Originally Posted by iliveonanisland

Guys the answer I was actually looking for was to slow down. I have two 42’ 40 person passenger boats. One is brand new and just started running about a week ago. A buddy of mine that owned a large yacht repair biz in so fl was staying at my island hotel. He rode my boat back to Cartagena it’s normally 1:45 min trip each way. Anyway it was windy AF and just before you get to Cartagena there is an area that has some serious waves. I was in our old boat a couple months ago (which is currently in the marina having a bunch of hull repairs made. The captain pounded the boat through that area so when we got to Cartagena and as soon as the passengers all left I call him and the mate aside and ripped his azz for treating our equipment like that. A few days later I rode the boat back to the island and he slowed way down from 30mph normal cruise speed to low 20s and it was a nice smooth ride. When we reached the island I took him aside and told him great job that is how we want you to run the boats and treat our equipment. Well the trip my my buddy was a ride from hell. To start with they let 14 passenger sit in the front on the starboard side and had four passengers in the port rear so with the boat sitting at the dock it was listing severely to starboard. Then he ran the snot out of it and was belly flopping it on the waves my buddy could feel the hull twisting and the stringers hating life. I was livid. We have a young guy that worked for the hotel for six years that is a sharp guy very loyal and honest which are rare qualities in Colombia. My partner and I made him part owner of the boat biz because we like and trust him but he has no marine exp or much mechanical aptitude or know how. But thats ok as I have it in spades Anyway I told him what happened he talked for captain and the captain tried to justify that ride. Nope not ok. So the guy took the captains side and said one of the tranq it easy boats was just in the marina for 25k dollars in hull repairs as in he thinks that ok. I’m like wtf. I’ve seen the captain for tranq it easy pass our boat in the rough area beating the living crap out of the boat and passenger F that. I just had a talk with the captain and told him he needs to slow down and if it’s extremely rough to change course so he runs the big waves on a 45 degree angle to not pound the boat thru them. I think I will install GoPro cameras to keep him honest. We want as few blown lower units and no hull damage or lawsuits as that would suck all the profit out of the business.

Originally Posted by Powerquest230

Hmmmph, a captain that wouldn’t address balancing the light load of passengers for their benefit, and then runs the boat in a manner hard on your customers and equipment? I’d be thinking pretty hard about adding “former” to his job title.

Originally Posted by F-2 Speedy

Cool luv the Zoomies

Originally Posted by the deep

Ratman speakin' truth!

Originally Posted by offshoredrillin

Dr Sparky approved lol

Originally Posted by offshoredrillin

id love to next year, wrapping up selling the businesses and will be retiring around march. actually looking at a winter place in Belize. talk to stecz every once in while, JC is working at Shaffiroff... my cell is 410-746-002zero

Originally Posted by iliveonanisland

hey bro you use WhatsApp? It’s huge here in Colombia. It’s a great messaging app you can send photos and vids make calls everything is encrypted end to end. Let me know. If not I’ll give you a regular call. Glad you’re getting ready to retire. Good luck with the sale of your biz brother

Originally Posted by offshoredrillin

id love to next year, wrapping up selling the businesses and will be retiring around march. actually looking at a winter place in Belize. talk to stecz every once in while, JC is working at Shaffiroff... my cell is 410-746-002zero

Originally Posted by frickstyle

ilive -

Are you on Tierra Bomba? Is it friendly (safe) for USA persons to visit there? Worth it? How's the fishing and diving?