Bozeman Bob

^ While I agree with you to a degree, there was no immediate danger in his case, he was not taking on water.. I am sure he could of waited until 3 pm or so when most charters are done.There are paid professionals in the area that handle these incidents and if no one uses them they go away. Sea Tow was founded because the USCG has better things to do than tow people back to port ,but if was a emergency situation they would of stepped in and handled it. Unfortunately in this day and age there is the legal [suing] ramifications added to this topic. The boat your towing cleat pulls out and slingshots back to your boat and hits either the person your towing or a person that went out with you, seriously injuring them. on your boat or vise versa, hitting the guy in the boat being towed. Who is paying for that impending lawsuit. The towed boat ,sinks, hits a log, reef, flips over etc. Now the guy decides it was your fault and you have to PAY for a lawyer to defend any of this. I know I am sounding like a hard ass but this stuff happens all the time. If the OP had kept the point that he had to pay for a tow out of it he might of gotten a better response in his request for volunteers. Which no one has done so far. I wish him luck in that endeavor.

A basic set of hand tools on board goes a long way as well. Every steering system can be disconnected at the Rudder-Outdrive or Outboard motor and then steered by hand at a slow speed. Where there's a will there's a way ,if somewhat prepared.

Sorry to hear you broke down. Not everyone has the time or will to volunteer . My boat insurance has Seatow,etc. maybe look into that. Since no private boats came to your rescue why did you single out WORKING charter boats? We're you in danger of sinking, was night setting in ? Thunderstorms rolling in ? If any of the above I think a charter boat would tell there clients gotta go save this guy and I will refund some of your money. I would also say a majority of fishermen have a kicker or twin engines so there not dependant on someone else rescuing them if something goes wrong. Cost of a used kicker is probably less than the cost of one tow,not to.mention peace of mind when heading out on a big ass lake. I guess I just didn't like the way you singled out Charter guys ,especially since you once served and should know a back up is cheap insurance in more ways than one on Ontario. And no I am not a Charter Captain.

Tell them the Vatican has a wall as does Mexico on there southern border. The wall is for there protection and MAY impede the flood of drugs coming into the USA. As far as Presidents and women don't forget to include Bill Clinton ,Monica and paying off rape lawsuits. Mayb explain how words are not always the same as actions.

Good ,I hope they take NYC with them while there at it.

"He's not my President " Yes he is if, your a citizen of the USA. "Didn't win the popular vote...." need to win the Electoral College to be elected, Just like saying we should of won ,we had more hits than the other team, just didn't get them across home plate." Lost by 3 million votes" how about taking away all the welfare votes in the inner city, you know the people that are afraid all there freebies will be tossed out the window. Along with the fact that he didn't even bother to go to big cities that have been run and ruined by Democrats for 50 years [ Chicago ring a bell ?] NYC and LA come to mind as well... Biggest fish wins the tournament,,,,but but I caught more than the winner,,,suck it up buttercup and read the rules,he won,end of story..

And Obama did what to help keep jobs here and more specifically, as you noted in NYS ? I rolled the dice and went with someone that at least talked about jobs and keeping our money in the USA, never heard the liar talk about that in her speeches although I did hear her call us Deplorable, thank you very much for that pat on the back said the working class people that keep the welfare state alive and well.

You must mean the illustrious/racist "Rev" Al Sharpton ,Jesse Jackson ,BLM,,,,Rod Watson ,Elliah Pitts [from the Buffalo News ] and the likes are crawling out ? Oh that's right those racist have already shown there true colors. Obama showed his anti semitic love with Jerusalem already. I would be more worried about all the criminals he pardoned than a few white supremacist that will always be around, just like the black panthers. Maybe reducing the national debt that Obama rang up, more than all the previous Presidents combined ,or putting some of the 90 million people out of work back in the job force or getting the 6 million or so people that were added to the welfare system in the last 8 years off our back gives me something to think about instead of being a snowflake. "Change any time soon" You mean the stock market going up ? Ford/Carrier not moving to Mexico, the Japanese dude that met with Trump awhile ago and said he was investing 50-100 million or so in some plants here and peoples general upbeat mood about putting us back into 'US'A . etc. etc. Time has already told me what I hoped for! My next boat is going to be named The Trump Train, YES

Not sure of the first year but one of my customers in 1985 or 86 won a Grady White fully decked out ,no truck.