Moriches inlet scare

[theshark516]

I am glad to hear you're all ok, speedy recovery for your brother.

[srfrat]

we saw a boat out there,& were like*** are those guys thinking.Let this be a lesson,could have ended worst,glad it didn't.

[IrishStripes]

holt $%^& man that is scary

[Cascade]

You now are, or should be, a new member of the expirenced boating club. I am glad for you and your brother but it sounds like you never should have gone in the first place. Safety first, live and learn. It sounds like you should get an A in boat handling and keeping your head. Good luck

[Rickman]

Yes, thank him, and thank him daily, cause it was G-D who navigated you to safety.

 

And thats a fact jack!

 

 

TBD

 

 

Amen. Blessings to you.

[scallop2]

I went out the inlet and it was a little scary and thought why isn't any wearing there PFD . AS of Nov. 1 New York law requires one . If you going to fish the Inlet and there are 8' waves outside why would you wear one especially on a outgoing tide ! No one ever drowns with there PFD on !

[audio1fx]

glad all turned out alright, "the positions we will put ourselves in for a dam fish!"

[leg-a-sea]

I used to fish that inlet often with my boat and those breakers could get crazy.. Thank God he is OK...

[mikemontauk]

Weds-Saturday we had some really big surf. With Friday being easily double overhead. Glad to hear your brother is ok.

 

Mike

[vinnyb]

I learned a valuable lesson yesterday and gained a deep respect for the power of mother nature.

 

Please be careful out there. No fish is worth your life, or even a trip to the emergency room.

 

 

I'm glad everything turned out for the best. We put ourselves in a similar situation some years back. Not as bad as yours, but bad enough to scare the crap out of us enough not to do it again. The best you can do is to be thankful, to learn from it & to never put yourself in that situation again.

[L3gend Angler]

Thank GOD you guys are alright. No matter how good of a skipper you are when they call for small craft advisories you heed that warning.

 

I was working on the Flamingo 3 when I was 15 and a well know captain was out, Capt, Al Coley of the Betty W out of SHeepshead Bay.

 

We were fishing way east when we got a call that they were on the fish good over on the shoals at Rockaway.

 

Well we steamed over and we were fishing in 10 to 15' rollers I mean when the boat pitched i could touch the water, but we were slamming them.

 

Now mind you Coley was in a 22' cc or walkaround and fishing with us. (He was a sicko!)

 

I swear 3 drifts into it we were moving to make another drift and Jeff (One Leg Jeff) was first mate and he said Rusty I think they may flip that idiot is taking the wave broadside well we see a close to 18' wave catch them and we don't see them anymore I ran and screemed to Bobby Coley flipped!

 

Now mind you the beach was maybe a few hundred feet away and it was nuts!

 

Well we motored over to them capsized and we got Coleys Brother and son onto the boat, I immediately stripped and wrapped him in my goose down jacket and within 5 minutes of them flipping the CS was there and it was just insane. Now Coleys brothers son was still under the boat, and his pops was hysterical saying my sons drowning OMG please, someone walk over and said to calm down there is a pocket of air under the boat.

 

Well now we have divers in the water and one went under and said the son if alright but he hasn't much time so when the sets calmed down the diver grabbed the kid ans whisked him to the ER.

 

So now we leave and are steaming home, their are people on their knees praying we make it and i HAVE TO ADMIT that I was scared **** as well. The sea grew to about a steady 15' wind against tide and when we made the turn to get past breeze we pitched and I thought we were going to flip but we made it.

 

But it goes to show you that even a 30 year captain can get complacent and thats when **** happens.

 

I swear to GOD that when we hit dock and we were cleaning the cabin from the enormous amount of puke, in the Head I **** you not there was foot prints on the ceiling!

 

I said Jeff stop playing around you did that right and he swore up and down he didn't, I believe him.

 

2 crazy stories!!

[BrianBM]

Scary stuff ... some poor judgment, perhaps, but you and yours were right on one thing: your brother's alive due to a PFD. Good for you both that he wore it.

[johnnybocc]

I took my brother out on the boat yesterday to fish Moriches inlet. We started off drifting in the inlet but as we got closer to the ocean we noticed some birds working the breakers to the west. One boat was safely anchored between the beach and the outer bar, and we decided to toss some plugs/tins into the white water in front of the breakers. I kept the boat running as we drifted west towards the great gun area and many surfcasters lined the beach and seemed to be hooking up with fish.

 

We bobbed up and down with each rolling swell and as we got closer to the bar in front of great gun, I told my brother I was no longer comfortable fishing there and it was time to move. As I put the boat in gear to get out of there, a very large swell came that looked as if it was 8' high. I quickly pointed the bow into it and we came up over the top of it and slammed down the back side of it. Following this wave came an even larger one that crashed over the bow of the boat, soaking us and filling the boat with a few inches of water. I yelled to my brother to hold on and I went full throttle to escape the next wave coming at us. We were riding in between two massive waves, as I headed for the safety of calmer waters by the inlet, when out of the corner of my eye i saw a wall of white water coming at us from the side. We took a direct hit on the side from a wave, the boat went sideways, and my brother was tossed out into the ocean. I was somehow able to hold onto the steering wheel and stay with the boat, not yet realizing I was alone in the boat.

 

I turned around to make sure he was ok and he wasn't there to answer me. Panic immediately struck me as I scanned the water to find him amongst the white water. He bobbed up about 30 yards from the boat and as I tossed him the throwable pfd, I couldn't help notice the water around him was turning red.. he was bleeding badly and I had to do something fast. The pfd caught the wind and landed too far away from him to be of any help. I knew I only had less than a minute before he was sucked into water too dangerous for me to be of any help. I sped over to where he was and got him along the side of the boat, he had no strength to pull himself in. I got him up on the swim platform and dragged him into the boat. He was violently shivering and bleeding badly from the back of the head, I knew I needed to get him to an ambulance fast. Once again I put the boat in gear and headed for the inlet. I called 911 while underway and told them to meet me at the coast guard station, the closest well known landmark I could think of.

 

At the coast guard station I was blowing my air horn and screaming for help. I ran inside and couldn't find anyone. I called 911 to see where they were and ran back to help my brother control the bleeding. The ambulance showed about 10 minutes later and rushed him off to Brookhaven hospital. The coast guard didn't come out until the ambulance arrived. With seventeen stitches in his head and a badly bruised back, he is now at home recovering. We're still not sure what he hit his head on, it all happened too fast. He has no memory of ever falling out of the boat, the last thing he remembered was taking the wave over the bow.

 

My family and I are grateful that he is safe and things did not turn out for the worse. I learned a valuable lesson yesterday and gained a deep respect for the power of mother nature.

 

Please be careful out there. No fish is worth your life, or even a trip to the emergency room.

 

 

 

I'm glad all turned out well for you and your brother. I never fished this area but have heard stories of the seas. If you don't mind sharing this with me, just out of curiousity, what type and size boat were you in?

 

Regards, John

[chrisrub]

I'm glad all turned out well for you and your brother. I never fished this area but have heard stories of the seas. If you don't mind sharing this with me, just out of curiousity, what type and size boat were you in?

 

 

Regards, John

 

I have a 20' Wellcraft V20 (Cuddy cabin style boat).

 

 

Thank you to everyone for your comments and kind words. Everything is getting back to normal and we're deciding to pull the boat a little earlier than usual. I don't think our family can take much more excitement this year!

[wrikerjr]

I am glad everything turned out ok with your brother and I wish him a speedy recovery.

 

Moriches inlet is by definition an unnavigatable inlet, let this be a lesson to everyone to not pust the boundaries of that inlet.