Thread: Wear Your Life jackets fellas

After watching the ABs vs France , the father in law and I went out of the mount for a fish - we dropped a long line and some spot and then went in towards Rabbit for a stray line . We settled in for half an hour with a few other boats around we had a small 1m swell coming in & a light breeze - A boat to our left pulled anchor and started moving - At a glance it looked small and low in the water - A couple of minutes later I hear a Yelp and look over my shoulder to see the same boat flipped up with the Bowe upside down and pointing to the sky - the two occupants flapping about in the water. We got onto the radio and called Coast guard gave them a sit rep and went to offer assistance - Luckily there where a few boats around so there was plenty of help and the situation was under control quickly. The coast guard took about 20min to arrive and sorted it all out

Gives you the shits tho - what seems like a great day on the water with no real risk / winds / massive swells etc - can soon turn pear shape. They had life jackets on and swam to the closest boat - Also makes you think how the situation could have been a whole lot different if you changed a few of these variable's.

A great lesion on wearing your life Jackets Lads