atrick
Active Member
- Mar 4, 2017
- 551
- Boat Info
- 1998 400 Searay Sedan Bridge
1995 Searay 290 Sundancer
1990 21 maxum
2001 24' FlotBot Pontoon Boat
- Engines
- Twin 3116 Cats
Twin 4.3 mercrusers
305 chevy with a alpha one drive
Yamaha 90 HP Outboard
Your down on the ohio I'm up the monongahela in lock 3 pool, so I know what these rivers are like, grew up on the mon. Now the allegeheny is a different animal!! Been going down and spending a week up the allegeheny exploring that river the last two years, like to get all the way up to Brown's Landing this summer as him and his grandfather put all my poles in for my docks but with lock 5 and up only open on weekends need two weeks off to do it which is a problem for the wife to get off. I also drowned this april had two boards off my docks working on a float and me, my son and his wife were pushing debris off and I was pull a piece of old dock that floated down and had the hook hocked on it and was pulling up against the current and wasn't watching where I was at on the docks just watching the rope and bent over forward so if the rope slipped I would fall on my butt, but step in the hole where the board was missing went in head first got turned around and open my eyes to see where i was and started kicking but wasn't going so started paddling wiyh my arms and kicking my feet for all I was worth and finally hit surface where my son grabed back of me belt and got me on docks. Water was moving fast and carried my 15 to 20 feet down river just lucky he guessed right. Found out you can't swim very good with work boats jeans and a double flannel shirt, just doesn'y work very well!! Used to laugh at the movies when people fell in the water with clothes on and couldn't swim, now I know why. Good thing I never got scared the whole time was planning my escape route and how to get back on docks if and when I came up.
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