Boat Fatality

[TarHeeLBoater]

I did not take the boat out this week-end
we are taking a 3 day camping trip next week end and my honey-do list was getting long. The lakes around here for the most part are very small and gett crowded on the Holidays.
Broke my herat to hear of this

Roxboro, N.C. - Authorities have charged a 33-year-old man in a boat collision that killed a woman Sunday evening on the Mayo Reservoir in Roxboro.

Robert Franklin Gentry drove a ski boat into the back of a pontoon boat, killing the pontoon owner's wife, Tammy Duke, according to North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission officials.

The ski boat went through the pontoon and struck Duke and knocked her into the water just before 10 p.m.

here is a link to the article
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/7700522/

 

[TarHeeLBoater]

leaving the scene and turning him self in 4 hours later makes me thgink he was drinking no excuse. Senseless act at 33 years old he should be old enough to make good choices.This weekend was close to a full moon and the boat had its lights on
You run intoo a boat hear people scream and drive away?? God rest her soul But I hope he feels the guilt for a long long time. I just do not see any exscuse for his actions!!

 

[rnbenton]

I spent Sunday and yesterday anchored out in Rockhouse Creek near Ponce Inlet. I simply could NOT believe some of the things I witnessed boaters doing. There was not a LEO anywhere in sight.

Boats and alcohol is a really REALLY bad mix.

Bob

 

[TarHeeLBoater]

Leos are scarce loacal lakes here must be the cut backs to the park servise depts

 

[PeteMrrs]

We usually do not travel on a holiday week-end, . . . . but being new to the area, we excepted an invitation and followed several other boaters to Bird Island, a barrier island on the southern tip of North Carolina. It's a beautiful island and once we figured out how to anchor in the currents of the Atlantic meeting the ICW all was well and we had a beautiful day.

The return trip home was another story. We had to travel the ICW for about 30 miles back to our marina. It was like New Years eve in NYC. The ICW was filled with boats pulling tubes, people anchoring where-ever they chose, and oh yea . . . the jet ski rental business was doing a booming business.

It was bike week in Myrtle Beach. Not the HD types, but the crotch rocket types. They all decided to leave their bikes alone for the day and take jet skis onto the ICW. Unfortunately they brought their "ninja" attitudes with them onto the water. There was a lot of LE out, but they had their hands full. As they stopped one, six more would go by at WOT.

Most of our boating is done on weekdays and we stay home on week-ends. I knew better, but I didn't listen to myself.