Glad no one was hurt.
Two of the three types of vessels I least want to be in a crossing situation with. I am also glad no one was hurt.
I am however mystified as to how you ram and sink a vessel with no pollution happening?
the same people who were looking for an oil slick will be the people who assign blame. Should be interesting…
[QUOTE=Traitor Yankee;144752]I am however mystified as to how you ram and sink a vessel with no pollution happening?[/QUOTE]
The same person who reported no pollution was most likely the look out that should have spotted the SEA SHEPHERD!
It’s a 42’ fishing boat not
The picture looks like the fishing boat might have been anchored.
“The Island Class … are equipped with advanced electronics and navigation equipment.”
If only they were equipped with trained and competent crew.
The USCG is a shadow of its former self. Mostly just inexperienced farm boys who see every boat — when they see them at all — as potential terrorists, drug runners, or fisheries violators, and want to point machine guns at them.
[QUOTE=tugsailor;144878]The USCG is a shadow of its former self. Mostly just inexperienced farm boys who see every boat — when they see them at all — as potential terrorists, drug runners, or fisheries violators, and want to point machine guns at them.[/QUOTE]
Inexperienced farm boys?
Farmers know about keeping an eye on the weather.
Growing up on the farm we drove tractors, trucks, Hauled hay wagons, baled hay, heaved hay bales, moved sawdust,manure. In the winter time we cut and hauled wood. There is a thing or two to be learned felling trees.
Machinery has to be maintained and repaired I was probably eight years old the first time I was handed a grease gun. I get mates today that wouldn’t know a grease gun if they tripped over one.
[QUOTE=tugsailor;144878]The USCG is a shadow of its former self. Mostly just inexperienced farm boys who see every boat — when they see them at all — as potential terrorists, drug runners, or fisheries violators, and want to point machine guns at them.[/QUOTE]
A friend is a retired USCG Commander, now 90 years young. He commented one time that when we went in to the service there were 10 people at sea for each person ashore. When he got out, the ratio was reversed.
[QUOTE=tugsailor;144878]The USCG is a shadow of its former self. Mostly just inexperienced farm boys who see every boat — when they see them at all — as potential terrorists, drug runners, or fisheries violators, and want to point machine guns at them.[/QUOTE]
Ive had many encounters with the USCG on the beach and at sea and have always had pleasant exchanges even under less than great circumstances. I highly doubt they just send all the “good ones” to the west coast and north pacific. Dealing with them onboard commercial vessels, they have always conducted themselves professionally, regardless of the age or rank, and ive met A LOT of them. You’ve made a pretty poor statement there and might be singing a different tune if you ever found yourself in a position where you were relying on them. Their job is just as thankless as being a police officer, and I can say ive met good and HORRIBLE police officers, ive yet to meet someone in the coast guard who wasn’t a likeable, professional person.
WHAT?!? Where the FUCK is C.Captain and why hasn’t he LAUNCHED himself off the top rope with his routine vilification of non-commercial maritime entities?
We usually picked the yachts with bikini babes to do boardings on.
I have had a great many encounters with the USCG over a great many years and most were fine. But I have been around long enough to see how the USCG has changed over the years. I’ve also seen a few incompetent Coastie misadventures. Pimply faced teenage USCG wannabe storm troopers that could barely stand up on deck only pointed a machine gun at me once, but that was enough.