SnapperHunter28
Seaman
- Joined
- Jun 1, 2010
- Messages
- 51
Ok folks, I have read and read and read the boat ramp follies, and had my laughs. 
Now it's time for me to tell of my SHT tricks :redface::redface:
after a good night of fishing, we both limited out on yellowtails, and discovered a new ... "leak" thats a whole new story in itself...for another time... anyway back to MY SHT. So we get back to the dock, retrieve the boat, clean the boat, flush the motor, clean the fish, wash all the gear down, put everything away, and part ways. (keep in mind, this is a 15ft flats boat with a 85 horsepower johnson, being towed by a 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera FWD 4 cylinder - Never had a problem at any ramp in 3 years of owning it). I thought we put everything away and secured it for the trip to the storage facility, so I proceeded to head down the road. Everything goes fine till I decide to hit the highway (the shortcut)...I get up to about 65mph (thats a safe comfortable speed for my setup), and I'm driving...All the sudden I hear this horrendous noise and the trailer jerks wildly...after composing myself I pull off to the side of highway, to discover a fairly good size hole in the bow of the boat, and one of my ropes with a nice chunk of my bow on one end of it, laying in the ditch. It turns out, in my rush to get home, I forgot to take the bow rope off and stow it. And I ran it over going 65mph with the trailer tire, and ripped it off the bow, along with a peice of the boat.
Lesson learned here...make sure all your ropes are stowed away before leaving the boat ramp!!
Thank god I am a fiberglass man....that was an relatively easy fix
Now it's time for me to tell of my SHT tricks :redface::redface:after a good night of fishing, we both limited out on yellowtails, and discovered a new ... "leak" thats a whole new story in itself...for another time... anyway back to MY SHT. So we get back to the dock, retrieve the boat, clean the boat, flush the motor, clean the fish, wash all the gear down, put everything away, and part ways. (keep in mind, this is a 15ft flats boat with a 85 horsepower johnson, being towed by a 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera FWD 4 cylinder - Never had a problem at any ramp in 3 years of owning it). I thought we put everything away and secured it for the trip to the storage facility, so I proceeded to head down the road. Everything goes fine till I decide to hit the highway (the shortcut)...I get up to about 65mph (thats a safe comfortable speed for my setup), and I'm driving...All the sudden I hear this horrendous noise and the trailer jerks wildly...after composing myself I pull off to the side of highway, to discover a fairly good size hole in the bow of the boat, and one of my ropes with a nice chunk of my bow on one end of it, laying in the ditch. It turns out, in my rush to get home, I forgot to take the bow rope off and stow it. And I ran it over going 65mph with the trailer tire, and ripped it off the bow, along with a peice of the boat.
Lesson learned here...make sure all your ropes are stowed away before leaving the boat ramp!!
Thank god I am a fiberglass man....that was an relatively easy fix
