|
|
Member
Posts: 2567
Location: Manitowoc, WI | Unbelieveable!!!! I don't know where to start. Here's this guy, along with his son, trying to launch his boat and he's holding everyone up tonight at DePere. Seems he forgot to take off his straps on the back of his boat. Both comical and irritating!!!! I swear, where do they find these guys??? And it was obvious that it must have been his first trip with his new boat. Big, beautiful, shiny, fully wrapped G3 with a full windshield, 200 hp Yamaha HPDI, and all the trimmings.......guys like that who don't know what they're doing or how to launch a boat shouldn't be allowed to leave the house!!!!
Okay.....yes, it was me......LOL.....at least I can laugh about it now.....:) |
|
| |
|
| I can identify with that. Back down into the water and push like hell on a boat sitting on a roller trailer and the boat goes nowhere. Pull outta the water and check, surer than God made green apples the straps are still on. Oh, well, no damage done. And I'm supposed to know better. |
|
| |
|
Location: Rhinelander | Jerry, you are not alone...  |
|
| |
|
Member
Posts: 538
| Jerry,
Isn't great, that you still can be exited enough about a new boat that your mind goes on the fritz.
Hope the fishing was good, or was it just a break in trip?
Take care,
Jim O |
|
| |
|
Member
Posts: 33
Location: Plymouth WI | Transom savers do a nice job of holding a boat on also. |
|
| |
|
| Left the straps on, left the plug out, done most of it but....
A couple weeks ago I had to help load a bayliner back onto the trailer after it landed on the ramp because the chains had been taken off at the top of the ramp. It looked like a very painful way to start the day.
The bunks felt like they had been greased. |
|
| |
|
| Patience.............Look at it this way.....some people PAY to see good comedy ! It only cost you some time. Here is one for you, I was putting my boat on the trailer last summer, A DUDE and his girl friend were putting the JET skis on their trailer, I could tell she was NEW to this and was very uncomfortable handling the machine, he says " just aim it in the middle and hit the gas" ! Whoa Baby, she did what he said, hit the trailer, flew over the side and fell off. HE proceeded to call her every name in the book, didn`t ask if she was Ok ! HE Was just PISSED she scratched the jet ski.........I jumped in and pulled her out. He was still raving........I proceeded to tell him what I thought of him and what he could do with his precious machine, maybe I should have kept quite, he got red faced, she smiled.........thing is, if you really want to have some fun, take a lawn chair to the boat launch, a video camera, heck you could even make some cash for "the funniest Video.......If you really think about it, LIFES TO SHORT, LAUGH IT OFF, and remember the guy messing up KNOWS everyone is watching. |
|
| |
|
Member
Posts: 5
| I hear ya, I quess we all have to start somewhere. My famliy always goes to a park on a popular lake for Fathers day and we take the spot right next to the landing just for the entrtainment. The stories I could tell. An outdoor writer wrote about this and he wrote something that kind of sticks with me and that is "did you help?" I quess now I try to help people if they are having problems because we all have been there and it's fustrating on both sides. |
|
| |
|
Member
Posts: 2567
Location: Manitowoc, WI | Jim O.,
EXACTLY!!!!! It was the first fishing trip of the year with the new ride. We had 4 walleyes and 2 cats in about an hour. I was very pleased with the pickup and handling of the G3. The break-in was done on a lake near the factory, so I didn't have to worry about it. |
|
| |
|
| Did you break in the prop up at the damn? I too looked funny this year as I forgot to unhook the safety chain first time out, It's amazing the number of people mess things up. I have a relative that lives next to a boat launch on the Wolf and am going to give him my camera to film a weekend! Could make for an awesome compilation don't ya think?
Good Luck
Tyee |
|
| |
|
Member
Posts: 921
Location: Manitowoc, WI | My first time launching the 2060 at DePere was right in the middle of the Sheboygan Walleye Clubs outing. I was not a member yet but everyone knew Pat's boat. I like to launch against an upstream side of a dock when I am by myself. Unfortunately, it was busy and had to settle for the downstream side of the dock. Lo and behold, I push off, jump in the boat, walk back to the middle where I normally would just grab a cleat on the dock and tie her off. To my suprise, I was already four feet away from the dock. Fortunately, my fingertips just caught the cleat and I was able to get her tied up. Another 1/8 inch and I would have been cold and wet, not to mention the laughing stock of the day. And I am sure the club would have never let me live that one down. Gotta be mo careful! |
|
| |
|
Location: Midland, MI 48642 | Jerry, don't feel alone. I have done the same things plug, straps, and yes the winch strap once or twice. ha I am over 50 so have an excuse now anyway. I feel good about that, THE EXCUSE not the 50 part. lolol Skeeter |
|
| |
|
Member
Posts: 2393
Location: Waukesha Wisconsin | I'm in your club Jerry. When do we all get membership cards? 
