Well, I haven't done anything too stupid yet on my boat, but I pulled a goodie with my jet ski. I took it up to my buddies cottage on the Fox river here in Wisconsin for the first time this past summer. After tooling around on the river, I wanted to beach it rather than tieing it up to the dock. So I get going at WOT and heading for dry land. Well, I guess I misjudged when to kill the motor. I was probably about 50 ft or so from shore when I killed it. It didn't slow down quite as much as I wanted. I'm sitting on the thing heading at land around 35 mph, and I'm thinking "man I wish this thing had brakes". I realize theres no way I'm going to avoid it, so I hang on as tight as I can. At the high water level, there's a nice 12 inch step up. I hit the step and get airborne. I had to be at least 6 or 7 feet in the air. It must have looked like one of those trick riders going over a big ocean wave or something. Somehow I hang on when I hit the ground. And the thing keeps on sliding right up the grass. When the ski finally stopped, I turned around and thought to myself, jeez, I got that thing up here a little ways. We measured it: 67 feet, yep, over 20 yards from the water. I took 3 guys 15 minutes to drag the thing back to the water...not a scratch on her.
