What would you do in this situation?

[BillyBob]

Theres a huge!!!!!!!!!difference between intentional and unintentional. Stuff happens, motors blow, heat sensors give up, boats run out of gas, batteries discharge....but boaters don't give up!  If not for them then their partner for the day. I wish I knew who the guy was...If I ever got around him I'd use my 8' flippin stick on his shoulder blades, bet that would get him off the phone.    

[CPT Scrap]

@ warmer, there a few tournament series ive seen that use a draw format.  BFL's in oklahoma do if i recall right, and the ABA does no matter where the tourney is at.

in response to the question, id pry have just walked up from and got on the TM.  If hed ask me why i did that, id say "you seem to have given up, so im goin to run the TM, if there is a problem, then come back up here and run it."  just by the way the question is set up, it seems that there arent any "extenuating circumstances".  If it was batteries or somethin to that effect, it happens, but that boater should be trying his hardest to put his non-boater on the fish.  If i did somethin like that, id expect the non-boater to kick me out the boat.

[jhoffman]

Id make it well known I was jacked.

[teenyweeR]

Been there TWICE!  One was a open tournament and the other was a Redman Tournment on Carlyle Lake IL(IIRC).  On the first time the guy's middle name was Van and he later had some sccess  as a pro.  He tied us up to a stump and and we sat there for the last 2.5 hours throwing to the same spot.

On Carlyle all the guy (a local) wanted to do was sit anchored under a bridge.  That time, in no uncertain terms, I demanded my turn.  In that last 2 hours I caught enough to finish in the top 10.  Turns out he was afraid I would scratch up his new Ranger and I probably did!