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Living on Lake Mac
July 28, 2005
This Woodtv.com story reminds me of an incident this past Friday night. My mother and I came home from Ann Arbor to find a note from my father about the Coast Guard calling back. Weird.
Dad finished mowing the lawn and came upstairs to say hi. He then pointed us to the dock and mentioned he found a boat while he was mowing the lawn. What?
The boat was just bumping up against the dock. Not knowing what was up, he called the Coast Guard (at 6:45 pm). Well, since he was mowing the lawn, my mother and I were given the task of talking to the CG during a few different phone calls. I was told to go through the boat and look for evidence and clues. Well, I found a couple towels, a ton of empty beers and such, some Twizzlers, a money clip, cell phone and some keys. All quite odd. Slightly scary - if it weren’t for the fact that the motor was up and the anchor was out.
Obviously, the CG didn’t think it was a problem, because they didn’t come over to actually look over the boat until about 8:15 pm (they did respond to a reported boat fire about 20 minutes before coming to the house). Once they came, they picked up the cell phone and called the last number to call it (it had 8 missed calls). It turns out that each call was from the boat’s owner.
The owner had failed to properly anchor the boat while getting dinner from his campsite at the state park overflow campground. Personally, I think it was because he was trashed - noting all the empties in the boat.
What really made me curious was the speed at which the CG responded. It took us 45 minutes to even tell them that the motor was up and the anchor down, 45 minutes that a person could have been overboard had we not figured that out. Makes me slightly scared about chances of survival on Lake Mac.
The Petty Officer and I did get to quickly discuss the fireboat situation on Lake Mac. In his opinion, the City of Holland REALLY needs a fireboat, not some wimpy piece of crap like they have now. I’d tend to agree.
Posted by paul at July 28, 2005 07:02 PM
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