I spent 8 months based out of Fort Pierce after the 2004 hurricane season doing salvage work for Progressive. Your videos bring back memories of hard work but easy money. Keep up the good work.
@theoreinecke48674 ай бұрын
Professional job completed well done Captain your seamanship is truly outstanding
@finscreenname6 ай бұрын
Great work as always!!
@olliefoxx71656 ай бұрын
This is fascinating!!! Theres a show about tow truck drivers in Canada rescuing, recovering and towing different vehicles from various situations. The knowledge those men have about mechanics, geometry, physics is impressive. This guy is doing that on water! How does one even begin to train for such a difficult job? Apprenticeship maybe? Interesting video. 👍
@CaptainRetriever6 ай бұрын
Learn as you go, the only way to recreate it is by being there when it happens. First one of these I had to do was a hurricane damaged vessel, with a basketball size hole in the bottom, wedged between 2 docks, and used a single engine towboat.
@jehines36 ай бұрын
Capt had the right idea, just skipped physics. He needed to send the boom over as an offset for those barrels. Us racing sailors banging bottom on corners know the crew goes out on an overboard boom when we get a bit too close and find the bottom where did this dude get all those drums? Good tow as always.
@CaptainRetriever6 ай бұрын
No idea, lucky he didn’t lose any, they were tied together with dyneema, but the mainline was that home depot clothes line junk. Think there’s enough counterweight to put the deck in the water? (That’s usually where I find the necessary tilt.)
@westrig1806 ай бұрын
Took a bit to get her free but nice job ! What was the ballpark $ cost for this one ?
@CaptainRetriever6 ай бұрын
Cut the guy a break, just treated it as an ungrounding bc we’re slow, 1,500, and even that was a little light..
@mikeu53806 ай бұрын
It's "Ketch," not "Catch."
@CaptainRetriever6 ай бұрын
Oops have to change it when I get back, rushing to get it finalized
@mikeu53806 ай бұрын
@@CaptainRetriever Or in Yiddish, "Kvetch "... ; )
@rd46606 ай бұрын
Is that a knot on the anchor line?? WTH?
@CaptainRetriever6 ай бұрын
He payed out a lot, because the original plan was to winch it off, but yea knot in the middle