Abused Sea Ray 450EB at the Haulover Inlet (GRAPHIC VIDEO)

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1999 450 Express Bridge, 9’ Achilles dinghy w/15hp Suzuki EFI
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There are several of these videos with boats going in and out of the punishing surf at Haulover Inlet. In this episode a 450 EB that looks very neglected appears. The video seems to focus on the fact that the Sea Ray loses the small dinghy that is poorly secured on the swim platform. The outbound video starts around the two minute mark. Yes the dinghy falls off, but notice the line attached to the stern locker and the force the submerged dinghy is placing on this area. Then skip forward to 8:42, the Sea Ray returns to retrieve the lost tender. Notice what is now missing? The entire stern locker is gone!
 
The Bill Collector said:
You are going to risk your life for dinghy worth less than $2k and no guarantee it will start after the water intrusion... Hard pass.
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And did you see the lasso attempt where they land it on top of the outboard? The guy on the swim platform gives a thumbs up to the drone. Then they try to pull the line in, only to find they have the pull start handle, which extends and rips the cord. Comedy at its best. I just feel sorry for the abused 450 EB. :(
 
Whoa!! Transom locker down!! That looks like a hydraulic platform that became dislodged as well. Why wasn't that dinghy on chocks? The tracks were there to support them & how does he not secure it to the cleats. Total eff up from start to finish. Surprised we didn't see a new member with his first thread titled "In search of stern locker 450 Express Bridge". Hahaha
 
The Bill Collector said:
Thank you and I'm happy you considered my thoughts. The life saved could be yours...
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Well, I have to admit, this same thing happened to me a few years back out in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay in MD. Only, mine was a jet ski. I was on my 48 Sundancer. And... I was all by myself. Dumb, Dumb me jumped in the water (with a life vest), pulled the ski over to the boat. It was absolute hell trying to get the ski back on a hydraulic platform, by myself, in a pitching sea. The waves slammed the Ski and pinched me against that back of the boat several times. I tried one last heroic time and I got the ski to stay on the platform just long enough to get the lift back up. Yes, very stupid, I already know you guys are going be so polite and tell me how stupid it was. But... I'm still here to talk about it. I will definitely think real hard, and I mean real hard before I ever do anything stupid like that again.
 
Morgan Jane said:
Well, I have to admit, this same thing happened to me a few years back out in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay in MD. Only, mine was a jet ski. I was on my 48 Sundancer. And... I was all by myself. Dumb, Dumb me jumped in the water (with a life vest), pulled the ski over to the boat. It was absolute hell trying to get the ski back on a hydraulic platform, by myself, in a pitching sea. The waves slammed the Ski and pinched me against that back of the boat several times. I tried one last heroic time and I got the ski to stay on the platform just long enough to get the lift back up. Yes, very stupid, I already know you guys are going be so polite and tell me how stupid it was. But... I'm still here to talk about it. I will definitely think real hard, and I mean real hard before I ever do anything stupid like that again.
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I don't think it was stupid. If you got a vest and you're relatively smart, it's doable. Not fun, but doable. I wouldn't want to lost an 8k-12k off the back. If you could get it back up, I'd tow it home.
 
If that "captain" had any idea what was in front of him when he left port and still allowed people to bow ride...

We stayed at a Crowne just up the ICW from that inlet a few years back and saw a girl slide from near the cockpit glass to bow when the captain throttled down quickly as he approached a bridge he wasn't sure he could clear.

Boggles the mind....
 
Someone from that area tell me this, where are these people going on days that are that rough?? I watched a ton of Haulover videos and always wondered where 21' open boats are heading once they clear the inlet? Is there an island, sandbank or ???
 
copb8tx said:
Someone from that area tell me this, where are these people going on days that are that rough?? I watched a ton of Haulover videos and always wondered where 21' open boats are heading once they clear the inlet? Is there an island, sandbank or ???
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Before we moved our boating over to the west coast of FL, we kept a boat in a marina 2 miles north of Haulover inlet. We used that inlet anytime we went any where on the outside - which was most of the time. Inlets to the north and south (Ft Lauderdale and Miami) were both at least an hour to get to with no wake areas and bridge openings. Only 10 miles either way, but was always at least an hour away.

When Baker Haulover gets really, really rough - its too rough to be outside in the Atlantic.

Inlets on the east coast can be extremely dangerous if one just blindly wanders into them. One of the major dangers in an inlet is shallow water. When the water is redistributed into large swells/waves and the inlet is shallow the opportunity to "snag" the bottom when in a trough is magnified. For example if you fall back into a trough where it is shallow, your bow is elevated under power and your props hit the sand the tendency is to either take water over the stern further pushing you down or your boat spinning to the side in a broach situation.

If you are going through an inlet, make sure you have access to local knowledge and understand the concept of "riding" the conditions.

All that said, Baker Haulover is narrow and will build short frequency high waves, but it is relatively deep. The danger that exists in other inlets to the north is not as prevalent in this inlet.

The website showing the videos is a money maker for someone. Some portion of these videos are actually people who had no idea how to transit an inlet. I suspect some portion of these are "performance" videos to be content on the website.

Here, hold my beer, lets see if we can get on the Baker Haulover inlet website...
 
northshore said:
If that "captain" had any idea what was in front of him when he left port and still allowed people to bow ride...

We stayed at a Crowne just up the ICW from that inlet a few years back and saw a girl slide from near the cockpit glass to bow when the captain throttled down quickly as he approached a bridge he wasn't sure he could clear.

Boggles the mind....
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I got to agree, Maybe it's just me, But I want everyone on board to be at or behind me when I'm at the helm. I can't tell you how many times on a boat under power, I've seen 10 year old's sitting on the bow with their legs hanging over the front. Really?
 
Morgan Jane said:
I got to agree, Maybe it's just me, But I want everyone on board to be at or behind me when I'm at the helm. I can't tell you how many times on a boat under power, I've seen 10 year old's sitting on the bow with their legs hanging over the front. Really?
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Saw that exact thing go by yesterday with the captain turned around and talking to everyone in the cockpit. If kid went over it would've been over. Very scary.

Another pet peeve is people standing on the swim platform when someone's backing into their slip. An accident waiting to happen. Had a guy actively backing into his slip with music blaring last year with a bunch of drunks on the back of his 45DA. A plastered young girl slipped and fell and was going over but people grabbed her by her bathing suit bottoms. He never knew it happened.
 
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