First a little history..
My father has always had a 14' Lund (red & silver) with a 15 hp Johson and loved to take his father along with myself and brother fishing. As we got older, moved away and his father passing, he bought a 1999 Lund Pro V 1900 with a Merc Optimax 150 with all the bells and whistles. I was puzzled with his new purchase because to him a computer was his hand held calculator (old school) and the boat was way too much for him to handle. So I would pilot the boat for him and take him fishing showing him how to operate any and all the equipment on his boat at a pace he could manage.
Now the incident.
I would back the boat up to the landing and tie a long rope between the dock and cleat on the boat. I would then back-up sort of quick and the boat would roll off into the lake and the rope would keep it at the dock. Every time I did this my father was amazed at how well it worked.
He and his neighbor went fishing and he tried my method of putting his boat into the water.....unsuccessful. The boat only rolled halfway off the trialer and he started to drive the pick-up and trailer away to park thinking the boat was in the water. The boat finally ended up rolling the rest of the way off the trailer in the middle of boat landing on the concrete. The weight of the motor crushed the rear transom, luckely I guess, his trailer has a power winch and they were able to winch it back up onto the trailer. He told me my method of landing his boat sucked and that I had to go pick the boat up from being repair at Lund, his insurance covered the damage.
To this day he launches his boat the old fashioned way.
My father has always had a 14' Lund (red & silver) with a 15 hp Johson and loved to take his father along with myself and brother fishing. As we got older, moved away and his father passing, he bought a 1999 Lund Pro V 1900 with a Merc Optimax 150 with all the bells and whistles. I was puzzled with his new purchase because to him a computer was his hand held calculator (old school) and the boat was way too much for him to handle. So I would pilot the boat for him and take him fishing showing him how to operate any and all the equipment on his boat at a pace he could manage.
Now the incident.
I would back the boat up to the landing and tie a long rope between the dock and cleat on the boat. I would then back-up sort of quick and the boat would roll off into the lake and the rope would keep it at the dock. Every time I did this my father was amazed at how well it worked.
He and his neighbor went fishing and he tried my method of putting his boat into the water.....unsuccessful. The boat only rolled halfway off the trialer and he started to drive the pick-up and trailer away to park thinking the boat was in the water. The boat finally ended up rolling the rest of the way off the trailer in the middle of boat landing on the concrete. The weight of the motor crushed the rear transom, luckely I guess, his trailer has a power winch and they were able to winch it back up onto the trailer. He told me my method of landing his boat sucked and that I had to go pick the boat up from being repair at Lund, his insurance covered the damage.
To this day he launches his boat the old fashioned way.
