" shaped), that I
could attach to starboard & port cleats. He did not have one, so I waited
there over an hour until he had one delivered to us. Then he tried to claim
the time on his bill. I had to let him write it up, but I made notations when
I signed the bill.
I guess the moral of these anecdotes is, it is YOUR boat. YOU are the captain
& although the tow boat drivers are expected to be professional, some of them
should not be on the water. I wish I had had the sense to realize this during
the first incident above.
Fred Fraim
S/V Lupo's Run
Baltimore, Md.
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