davisjeremy1981
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Well for anyone that has read my dad's post under the reports you have an Idea of what happened to us during CFF 8. Let me start off by saying this if you have headlights on you boat make sure they are aimed properly and are not too bright. I think people forget that water reflects light and therefore magnifies it. Combine that with a moonless night when peoples eyes have adjusted fully to peering into the dark and it makes for a bad combination. I was blinded Friday night about 1230 am while heading back to the park by someone that was running down river and never shut his lights off. I could be wrong but my understanding was that it is illegal to run boat headlights non-stop because it blinds other boaters. Anyway, like I said we were headed back to CFP from wolftever, made the right had turn at the main river and started up. Right when I got to the slight left turn in the river channel I got hit with this boats headlights and totally whited out my vision. I instantly started pulling the throttle back and tried to check my surroundings for any other boats. As soon as I got enough spots out I my vision and could see enough to check my GPS I realized we had gotten out of the main channel and corrected to the left. I had enough time to go Shit and try to turn hard left and BAM!!! Took one of those main river steel can markers square nose on the starboard (right) side at 25-30mph. The impact knocked a massive dent in my bow and blasted my 6month old Minn Kota Ultrex off its bolts and over the side (inches over my dads head) smashing my 6month old helix 9 bow unit in the process. We were very lucky that things didn't send up worse. The impact didn't break a single weld, the boat never took on a bit of water other than that large dent/warp to the very forward part of the front deck my boat came though undamaged.
That being said does anyone know a shop that can repair damage to an aluminum boat?
That being said does anyone know a shop that can repair damage to an aluminum boat?