Yep - during the lone star shootout. Heard that a Viking had a marlin on board ( 103" reportedly) headed to weigh in, captain was in cockpit taking pics of fish, autopilot was driving. Supposed to have hit the shrimper about 30 knots, on the starboard aft quarter. Bent the gunwale on the shrimper, sank the sport fisher.
If thats all true, its kind of sad that making to weigh in in a hurry, without proper lookout on the bridge, was more important.
That's a tragedy on several fronts. Always, always have at least one person on overwatch with autopilot. We have 2 when coming in from an all-nighter. One in overwatch and the other watching the overwatcher to make sure he doesn't doze off. Sure hope no one was hurt.
You think he swapped him some shrimp for beer?
I could say you have to be a idiot to run without someone at the helm, or it was just carelessness on their part. You can pick. Good to hear no one was hurt.
what are the odds on this one even with no one driving ?....but it happens all the time ...even our own Navy does this collision thing with top line state of the art warships and trained crew watching it happen .....
skipper could get a pat on the back for donating to a new public reef....for the snappers of coarse
them POS rust bucket steel hulled shrimp boat are tougher than I previously thought ...now they will be able to upgrade after the settlement couple of years from now...
AP drives a straight line to where your heading is set. You can set a radar alarm but you wouldn’t hear it over the diesels. I can barely hear it on the bridge chugging slow.
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