Southern Hospitality

[BoHawg]

To the two young guys in aluminum deckovers that passed me on Cypress Lake at about four o'clock today when I was stuck:

OK, I understand, I was alone and didn't realize the black mud was as bad as it was in that spot. OK, maybe I should have been running with a partner, but my friends were busy today.

I don't know where you're from or how you were raised, but where I come from, we were taught to help people, or even just offer to help people who needed it. If you had stopped, my pride would have probably taken over and I'd have told you to go on and have fun and I'd get it eventually. Sure enough after about an hour, I got unstuck.

I remember the design on your rudders and if I ever see you again, I'll remember you. However, if I ever see that you need help, I'll do the right thing and stop. I'll even help you....but after I remind you of today. I can't help it, it's the way I was raised.

 

[c chardt]

I had the same problem a couple of weeks ago this is from another thread

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 7:39 pm Post subject:
Too cold went down south river around 12 or 1 today and saw a boat run up on the dike and then i started seeing duck decoys , a bag, a couple of boxes and then i saw three guys standing on a sand bar with the boat i thought they where holding it up and the pump was pumping water out and rember the boat i saw went right by them on plane and almost sunk them again so me and my buddys stoped and helped them out they said that 3 boats went by and just waved and no one stoped we managed to take the mag apart and spray it with wd40 and got the points dried out and see fired up and they started picking up decoys they had been there for 2 or 3 hours and said when they went out before sun up the fuel line was freezing up.

Well all i can say is that when you run your boat and see people standing in the water and the boat don't go at least if you are not good at fixing at least stop and see if they could use a ride or most of use have a cell phone let them call someone.

also heard about a stuck boat at the ramp and every one standing around and looking but no one helped had to call another boat to come half way across the lake and pull him back in the water. so with that said


just help when you can

 

[bondsman]

i always come to an idle and motion for a thumbs up or a thumbs down even when i see a boat tide off to a tree if it has someone on it and there is no other boat around.i have been stuck many times before and alone and it sucks to work yourself loose alone.i had three airboaters on there way to hunt last time i was stuck stop and tell me how i could move the boat than talked about where they were going to hunt then left never got off there boat so now i try to help when i can.

 

[Ron Miller]

We should all stress these ideas of always checking to see if other boaters need help at all of our meetings . What a PR thing it would be to see some stories in the news about ---Several boaters pass by a stranded boater But they finally got the help they needed when the first Airboat come along..And the Airboater remarked --Why it is in our code of ethics to always help others---

 

[Whitebear]

My crowd used to run the South St. Johns river run over in Brevard years ago. At that time when more than one of us were running together and we rounded a corner and saw another boat, our lead boat would always hold up the number of fingers corresponding to how many boats there were following him in the convoy. The lead boat tends to drown out the following boats and the other person might jump into the river run too quick right behind ya. Maybe it helped and maybe it didnt, well never know, but it always seemed like a good idea. We always waved and gave the other boat a chance to wave back to us or wave us down.

Wonder if the new generation of boaters still does this or something similar today? I'd like to think they do.

Scotty

 

[c chardt]

I still hold up my fingers for how many boats are behind me but not every one dose it came around a corner passed 1 boat then the next corner there was 2 more and then you hope there is enough room to pass on some of these trailes here

 

[marshmaster pat]

Bo - Well I tip my hat to your parents, apparently they were old school and raised you right. When there was a need, you shove off and give assistance.

Don't know of the number of times I have smashed a trail down along another boat with just too little HP to get going or got really muddy pulling another rig out. Not just airboats, but boats of mud flats, trucks out of ditches or vehicles off the beach. Just seems like that is what southern courtesy is all about.

Bo - Hope you do see them in a bind one day. Stop and tell them that you saw them pass and remember them, but you are better than that and going to give them a hand. They will feel like %*#$ but remember your words next time they see someone.

 

[UncleBubba]

Dad andI was out froggin one night and got stuck. We had been workin the boat loose. A airboater came down the creek he came back and helped us. It was nice of him.Even thought we almost had the boat unstuck. But that little help was so nice. Then we spent 2 hours BSin forgot all bout froggin. Never got a name.