My Marshal Experience At Okeechobee

[Dinky]

WMD – Thank you very much for your response. Clearly your experiences in this matter have all been positive and I can see why you feel the way you do.

After 3 decades of serving our country conducting Search and Rescue (USCG), many of my experiences have been very different. Knowledge and experience regarding how various wind/weather can affect the operating conditions faced by boaters is something I know a bit about. Additionally, I am intimately familiar with the operation of several different types of water craft, high powered outboards included.

As for me having a bias or some hidden agenda – I will tell you that I definitely have an agenda and I make not attempt to hide it what so ever. I’m hoping that this kind of public discussion might help keep safe boat operation a priority and on the minds of every boater. I know firsthand how complacency and / or adrenalin can turn a fun day on the water into something else. I don’t know how many “Safe boaters” (or Parts of them) you’ve put in black bags, but the times I’ve done it – it was no fun.

Stay Safe

A-Jay

With all due respect, A-Jay, your 30 years of experiences in USCG search and rescue, as impressive and commendable as it is, gives you no right to use my posts as a jumping off point for your lectures on boat safety.

And neither do I appreciate the negative tone your original post/lecture attached to our experiences; the implication being we were engaged in some unsafe and ill advised activity.

You have no facts whatsoever to substantiate your claim that all my experiences have been positive. For all you know I could be retired military and a VietNam Veteran with extensive knowledge about S&R under extreme conditions.Please quit patronizing me and other Marshals.

We all get it--you are for safe boating. So are we. You have absolutly no right to imply that we Marshals or the pros we were with last week were guilty of 'complacency and/or [excessive] adrenalin'.

Please get down off of your self-righteous soap box and quit lecturing us like we are a bunch of undisciplined children.

[A-Jay]

With all due respect, A-Jay, your 30 years of experiences in USCG search and rescue, as impressive and commendable as it is, gives you no right to use my posts as a jumping off point for your lectures on boat safety.

And neither do I appreciate the negative tone your original post/lecture attached to our experiences; the implication being we were engaged in some unsafe and ill advised activity.

You have no facts whatsoever to substantiate your claim that all my experiences have been positive. For all you know I could be retired military and a VietNam Veteran with extensive knowledge about S&R under extreme conditions.Please quit patronizing me and other Marshals.

We all get it--you are for safe boating. So are we. You have absolutly no right to imply that we Marshals or the pros we were with last week were guilty of 'complacency and/or [excessive] adrenalin'.

Please get down off of your self-righteous soap box and quit lecturing us like we are a bunch of undisciplined children.

There you go, the perfect response.

And to the OP, I apologize for taking your good natured thread into another direction.

A-Jay

[Dinky]

There you go, the perfect response.

And to the OP, I apologize for taking your good natured thread into another direction.

A-Jay

Speaking for myself, I appreciate the apology and consider all above nothing but H2O under the bridge.

Your considerable experience regarding boat safety in general would certainly be valuable to all of us. May I suggest a separate thread on the subject. I know many of us would benefit.