Steve,
Don’t scream and don’t assume. I helped him put in a second bilge pump from his old boat this spring. We decided to put it on a different circuit with a separate automatic switch.
The ocean was smooth as glass for miles, the race is like a line where the tide water fills and empties the long island sound. It goes from 300 feet depth to about 120, then back to 200. The rough water is about ¼ mile wide and 10 miles long. I’m guessing that Las Vegas does not have anything like that.
The way we catch Bluefish and Striped Bass is drift fishing, Find the bait fish drift over them with the tide then run back up and do it again. For whatever reason it stalled every time he put it in gear. We drifted into the rough race by accident. I would guess nothing like Murphy’s law ever happens to people in Vegas.
By the way the owner was wearing a auto inflating PFD, mine was close at hand. I have had to wear Kapok life jackets all day before, it is not fun.
I guess you professional boaters in Las Vegas never heard about reading the plate on the boat that has its rating, this one was rated for 175hp but the one on it was a 115 Merc. But you professionals know better than the manufacturers too, right.
Maybe when he gets a new boat you could come on up form Vegas to New England and give us dumb land lubbers some of that wisdom you were born with because you were born on a island.
