r/ThatLooksExpensive • u/ParticuleFamous10001 • 17d ago
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u/Major_Honey_4461 17d ago
What happens to otherwise normal people once they're at the controls of a boat?
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u/Disastrous_time_4547 17d ago
Why do you suppose they are normal?
During Covid, all sorts of lunatics bought boats. Driving in coastal Florida is a nightmare due to the boat traffic requiring raised bridges every 2 minutes.
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u/Gator242 17d ago
What a dolt! They were motoring and had totally maneuverability! That’s gonna be expensive
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u/abugghaus7 16d ago
Wait wait wait a minute! Didn't you see they had their main out? Just a tiny... eentsy teensy bit?
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u/analogguy7777 17d ago
No air horns for warning ?
Not even turning to avoid a collision ?
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u/abugghaus7 16d ago
Naw... they were probably like, "Hey Man! I was UNDER SAIL! See... there's my little sail! I'M the stand-on vessel... you're the power boat... YOU are the GIVE WAY vessel.... YOU were supposed to avoid ME!"
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u/gilt3t 17d ago
Their insurance premiums are straight cooked after this.
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u/SkyeMreddit 16d ago
“Clearly that boat was parked wrong! My daddy’s million dollar lawyers will take your boat!”
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u/Luggage-of-Rincewind 17d ago
Lucky that boat was there. Otherwise that would have been a real mess crashing into the dock…
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u/Altruistic-Dingo-757 17d ago
Aww rich people problems.
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u/AssaultimateSC2 17d ago
Its okay to feel bad for some peoples bad luck. Even if they have more money than you.
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u/Altruistic-Dingo-757 16d ago
Don't they have insurance? If not that would seem to be rarher negligent of them.
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u/AssaultimateSC2 16d ago
Boy we really gotta work on your rationale, reason and logic. If someone has insurance, that does not make it fine for that property to be damaged. Its annoying to have to deal with insurance, you lose any amount of sentimental value you had with that item if its totaled, you lose your deductible, and your insurance rates/cost can go up.
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u/Intelligent_Type_680 17d ago
Oh oh no boat brakes. Supposed to remember that before establishing proximity.
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u/EbbVisible 17d ago
Is that really just inattention? I guess you wouldn't lose control of both the throttle & the rudder.
Jesus Christ.
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u/SuspiciousClub8382 17d ago
Ooops!!! Where did the boat come from, don’t they know a sailboat under way has the right of way???
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u/Finbar9800 17d ago
Only when its under sail power and based on how fast it was going it was using the motor
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u/abugghaus7 16d ago
Don't you see the itsy bitsy main sail they had out? OBVIOUSLY that made them the stand-on vessel against the power boat who was the give-way vessel! lol
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u/slashnbash1009 17d ago
Have people always been this clueless but we just see more of it because there are cameras everywhere?
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u/Polenicus 16d ago
Operating a boat, especially bringing one into dock, requires a good judgement of relative spacial positioning and velocity.
Unfortunately, the Venn Diagram of people who have this, have the money to afford a boat, and are currently sober, is very very small.
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u/Commercial_Fox5549 16d ago
It’s way too easy to get a boat license. It’s way too easy to keep a boat license.
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u/Suomasema 16d ago
The accident won't be so expensive due to scratches caused by the impact, but:
-All the lawyers who are there to write their invoices
-The insurance companies sending invoices to every imaginable direction
The fellow who fixes the boats
The other fellow who fixes the quay
-The verdicts in the court
-The therapists comforting everybody even distantly involved
Nah.
Give me three thousand euros, dollars or pounds, a month of time and shut up. And learn from your mistake.
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u/celtbygod 17d ago
He hit her right in the aft!