carwreck.com: around Boston harbor...

It's tough to write anything meaningful here when so much goes on that it's next to impossible to really break it all down into a comprehendable post.

This weekend was a long and tough few days. I'll mention of few of the highlights, if you can call them highlights...

I spent 18 hours on the boat on Saturday; 7am to 1am and I was towing much of that time.

I ran out to Provincetown three times to tow broken boats back to the South Shore; twice into Green Harbor and once into Scituate.

I towed a boat into Barnstable Harbor for the first time. Both this tow and another I did into the Cape Cod Canal (Sandwich Marina) were the first times I had been to these places. It's too bad it was at night and I couldn't really see anything.

I found out that my boat only has fuel in the tank for twelve hours of hard towing. It's a good thing I carry extra fuel in gas cans.

I assisted a seventy six foot offshore lobster boat into the Cape Cod Canal. It could only turn its rudder a couple of degrees each way and therefore needed help turning around in the six knot current in order to dock at the Sandwich Marina for repairs.

I got numerous "Yay, Sea Tow!" cheers and received one middle finger. It's the nature of this business to be both loved (when they're broken down and need help) and to be hated (after having to pay a few dollars for service to a stricken boater provided professionally and expeditiously).

And then on the seventh day... he rested.

Somebody you helped gave you the finger?

Do you tell them how much stuff is going to cost before you tow them in?

And when are you going to get Boatwreck.com? :-)

I don't know the person who gave me the hand gesture. They were not someone I had helped.

The costs are cleary explained before any services are rendered. I hand every single customer a rate card which details how everything works.

you mean the finger wasn't a thumbs up!?
sounds like a pretty awesome weekend and that you are starting to get in the groove.