Tight River Towing Trick with a 30 Foot Boat in a Narrow Canal, and No Room for Error

[@Shane_Little]

I just took a job with SeaTow here in Florida. These videos are so helpful. You do great work, sir! ✌️

[@ninehundreddollarluxuryyac5958]

Guiding the customer's boat out of that skinny, windy canal involved amazing skill. I was also amused when you got out and pushed off. Nice job, the customer's boat never touched a thing, that's the way to do it.

[@CaptainRetriever]

You definitely can’t touch anything in that canal, if you look closely it’s all I beams for lifts, bolts overly sticking out of seawalls, or best case fiberglass lol

[@marcusleather1329]

Amazing towing skills. 10 out of 10

[@fprintf]

If I had to do that trip out of the canal each time I wanted to go boating I'd never go out. So crazy how deep that boat was buried!

[@CaptKenO]

You almost make it look like you know what you're doing capt! 😂 I hate the people who thought it was a good idea to make these canals that are barely big enough to get a boat in under it's own power safely and then we have to tow boats in/out of those places. Great job as always!

[@CaptainRetriever]

It takes so long to get out there. I don’t know why people have boats there unless you’re fishing locally.

[@CaptKenO]

@@CaptainRetriever especially for the premium they pay for "water front" property

[@JCInshore]

You need to change your channel name to "Dr. Retriever" as surgical as you get with it. This guy is insane.

[@Dm0stFin3sT]

Good lord you’re a master! Jumping off the boat was insane 😂😂😂

[@CaptainRetriever]

I try to do everything I can to keep the towed vessel in the middle, sometimes that means mine can't, and I have to reposition myself once it's past the danger..

[@theoreinecke4867]

That is really some cool boat tow work I have ever seen. Well done Captain

[@drob5664]

Wow, that was tight!

[@TheScooterBobby]

That’s what she said 😂

[@shermanmoore3605]

Bad ass! I hate seeing folks in trouble, but I do enjoy the videos. Water Wrecker:)

[@johnm5714]

That looked so annoying-OMG I would’ve been freaking out doing that.Great job man…was curious-I lived down there for a while back in the early 90s-where did you start that tow? Was that back off of Kanner Hwy/Tanglewood trail? My old business partner lived on a tiny canal like that and it took forever to get anywhere from there.Thanks-I enjoy your channel and seeing the Stuart/Jensen Beach area

[@CaptainRetriever]

Rustic hills about 200 yards past the covered bridge.. there’s another canal on the other side that’s almost as long but it’s pretty straight..

[@ScarabChris]

I know Florida has some narrow canals, I lived in an ocean access deep in Hollywood off the Dania Cut Off and south of Sheridan and East of 95. The canal my house was on was on a much wider portion but there are some very narrow ones like this, but with low bridges.I live right on the Dania canal now. Where was this neighborhood?

[@CaptainRetriever]

This is Palm City, in Bessy Creek

[@TheNfrod]

you're built different. easiest sub of my life.

[@TheCapthof]

Nice trick! You’re brave.

[@allanj4576]

Wonder if running two lines to the towed boat would help in a tight channel to keep it in line, one to each forward cleat? I know nothing, just throwing it out there. Absolutely love watching your work, from Kelowna, British Columbia.

[@CaptainRetriever]

A bridle will help some, but sometimes I prefer a single line just easier to work with when you have to slack the line for a sharp turn, a bridle will catch on the anchor.

[@hotrodhog2170]

Damn, how did you ever find him so far back?! Thats crazy man

[@atlantic18]

Nice control 👏impressive

[@xylol412]

Wow, helluva job!

[@TheScooterBobby]

That was extremely impressive 🫶

[@CatarineausArmory]

Absolute master sir.

[@carl_h]

I wonder how long it takes the owner to reach open water. Might be faster to tow it over land :|

[@CaptainRetriever]

If you’re just going fishing around the lights up the river, or letting the kid use your boat it’s probably not too bad, but running to the inlet or offshore it would take a lot more time that I would want..

[@luckydubeinrc5165]

needs a rubber V at the stern, pull the towed vessl much closer, into the V , no swinging then, we do it local

[@CaptainRetriever]

Make a video, not sure I understand

[@anthonymiller7992]

​@CaptainRetriever you create a pocket on the back of your boat that the bow or nose of the boat being towed is pulled into with wiggle room. It's the same thought as a barge with a V notch in the stern of the barge a tow tug puts its nose into it with tow lines coming off the stern of the tug connected to either side of the barge. And the tug can push the barg. They are mated and they both move together with no pivot. For you it's reverse engineering where the notch is at the back of your poat and you pull the boat being towed into the notch behind the outboards, with enough wiggle room to pivot like an 18 wheeler. And if need be you can wentch out the line a little letting the boat being towed fall behind a little depending on the situation Weld a V wide V and stick a tire in the closed end of the V with one on either side " inside " of the V , I guess it would be more like a U where the left and right side of the u is angled like a V. Giving room for different size boats and wiggle room

[@CaptainRetriever]

@@anthonymiller7992 My problem with that is you lose maneuverability, an 18 wheeler steers from the front with a pivot point, if he had to steer from his rear wheel it would do the same thing. You could accomplish that in reverse, have a notch in the bow of your boat. Pushing with no pivot it would be too long with some of the hairpin turns. It may work slightly better if theres more space between the engines like with a catamaran, but ours are all right next to eachother.

[@Timberns]

I’d raise or redesign my engine guard … Should be a rounded loop so you didn’t have corners… I mean… You’re needing it every day

[@CaptainRetriever]

The other more recent boat is better for that with rounded corners, but both will still catch with those overly hard turns, thats why I tie it higher