Dangerous Weekend Warrior Boating

[JBird]

Being on the water every day you get to see a lot of crazy stuff that people do, especially on summer weekends. People cutting across your bow by a narrow margin while you're underway when it would be safer to cross your stern, children riding on the bow of the boat with their legs dangling over the water as their father speeds along, giant sport boats throwing a massive wake through a dense fleet of smaller boats drifting for fluke. We saw all of that and more yesterday.
Some of it is ignorance of general rules of the road, some of it is stupidity and some of it is moronic arrogance that crosses the line into downright dangerous boating that could get someone killed.
Well, the boat "CAMMY'S DAD" out of our harbor was all of the above yesterday. The operator of that vessel was as close as you can get to a criminal act of negligent seamanship that I've ever seen. He is very lucky nobody was injured.
As we approached the cut in our harbor "CAMMY'S DAD" overtook us from our stern at high speed at an extremley close distance throwing a dangerous wake as he passed between us and some other small boats. He had difficulty controlling his own boat as he passed in front of our bow. It was absolutely ridiculous in it's stupidity and beyond the pale of bad seamanship. All so he could get in front of us and get back to his slip 10 seconds earlier.

I'm calling this guy out publicly for safety reasons.
Be advised, NJFishing community. When you see the roughly 36 foot express sport boat "CAMMY'S DAD" be on guard. The operator of that vessel is a dangerous boater.

[HDMarc]

I wish I had a video of the chaos in the Manasquan River yesterday, was on the dock at Hoffman's waiting to see if anyone caught any makos for the tournament, the railroad bridge closed and it was obvious who the inexperienced boaters were. People need to slow the eff down, there were a lot of close calls and I'm surprised there were no collisions with all the racing around going on waiting for the bridge to reopen.

[TomKaye]

The very reason my brother and I, our last few years of boat ownership were only Weekday boaters and fishermen.
Luckily we could fish a few times a week from April thru November.
It just gets too dangerous with all the crazies out there on summer weekends.

If you tell someone to get their kids' legs in, or slow down or whatever, you're greeted with a one-finger salute.
Glad I'm retired from boat ownership with a-holes like Cammy's Dad out there.

[Fishin Dude]

Yep, a lot of yahoos out there at the helm. Sent times I think " The bigger the boat, the bigger the A$$&%#@" . During the summer months when I seen saftey checks being done in Barnegate Bay or in the Manasquan River, the authorities are always checking the small craft, yet letting larger vessels past by unmolested. I guess you need to be careful about who you board and bust balls so some Rich guy with "connections" doesn't get you transferred from your cool job on the water. I'm sure some of those "Recreational Captains" never bothered to go to the certification class.

With that said, its boats of all sizes acting selfishly out there too, we have all seen it. I wish I could only fish weekdays, but I've got to wait another 6 years until I retire for that, if I don't get fed up and sell the boat before then.

[shrimpman steve]

I wod have met him at his slip and "had a discussion"!

[Capt. Kevin]

I did!!!

[Detour66]

They think a boat is a car and they are driving aggressively in traffic on the GSP. Just plain dumb and dangerous! The CG should get there azz!

[Reel Class]

Originally Posted by JBird

Being on the water every day you get to see a lot of crazy stuff that people do, especially on summer weekends. People cutting across your bow by a narrow margin while you're underway when it would be safer to cross your stern, children riding on the bow of the boat with their legs dangling over the water as their father speeds along, giant sport boats throwing a massive wake through a dense fleet of smaller boats drifting for fluke. We saw all of that and more yesterday.
Some of it is ignorance of general rules of the road, some of it is stupidity and some of it is moronic arrogance that crosses the line into downright dangerous boating that could get someone killed.
Well, the boat "CAMMY'S DAD" out of our harbor was all of the above yesterday. The operator of that vessel was as close as you can get to a criminal act of negligent seamanship that I've ever seen. He is very lucky nobody was injured.
As we approached the cut in our harbor "CAMMY'S DAD" overtook us from our stern at high speed at an extremley close distance throwing a dangerous wake as he passed between us and some other small boats. He had difficulty controlling his own boat as he passed in front of our bow. It was absolutely ridiculous in it's stupidity and beyond the pale of bad seamanship. All so he could get in front of us and get back to his slip 10 seconds earlier.

I'm calling this guy out publicly for safety reasons.
Be advised, NJFishing community. When you see the roughly 36 foot express sport boat "CAMMY'S DAD" be on guard. The operator of that vessel is a dangerous boater.

Instead of posting this here, you should notify Coast Guard Station Sandy Hook about what you witnessed and the apparent danger to your fares. Posting this here does little to no good, and I'm sure if you speak to the commanding officer they can locate the vessel and contact the captain and have a little discussion with him/her about safe boating practices.

Our CG guys do that down here REGULARLY and will follow up if a legit concern is voiced to them. This is their job and this is why the USCG and NJ State Police ENFORCE maritime safety rules!!

If not the USCG, contact the State Police - they will also follow up in a similar fashion.

[Capt Sal]

Originally Posted by Reel Class

Instead of posting this here, you should notify Coast Guard Station Sandy Hook about what you witnessed and the apparent danger to your fares. Posting this here does little to no good, and I'm sure if you speak to the commanding officer they can locate the vessel and contact the captain and have a little discussion with him/her about safe boating practices.

Our CG guys do that down here REGULARLY and will follow up if a legit concern is voiced to them. This is their job and this is why the USCG and NJ State Police ENFORCE maritime safety rules!!

If not the USCG, contact the State Police - they will also follow up in a similar fashion.

Your opininion?????

[JBird]

Please don't assume anything was or wasn't done.

I posted this to publicly shame the captain of "CAMMY'S DAD" and to alert the NJFishing community about this guy's reckless behavior, something a report to the authorities would not do. Thousands of people now know about this knucklehead and can keep an eye out if they see him. That is more than "little to nothing".

Not for nothing, you'd have to have the CG on speed dial to report all of the ridiculous activity on a nice summer weekend. You'd be calling 100 times a day just reporting the boats too close to Earle...