It's great to see that you kept your sense of humor. We all need to laugh at ourselves more often. |
|
| |
|
| Must be somethin with that river, I did the same thing at the GB launch. Why is my trailer floating????? |
|
| |
|
Member
Posts: 185
Location: Port Washington, wisconsin | My wife and I have spent many summer evenings here in Port Washington, enjoying our after dinner coffee down at the boat launch. Some nights it's darn right comical. That is funny though Jerry. I've been there too. |
|
| |
|
Member
Posts: 3899
| hehehe It's great that you get to laugh at yourself, jerry.
First time out, way back when, with a brand new Tuffy, I didn't tilt the motor up. Backing down the ramp, the tires fell in between the concrete slabs. Gunning it a bit to get the tires up on the next pad, I hear a clink sound. Put it in park, and go back to see the skeg gone, and half of one blade on the prop gone too. Pull her back up, and off to the prop shop for skeg and prop repair. Didn't get the new boat out for another week! Man, I felt stupid. Oh yeah. There were about 40 people watching me. |
|
| |
|
Member
Posts: 105
| Been there done that. Was going out one sunny summer day and I was waiting to launch so I unhooked everything and go it ready to launch. Well I was going to back it down to the water then let my wife just back me in the rest of the way and park the truck and trailer. Well when I got down to the point which I wanted to let her back me in the rest of the way, I thought i put the truck in park but no, it was in reverse and before I knew it, the boat was off the trailer and I was still trying to get the truck stopped. I did get the truck stopped before it ever got to the water but the boat was about 50 yards down river. So, I thought heck what a nice day for a swim. But there was a boat coming and they pulled it to shore for me and I was very much appreciative for their help.
So, yes, I have also been there done that.
|
|
| |
|
Member
Posts: 701
Location: upper michigan | I got a good one for ya all a guy up here baught a used boat he had never owned a boat before and wanted to take it for a ride on lake Antoin. well some guys seen this boat running around the lake and it just didnt look right. Well the guy was driveing the boat on the water with the trailer still under the boat.
Edited by butch 3/29/2006 6:24 PM
|
|
| |
|
Member
Posts: 1040
Location: Stevens Point, WI | Butch,
That's pretty hard to top a story like that! Way to funny!
Edited by Merckid 3/29/2006 7:01 PM
|
|
| |
|
Member
Posts: 15
Location: Saskatoon, SK, Canada | Last spring I was fishing about a mile from a boat launch and could see some commotion but was to far away to make out what was happening.
Later when I went in for the evening there was an upset guy on the dock and he said his truck was in the lake. After a day of fishing he had backed down the ramp, shut off his truck and left it in gear (standard) but didn't set the park brake, he got out to help his buddy load the boat when the truck started to roll into the lake. I drove over it with my boat to pick up some of the flotilla and could see the cab lights glowing under about 8 feet of water. Judging by the little brown bottles in their boat I think this was an alcohol assisted event. |
|
| |
|
Member
Posts: 11
| It is amazing no matter how long I have been launching a boat, every now and then, the old brain stops working!
I was taking some clients on the water, the ramp was busy and I was in a hurry to launch as to avoid screwing up someone elses launch. Everything was great until both bilge pumps on my Ranger kept dumping water. I forgot to put the plug in!
It is amazing what one sees at a boat launch though! |
|
| |
|
| Jerry... Launching boats has been a facet of my various types of employment (resort owner, Guide, and now Boat Dealer) for 40 years....and I still do that at least twice a year, every year...and I have quite a few years on me.
LOL! |
|
| |
|
Member
Posts: 1406
| Jerry, I just had to bring this up again, after getting hung up on the rocks by the damn myself last night, my coangler brought up an interesting experience he had at the launch this past weekend when some "newbie with a big G3" Low and behold he was right there next to you and your son watching you and your strap experience! He said it was quite comical to say the least, the best part was the bubbles coming out of your muffler and then watching the trailer get hung up on the ramp! He told me to say Hi and thank you for reminding him of his misfortunes over the years! SMALL WORLD huh!
Good Luck
Tyee |
|
| |
|
Member
Posts: 885
| I won't name any names... but a certain friend of mine backed his trailer and boat into the water last year (I offered to drive his boat off the trailer while he went to park his truck a 1/2 mile from the ramp, my boat was already safely tied to the dock.) and forgot the plug... I was in the boat when I noticed the first bilge pump kick in, but everyone knows that with the angle of launching, it will sometimes kick on the pump with the leftover water from the trip before... so I did not think anything was wrong... until the second bilge pump kicked on and both stayed on with a strong stream of water...kind of like a fireboat celebration. It was a fairly warm day so I took off my shirt and reached down under the step transom to see if I could screw the plug back in only to discover that Skeeters have more then 1 hole down there and there was no plug dangling anywhere to be found...After a few minutes of chasing him down, we managed to get the boat back on the trailer and yes the plug was gone... it had fallen off the fender of his trailer back in Neenah.... not to worry, a certain DNR Marine Biologist with the initials of KK (who was fishing with my friend)...came to the rescue with a 3/4 inch dowel with a few wraps of electrical tape that made a perfect plug...... Amazing what I guy will do just to go out fishing…In fact if you see him this year at the launch... that plug may still be in his boat!!
P.S.
|
|
| |
Idiots at the boat launch!!!!