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Jumptrout51 wrote:WE opted for a well traveled short cut to avoid the rain squall coming at us.
There is a previously unknown object lurking in the short cut.
The precise location of the formerly unknown object will be disclosed upon payment of a need to know fee.
The location of the short cut will be provided at NO CHARGE.

I told ya'll to go to Lanark

How is the repair process moving?

micci_man wrote:That sucks!!

Econfina??

My guess is the shoreline route in front of the lighthouse at St Marks...but then again it's just a guess.

Jumptrout51 wrote:WE opted for a well traveled short cut to avoid the rain squall coming at us.
There is a previously unknown object lurking in the short cut.
The precise location of the formerly unknown object will be disclosed upon payment of a need to know fee.
The location of the short cut will be provided at NO CHARGE.

It's just a guess but I wonder if the "formerly unknown object" is not the old ship wreck (allegedly a former Navy Sub-Tender that sunk about 1928) at the mouth of the St. Marks. It is an understandable navigation error......I know for a fact it has shifted at least 6 inches to the South since I first saw it in 1968. No shame in hitting something that moves around like that.

http://www.stmarksrefuge.org/history/SpanishHole.pdf


On a serious note..... I am happy to hear no one was hurt. I know of a gentleman in a flats skiff that hit that a few years ago and the passenger ended up in the water, but luckily not seriously injured. Boats and propellers can be fixed. Life and limb are much more precious. Glad to hear only pride and sheet metal where injured in this case.

rockyg wrote:It's just a guess but I wonder if the "formerly unknown object" is not the old ship wreck at the mouth of the St. Marks.

I have to come to his defense...
There is no way a guy with his experience and as many hours on the water could hit a well known landmark.
Every pontoon boater has passed that thing at low tide to show it off to his kids.
Heck, I think JT was on that boat before the fire started...

It must have been a new rock pushed up by some strange geological activity.

bman wrote:It must have been a new rock pushed up by some strange geological activity.

Yeah. It's a well known fact that all the new-fangled hydraulic fracking techniques for drilling oil and gas in Pennsylvania and North Dakota etcetera is pushing up rocks all over the Big Bend's inshore waters.

Fishin' is the mission.

rockyg wrote:

Jumptrout51 wrote:WE opted for a well traveled short cut to avoid the rain squall coming at us.
There is a previously unknown object lurking in the short cut.
The precise location of the formerly unknown object will be disclosed upon payment of a need to know fee.
The location of the short cut will be provided at NO CHARGE.

It's just a guess but I wonder if the "formerly unknown object" is not the old ship wreck (allegedly a former Navy Sub-Tender that sunk about 1928) at the mouth of the St. Marks. It is an understandable navigation error......I know for a fact it has shifted at least 6 inches to the South since I first saw it in 1968. No shame in hitting something that moves around like that.

http://www.stmarksrefuge.org/history/SpanishHole.pdf


On a serious note..... I am happy to hear no one was hurt. I know of a gentleman in a flats skiff that hit that a few years ago and the passenger ended up in the water, but luckily not seriously injured. Boats and propellers can be fixed. Life and limb are much more precious. Glad to hear only pride and sheet metal where injured in this case.

I have always wondered why that wreck doesn't have a marker of some kind on it?

1. That was the short cut.
2. That is not what was hit.
3. Come Winter,with low,clear water, I will find it again.
4. In the interim,I will avoid the approximate location.
5. For a nominal fee,I will provide the exact location.

I will give you one bag of old glow gulp to tell what the tide was at the time. I have some old gold redfins with rusty hooks and paint knocked off to tell the approximate area.