autobaun70

This was a few hundred yards outside my folks cove. Amazingly nobody got killed. Details still scarce. Upper part of the lake near the split in the rivers.

nccoaster

Damn.

crspang

Buffalo Creek? I saw a sea tow boat headed that way around 8am

sltwtrcry

wow. Thanks for the pics. I heard about that earlier but only limited details.

autobaun70

Further up stream. Right off Osprey Point is my understanding. That's about 1/2 mile before the rivers split to go towards Blacks Bridge and Big Mans.

crspang

Gotcha

NC_Native

Was that a houseboat or a camper on the shoreline?

autobaun70

houseboat, underway at the time, with 2 people on board. Neither had major injuries as I understand it. Appears the bay boat hit the port bow.

Walleye Guy

Night boating. Gee whatever could go wrong....

autobaun70

I lived a few hundred yards from where this happened for several years. Still there a lot at night with a 30 min ride home. There has got to be more to the story than what is out currently. Water is wide open there, with very little shoreline light pollution.

Jon A Mason

No running lights could be a cause. On a moonless/cloud covered night it wouldnt be hard for this to happen.

autobaun70

Just talked to my uncle who saw the response lights from his boat. I misunderstood the direction....it was a bit upstream from the split of the rivers towards Blacks Bridge. Between the split and Blackgate East, in view of the split.

autobaun70

Came across this a few min ago.

https://www.facebook.com/troy.bennet...0437367302973/

REMfish7

One day we will go to no wake after sunset.

autobaun70

Hopefully I never live to see that day. Would love to see DNR fiercely enforce lighting standards on the lake. Way too many boats with improper lights or lights being obscured by tops, aux lighting/etc. Also shoreline lights are beginning to become a major hazard in some places.

Bobcs71

I moved to Lake Hartwell 2 1/2 years ago. I'm not out at night often but I've never seen so many people running with dock lights on & such. I'm surprised how much harder it becomes to gauge a boats direction & speed that way. I was more used to the FL intracoastal and it was usually red/green/white and people running along the channel. I'm good with your suggestion of enforcing lighting standards.

autobaun70

Hartwell is no place to mess around with jacked up lighting. One thing we don't have on Murray is piling type day markers. Those are unforgiving at night. Idiots with docking lights blinding other folks don't make them any easier to see. I really wish they would mandate hooking docking lights to an annoying on board buzzer so that they annoy the piss out of anyone that uses them improperly.

Bailey Boat

Improper lighting is what I see the most at night around my area. Tiny little lights with clouded lenses that are about as useful as a damned Bic lighter.... And as always, people going way too fast for the conditions...

autobaun70

For sure. The ones that piss me off are the guys with jon boats that have about 2' of mast on their stern/allround light. Can't see the thing except coming at them from one particular corner from the rear, as it's blocked by either the outboard, the boat, or their body the majority of the time.

EyeSoreSportfishing

Except for the piling at the little gap to Dreher...that one can sneak up on ya. The lighting that gets me is the pontoon boats with all the "accent lighting" looking like a Christmas tree going down the lake at night.