Launch Problems

[Dman]

A buddy and myself on on our way down to the ramp and of course about a mile away from the launch, we hear a gunshot like noise and there goes the trailer tire. Being unprepared as usual he had no spare with him. We pull over and look at the shredded mess. We figured it was only a mile left to go and the sun was just starting to go down. We needed to get to the water. The tire came off and we were riding on the rim rest of the way to the lake. Sparks a flying. People actually asked us if we knew we had a flat. No kidding. <br /><br />We finally get our vessal in the water and just about ready to start fishing. Another guy is launching his boat and this guy forgets to take the straps of his boat that are holding it to the trailer. We slowly backed away from the launch watching this guy backing farther and farther in the water and wondering why his boat is not sliding off the trailer. The back end of the boat is now filling up with water and farther back he goes. Pretty soon the entire boat is filled with water, water is well over the transom. He gets out of his older Suburban and doesn't seemed surprised at all. Just a couple shakes of his head and back to the truck he goes. He proceeds to pull the boat out. Imagine a 14 ft aluminum full of water and the Suburban having troubles pulling it out. There must have been 500 gallons of water in it. There was about a 4 inch lip on the concrete launch where some of the concrete had eroded away. The tires of the trailer hit this lip and stopped. The guy wonders what the problem is and hits the gas a little to get the tires up over the lip. As he hits the gas, the left side of the axle can't take anymore and snaps. The tire and rim are now sideways dragging behind the axle. The entire left side of the trailer is now dragging and scrapping on the ground as he is driving up the landing. There must have been a couple thousand pounds on that little trailer. <br /><br />After watching this charade for about 10 minutes, we figured our flat tire problem was nothing compared to this guy. We went out after that and we have no idea how he got his rig back home. We were brought a spare after we got back to the landing. Dman

 

[johnntab]

Re: Launch Problems

That kind of day sounds familiar Dman. My friend and i took out his 14 foot jon boat for a day of river fishing a couple of weeks ago. It was a beautiful day about 60 degrees, so something had to go wrong. Our river access wasnt perfect so we had to hand deliver the boat to the water. Once we got it in the water, we went back to the truck to get fishing poles and such. When I got back to the boat, there was about 50 gallons of water in it. So we took it back out of the river, drained it, put the plug in and then relaunched. While he tried to start the outboard, i was going to keep us out of trouble with the oars. Only then did we realize we forgot to bring the oars. Oh well, no big deal, we have a trolling motor. So then the handle pulls off of the starter rope, but with a quick fix we are finally underway. We get upstream a little and decide to anchor and fish for a few minutes. With no luck in this spot we pull anchor, or try to. The anchor rope unties, and leaves the anchor on the bottom. The water was clear enough to see the anchor, but it was cold, 45 degrees cold. My friend being the brave soul that he is, stripped to his undies, and went in after it. As soon as he hit the water, he came back up screaming like a little girl. He climbed back in the boat, and we went to the lake to fish. We didnt catch anything there, but we didnt lose or break anything else.

 

[ebbtide176]

Re: Launch Problems

<br />rotflmao!!! i'm still chucklin at both of u. i think i pulled something <br />hehehe - those stories made my day, thanx! hehehe

 

[crab bait]

Re: Launch Problems

this post is funny !! but seriously there has been many many heart attacks jumpin' into cold water ... also it knocks the breath out ya an lungs mussels don't work . all you do is " GASP" to death... but on a more serious note..... funny post... ok back to laughter....