have any of you ever sunk a boat? if so, how?

A couple, that I would care not to remember.

The most memorable one wasn't one that really "sunk" per say.

Boat was tied to the bank of the red river with the bait basket tied over the edge. Well apparently a barge passed during the night and the rope was dry rotted and broke. Boat starting floating down river and was found by another barge not occupied and bait basket full of live bait still hanging off the side. Said barge retrieved the boat and called the wildlife and sheriff department with the numbers to figure out who the owner was, because they thought they we were floating in the river. They didn't know dead alive or what. Well, this whole time we were in the camp with no service playing cards.

Fast forward to the next morning and we are now standing on the edge of the river hungover as shite wondering what happened to aforementioned boat, when my cell phone rings. "Mr. 34, this is the sheriff department are you with Dr. *****?" In my mind I was thinking, oh shite, what did we do last night. She then asks can I speak with him, I say sure. Hand him the phone and she asks him. "Sir, are you ok?" and his response was, "I'm a little hungover, but I'm gonna make it."

Long story short boat was tied downriver almost sunk and they thought we were all dead. We had some serious explaining to do to the loved ones after that.

Lost power in a storm. Wind and waves drove boat to Long Point, once bottom hit, waves came over sides, filling boat up. 18' Cajun Fish/Ski.

Not my boat but my buddy's boat that I was in. Fishing Lake Fork, old Charger boat that he had poked a hole in some years before and repaired. We slow rolled over a stump in the late afternoon, and soon noticed a ton of water in the back compartment. He just barely got the thing up on plane with water over our laps. I had grabbed a pack with phone, wallet, etc that I would need to swim to the bank. The thing went down in shallow water just as we made a run for the bank. Quite a shite show but no one was harmed....

12' john boat, overloaded, on a cold morning before daylight, heading duck hunting, with ice on the water. Good friend and I. Idling through cypress trees the bow rode up a knee and the stern sunk within seconds. We found ourselves standing in waste deep water. I had on waders, my friend did not, no land within 1/4 mile.

I pulled the motor from the transom and got soaked on my upper body, removed as much gear as possible from the boat to lighten the load, found shallower water and removed all the water we could from the boat, gathered as much gear as possible and paddled out to a main bayou. Someone pulled us to the landing about an 1 1/2 hours later as hypothermia was setting in on my friend.

Returned the next week and picked up the missing gear including a gun, 870 wingmaster, lost some bluing and got a new stock but works fine...

I use to have this dirt brown 16ft fiberglass trihull. Stuck a '75 Johnson 50HP on it from out in the barn (left over from an old ski boat).

We would run up the creek before day light and tie the boat off and then walk overland to a shallow slough and duck hunt. One morning we were headed up the creek before day light and hit a submerged log. Motor kicked up, no damage to the prop or anything else we could tell so we headed on and went hunting.

Got back mid morning to the boat and the foot was sitting on bottom with water over the floor of the boat. we started bailing and turned on the bilge pump. We had to reroute the line to above the gunnell. Got it flaoting and hauled butt to the ramp.

Got it home to find a large crack running the entire width of the transom.

I've only sunk a canoe and a pirogue.

My neighbor has a 24' heavy gauge flatboat sunk behind the condo right now. Now I have to get on his arse to haul it up before the bitching starts around here.* Any suggestions on how to help the guy unsink a boat?

* don't ever let anyone talk you into being a condo president now matter how much beer they give you.

Sunk and flipped a Boston Whaler in the Chef pass going ducking hunting. 3 of us on board along with a dog. Bad arse cold front and the water was trying to come in, leaving a 3' backwash chop. Lost power and a matter of seconds, we were in the water. 3 hours later, some old man was drinking coffee on his pier and saw us. Came out in a boat to pluck us out the water. How we didn't die, only God knows. We last everything including the dog.

Another time in a bass boat going well over 60 mph on Old River. I hit a log under the water, cracking a gash about 1' long by 2"-3" wide. Everything was great till I slowed down and water rushed in. Had to run the boat on shore.

Had just gotten our boat fixed at a shop and I took it out for the first time. Looked in the box where we keep the plug and it wasn't there so I assumed it was in. After about 10 minutes of relaxing on the water I noticed the boat is a little back heavy. Barely got it to crank and drained it out after driving for a bit. Pulled up to a bait shop dock and ran in to buy a universal plug but the pos didn't fit. Ended up buying a long skinny styrofoam bobber and jammed it in there. Worked like a charm. Keep the two extra that came in the 3 pack in the boat all the time just in case.

Eta: found out after that the shop had forgotten to give the plug back and it was sitting on someone's desk

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Heavy duty bags and an air compressor?

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I would think so and some bulge pumps, it is probably full of sediment now so that is more weight to deal with...