Trawler eats kayak

http://www.yakass.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=327&catid=3&Itemid=50

OUCH!
Glad the guy avoided injury

Scary. Thanks for the post.

There have been a couple times where MB party boats have scared me more than a little. Didn't hear/see them until they were uncomfortably close, and they showed no sign of changing course.

Ben

I bet if he paid the captain of that vessel a visit and beat the holy crap out of him it just might send a message to the rest of the skippers to mind a watchful eye when OTW.

Yikes, that's crazy!  Glad the guy made it through that one.

OMG?!?!?!?  Is that the propeller that caused that???  Sliced right through it like bread!!!

Not to second guess the dude, (since I wasn't there)...

but how does a trawler sneak up on you?  Hard to imagine...

You see the boat / ship a longs ways away and figure they are looking where they are going.  They arrive a lot quicker than expected.  My wife got clipped by a smaller sailboat in Mission bay while in a Hobie Sport.  She pedaled as fast as possible and got a glancing blow.  The skipper was in the back with a locked tiller, not looking where he was going.  He had his head down doing something in the cockpit.  I did not have my VHF or the Lifeguards / CG would have been talking to the "skipper".  Those boats travel faster than you think.  Fishing in my 21' boat off angel Island, I am watching a smaller empty tanker coming down the bay by the San Rafael Br.  Next thing wife yells he is coming straight at us.  We were at least 100 yards outside the channel and he cut the corner.  Plenty of water, but he was outside the shipping channel.  Got the prop tangled in the drift sock, so radioed the ship and they turned. Scary to see a couple hundred foot ship at about 10' distance.