SigSaurP229
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I have been boating in some form or fashion for going on 15 years now, and I have had my blunders mostly from my younger years where if it ran that was good enough. I had in those days been known to disregard things like dead mans tether (will become important later). I am probably going to break this up into a few pieces.
Story#1
Grandpa had me on a boat from the time that I was about ten years old he had a 28' toon with a 70hp Johnson had a blast learned how to drive on it what power tilt was and the boating basics, unfortunately there was one time my whole family decided we were going to go on the lake and go fishing. When Grandpa decided that we were leaving the cove that we were fishing in. Dad and I were sitting on the bow he right next to me. (Sitting on the bow of pontoon outside of safety railing =not smart. About this time being the 10 year old kid that I was thought it would be cool to see how fast it would fly towards the back of the boat if I spit INTO the wind. My poor dad got a facefull.
Story #2
Dad's Revenge
12 years later after Grandpa had his stroke and the Toon was long sold I was driving home from work one night, when I looked to my left I saw an old 1972 Thundercraft Bass boat with a big 100 hp Evinrude ELECTRIC shift foot powered trolling motor solid floor with rotten seat bases. $600 and she was mine and that old evinrude powerhead ran like a top. The lower unit however was VERY fussy, would only go into reverse when it wanted to. So I just dealt with it. When I launched I just dropped my trolling motor backed right over to the dock and moored it while I parked the truck. I lived an hour from my family (closer to work). I just basically used the boat by myself I developed a bad habit of starting the motor letting it idle dropping my trolling motor trolling away from the dock but using my foot to push off from the dock. NBD worked like a charm everytime I did it by myself. It was Mid April and that is BASS season around here. So dad decided he is going to come over and go fishing. Upon arrival at the lake I go through my whole procedure launch the boat one foot on boat one foot on dock motor running dad a captain's seat, push the dock and Dad throws the motor in reverse at the exact same time I push the dock and one of the few times that motor actually decided to go into reverse left me hanging from the side of the boat Wallet Truck Keys Cell phone all in the drink.
Moral of this story Dad ALWAYS gets the last laugh
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Story#1
Grandpa had me on a boat from the time that I was about ten years old he had a 28' toon with a 70hp Johnson had a blast learned how to drive on it what power tilt was and the boating basics, unfortunately there was one time my whole family decided we were going to go on the lake and go fishing. When Grandpa decided that we were leaving the cove that we were fishing in. Dad and I were sitting on the bow he right next to me. (Sitting on the bow of pontoon outside of safety railing =not smart. About this time being the 10 year old kid that I was thought it would be cool to see how fast it would fly towards the back of the boat if I spit INTO the wind. My poor dad got a facefull.
Story #2
Dad's Revenge
12 years later after Grandpa had his stroke and the Toon was long sold I was driving home from work one night, when I looked to my left I saw an old 1972 Thundercraft Bass boat with a big 100 hp Evinrude ELECTRIC shift foot powered trolling motor solid floor with rotten seat bases. $600 and she was mine and that old evinrude powerhead ran like a top. The lower unit however was VERY fussy, would only go into reverse when it wanted to. So I just dealt with it. When I launched I just dropped my trolling motor backed right over to the dock and moored it while I parked the truck. I lived an hour from my family (closer to work). I just basically used the boat by myself I developed a bad habit of starting the motor letting it idle dropping my trolling motor trolling away from the dock but using my foot to push off from the dock. NBD worked like a charm everytime I did it by myself. It was Mid April and that is BASS season around here. So dad decided he is going to come over and go fishing. Upon arrival at the lake I go through my whole procedure launch the boat one foot on boat one foot on dock motor running dad a captain's seat, push the dock and Dad throws the motor in reverse at the exact same time I push the dock and one of the few times that motor actually decided to go into reverse left me hanging from the side of the boat Wallet Truck Keys Cell phone all in the drink.
Moral of this story Dad ALWAYS gets the last laugh
More To Follow
