Genelie
Recognized Leader and Retriver Guru
- City
- Lakeside
- State
- Ca
Well all was good @ 4:00AM Sunday morning, weather report was for flat seas Whhhooo hhoo....BUT they LIED!!!!!!!! it was rough beyond ruff, not so bad the first 20 miles, then everything turn to doo doo. 3-5 foot swells, wind gust at least 15-25 miles Just plain nasty. But we carried on, we had HUGE meter marks, we new the fish were here, but they just did not want to play, we chummed we trolled, we got them to come up to about 30 feet from the surface, but they just did not play with us. Now it is about noon, and we are tried of seeing fish with no action, so we opt to head to new location closer to home. Then all of a sudden my rador / Gps went blank, came back on, then back off. HMMMMmm I assumed a loose connection, because it happened before, but all connections were good. So we knew where we are with charts and experience. We continued, a few miles later............moter dies..and would not start.!!! ( and yes both batteries were fully charged when we left. )We lost power, I switched to the 2nd bank, got her to barely turn over , but no go. okay we are 40 miles out HMMmm. My 2nd in command, wanted to try to pull on the moter manually, I said good luck with that, it is a 4 stroke...so I let him play for awhile. Duh I said as he gives me the look of shame. Okay now it is time to call for help. First I raised a distress flag on top of my radio anntenna, the radio was barely working due to lack of power, I was able to raise the coast guard, bu t we had a hard time communicating due to lack of power. We would have to wait a few minutes between calls. I gave them approx loction based on charts, But they did something COOL, during one of the transmission, ( rememeber these transmissions are garbled due to lack of power) I barely made out "key your mic for 10 seconds"...So I did. Then I heard we got you triangulated..helicopter on its way for verification. ALL RIGHT!! 30 or so minutes later I hear the sound of the Helocopter....then there she was, what a beautifull sight. They stayed around until VESSAL ASSIT showed up 2 hours later. And before you say it..I do have a hand held gps...but I forgot her DUH!!! I will also be getting a hand held radio before next trip out...FOR SURE. Here is a couple of picture of our heros
