The unsinkable legend lived up to its name!!!

So yesterday a friend and I went out and fished off the Marin coast for Salmon and rockfish/lingcod in his 2013 17 foot Montauk. The boat ride out was a little bumping but not all that bad. As the day went on the weather got better. At about 3:30-4:00 we decided to head in. The run to the gate was not bad boat handle everything great! As we were coming up the Golden gate. About a 1/4 mile from the gate. We came off one wave and all we could say was SH#T!!! We came off the wave and submarine the next wave. We looked up and the F#%^ing Stern was under the water. Water coming over the starboard side gunnle. With quick think my buddy fired the motor back up and hit the bulge pump. I jumped to the bow to help with the weight. Then we both started bailing water. After a couple long minutes the stern was out of the water and we were OK!! The wave smashed up the front ice chest and through the lid 30 to 40 yards from the boat. Needles to say if we were in an aluminum boat I don't think things would have turned out like they did. The whaler did amazing being over half full with water. And that is why I am suck a whaler fan! I have a 1973 whaler of my own. Best boats ever built in my opinion.

Wow close call

Sketchy. Had a similar thing happen years ago on a rough Lake Huron - nosed right into the next wave and a wall of water drenched the entire boat. Good to hear that your safe, but how was the bite?

Cheers,
Brad

Thanks we are too! For us the bite was not to good. But for the carter boats running 10-20 ppl where hammering the salmon!

Happened to me my very first Pro/Am Bass Fishing tournament on the Sac River.
Laughed y @ss! off as I was sitting in the boat watching the water on the outside of the boat the same level as the inside of the boat and my PlayMate cooler floating in the boat at my side. 
Glad you guys made it out safe.

Happened to me my very first Pro/Am Bass Fishing tournament on the Sac River.
Laughed y @ss! off as I was sitting in the boat watching the water on the outside of the boat the same level as the inside of the boat and my PlayMate cooler floating in the boat at my side. 
Glad you guys made it out safe.

 The Sac river can get nasty when the tide is going one way and the wind is going the other way. We lost one tackle box. The wave stopes the boat in it tracks! We were laughing about what happen after we got all the water. I'm just glad we were in a whaler. Definitely felt a little better knowing I was in a whaler when the water was well above my Extra tuffs.

You gotta love the Whaler!  That's why the Montauk hull design is one of the longest running in production.  Those boats are amazing!  I had a 1972 Nauset, which was the same hull design, and became what we now know as the Montauk in 1973.  The biggest difference, mine had a hardwood center console made out of teak and mahogany.  I'm glad yours had a bilge pump.  Mine didn't have a bilge pump on it.  I let mine fill up one time while on a lake in a controlled environment, just high enough that it didn't get my battery terminals wet.  I pulled the plug and got that boat up on a plane and all the water would run right out the back.  I had to do it a couple times while crabbing in high seas out in Bodega.  It freaked the newbs out good.     I've submerged the bow and have launched that boat off of waves with no problems.  My biggest fear would be capsizing the boat!

I'm glad things turned out alright!  That has to be the most unpredictable and scariest stretches of water I've ever been through.  Between the current, tide, wind, and the sandbar on the outside, timing is everything.