Remembered the plug, but wrong hole

[rndn]

Last weekend my brother was launching his boat. He usually covers his boat and leaves the plug in all of the time. Well his cover collapsed and allowed a bunch of rain water into the boat. He let it drain for a few days and wrote himself several notes so he would remember the plug.
Well he got to the boat launch and proudly installs the plug and launches the boat. His wife tells him when he returns from parking the truck that she sees water in the boat. Mind you he has a nice carpeted deck so when she saw the water it already had several inches in the boat. Knowing that he remembered the plug he couldn't figure out what was wrong. He waded into the water and reached down figureing the plug came out some how and planned to jam something in to stop it untill he could get the boat back onto the trailer. He found the drain hole and no plug and then felt the plug in the next hole over. He removed the plug from his livewell drain hole and placed it into the correct hole.
He was lucky that his bilge pump was able to get the water out after a while and did not need to take it out to drain it as the launch was crowded.
The other very lucky thing that happened is that for all future launches he has his wife to remind him to make sure the plug is in and in the right hole.

 

[Don Dickinson]

Re: Remembered the plug, but wrong hole

I did that one time last year. I was going through my checklist and doing everything I needed to in order to launch, when a guy next to me asked for help getting his boat off the trailer. I quickly and incorrectly put the plug in the livewell drain instead of the drain and went to help him. I have a bass boat, so it didn't sink, but I did manage to fill up the back compartment with water before I could get it back on the trailer and drain it. After that I decided I'd put the plug in from the inside out instead of outside in. There is obviously only one hole on the inside where the plug can go. Haven't sunk my boat since

 

[kenmyfam]

Re: Remembered the plug, but wrong hole

Scary thing the plug. We have them all over the place and one on the boat key chain. When we go to put the key in before launch we see it and it is a reminder to put it in if not already there. Now the boat key is another matter !!!!