Sit back and watch!!!!!

[88spl]

Last saterday, oh what a beautifull day it was, myself and daughter (12yrs), after getting the boat out of the shop the day befor went to the lake to try her out....ran like a top. Have read many horror stories here about boat ramp tactics, so I ancored<br />her just past the 5mph boies(SP)where we had a frunt row seat to the ramp. <br />Well.. there was three of them, the boat was a 18ft v hull 125hp johnson outboard. It looked as if they had problems from the start<br />as they never could do better than 5 or 10 mph, and decided to pull her out of the water. He pulled up to the ramp and let the two chums out, and tossed a line to one on the ramp and put her in reverse and backed away....away like 100 yards away....and pulled the line right out of the guy holding it...lol, then for some reason he put it in forward (he must have thought it was in nutral...hehe, and sucked the line right up in his prop. After he freed the prop and his buddy had jackknifed his trailer pulling it back to the ramp....he finally got it in at an angle (trailer is the kind you cant see)<br />almost a 45deg angle in the water....OK the capt decided to run her up the trailer (just like butter) wrong.....miss judged the angle of the trailer and smakeroow!!! Well now he is sumwhat po'd, and tells his bud to pull the trailer out and try to straighten it up. Meanwhile he has the 4 boat ramp all to himself, with at least 4 boats waiting to dock and 4 or 5 waitting to launch... the presures on He makes it finally, and he tells his bud to get out of the truck and he takes over, slams it in gear, spins the tires....my daughter looks at me and laughs<br />and said Dad he did'nt raise his motor? I'm<br />sorry, but I had to let it out He slamed on the brakes after one of the guys yelled at him to stop. They ran to the motor and lifted it up (even though it was hydrl. lift)<br />Capt got out of the truck and just shook his head Strapped her down and took off.<br />After all that I must say, me and my daughter<br />never have retreived the boat with so much prection and timming

 

[ebbtide176]

Re: Sit back and watch!!!!!

last sat i went to lake to get my hummingterd indash going - (it was a bad gauge hdr200, for those interested), and had a good laugh coming in. since the lake was low, the public dock(floating) was sitting right at edge of water, so some boats would tie to it, although it was too high to get out of boat onto. i pulled up to the bank, and was packing up my tools&such. there was a guy with teenage sons who had unloaded his pontoon boat, and was having a hard time getting it to idle. it was running rough, kept stalling. so he made a few surges, made it to the dock, and tied up. he ckd the engine, cussed a lot, put a hurting on the starter(50hp engine,probably 18ft toon). he finally revved it up enough to keep it running, and backed away. all this in @ 5mins. i was about to get out of my boat when i heard this boat revving again, looked around and this guy was cussing about how his sons had mixed the fuel wrong, and they were going home. he was p.o'd and running pretty fast back to the dock, to keep it from stalling (at a speed that would require some full reverse engine to stop in time). of course it dies about 10yds out!:eek i can't hardly type for laughing even now) he is on the starter, jerking his head up to ck the bank, back to stare at the key... his sons have started moving to back of boat, assuming fetal/crash position, finally he grabs steering wheel with locked arms - they pile into the dock's styrofoam underside, lay the headlights on the toons back, lifting the dock a few inches and burying @ 1.5ft! <br />i had to turn my head....by the time i was off the ramp, they had finally pushed the toon out from under the ramp it will make a nice formfit for other toons who may not have a handy dockline in the future.

 

[PurpleDragon]

Re: Sit back and watch!!!!!

Hey 88SPL,<br /><br />What lake were you on? Lake Ray Hubbard? Lavon?<br /><br />Rex S.

 

[88spl]

Re: Sit back and watch!!!!!

lake ray hubbard