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Water Cop explains his job.

by Douglas Gould on September 21, 2011

Fairfield is in Connecticut, which is pretty far from Orange Co California…

“We tow 40-45 boats during the boating season, for multiple reasons… out of gas, dead battery, prop hit the rocks, motor is not working properly… That’s the bulk of our existance, really, is doing boat tows.”

Gosh, I think he pretty well covered it. No further comments from me.

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Trained boats?

by Douglas Gould on September 16, 2011

Ad in SoCal The Log newspaper.

 

The boats are specially trained?

 

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“A falling tide grounds all boats.”

Tina Cardone wrote a nice editorial for the CPORT newsletter, copied here: Lesson from the dawn of our industry: it’s about the money. Ronald Reagan’s administration asked the USCG to accomplish two things. First, privatize when possible. Second, find more funding for drug interdiction. The USCG’s answer created the marine assistance industry, and the federal [...]

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August 7, 2011 Read the full article →

TWI: towing while intoxicated.

Really not the kind of story we want to see. Tow boat captain rescued stranded sailors, then took them on drunken boat ride. A drunken tow boat captain was busted after turning a rescue mission into a booze cruise, driving in circles until he ran out of gas, authorities charged. While RRR doesn’t like to [...]

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June 22, 2011 Read the full article →

Panbo likes Boat/US Towing app

Panbo: The Marine Electronics Weblog: BoatUS towing app, & the iPad Grip. The magic was that when a BoatUS towing dispatcher took the call in Virginia, he already had my contact information and location on his screen.

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April 16, 2011 Read the full article →

Burning fuel or profits?

Responding to last week’s post [You want fries with that?], a reader pointed out that the memberships have gone up in the past few years, to which I say “yeah, a little.” Maybe the guys up in corporate are reading my blog? I’ve only been harping on this topic for since 2007. To be sure, [...]

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April 12, 2011 Read the full article →

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