It was a real pleasure to have empty hooks aboard on Sunday afternoon, he is a true sportsman, fisherman and gentleman. He caught on to my way of perching really fast and caught not only the largest perch but also most of the larger fish. Empty Hooks is welcome aboard my boat anytime! As he stated it was a bumpy ride back in to the dock with one incident that will not be soon forgotten.
We were just off of crib reef when we both saw a small boat that looked like a bass boat and probably not over 16 to 17 ft. so with the weather the way it was (steady 3 footers and close together with the wind blowing the tops off of them) I decided to check to make sure they were ok, as we got closer a youngster in the stern (there were 2 youngsters and 2 adults aboard) started waving his/her arms as if they were in distress. I slowed down as much as possible and still maintain control and proceeded to close in on them. When we were a few yards from the boat empty hooks ask if they were ok and they answered in positive. Meanwhile I as the operator failed to watch the GPS and sonar, we found crib reef with the outdrive. We continued in to port with out any sort of problems from the outdrive but when I was docking there is definately some internal damage as it clunks when shifting into and out of gear. Tried to do the right thing and this had to happen, this was a newly purchased boat and I am just sick about it, I have owned her less than a month.