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Old 02-03-2009, 08:52 AM
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Default Re: Careless People

During the spring kingfish/king mackeral run, the area off Juno and Jupiter turns into a floating city - has for 25 years. With my old 25 Mako, I used to anchor in 120' using 275-300' of anchor line. One evening, I had no less than four boats foul my anchor line, which you had to approach within a boat length to do. I called the MP on the last guy, because he severed my 3/4" line after running over it with his inboard Fish Nautique and getting seriously fouled. Upon getting free, he flipped me the finger and boated away. I was in the company of 2 other boats, one of which had dive gear on board, so we were able to recover the anchor and line.

With the report from the Marine Patrol in hand, I filed in small claims court and got the $250 for a new 600' spool of anchor line. (20 yrs ago) But without witnesses from other boats, I'd have never recovered that money.

BTW, I didn't actually buy new anchor line, I just spliced the old one
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