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re: Are boat launches some of the most comical places on earth?
Posted on 5/7/24 at 11:43 am to SeraphimSarov
Posted on 5/7/24 at 11:43 am to SeraphimSarov
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I forgot to put my plug into my boat prior to launching
Did this when I was 16 but didn’t notice until I was in the boat leaving the launch. I made the strategic decision to get it on top the water, let it drain and plug up on the fly. Lesson learned.
This post was edited on 5/7/24 at 11:47 am
Posted on 5/7/24 at 11:43 am to cbree88
Posted on 5/7/24 at 11:44 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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I've launched a boat hundreds of times and somehow I've never seen anything crazy at the launch
This is impossible to believe
Posted on 5/7/24 at 11:45 am to cbree88
My dad had a 78 Ford F150. I backed the trailer down the ramp to load our boat. Dad drove it up on the trailer. I shifted into 1st gear, popped the clutch and the truck went backwards bout 5 feet before i could slam the break. Dad , still in the boat, waded ashore, popped the hood, and manually shifted it into 1st gear. The shift collar on the steering column had broken and was stuck in reverse. Lucky i didnt lose our truck in the Tensas River.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 11:45 am to Ghost of Colby
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There’s the adult who never learned to back up a trailer and has to keep pulling up and correcting it like 10 times.
I’m calling myself out on this one.
Me too. I bought a house on the water for this exact reason. Just lower the hoist and the boat is in the water. If I do have to pull the boat out for some reason, I go at night when the launch is empty so I'm not making everyone wait on me
Posted on 5/7/24 at 11:49 am to cbree88
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My cousin’s grandpa
Wouldn’t that be your grandpa, too?
Posted on 5/7/24 at 11:49 am to cbree88
I've seen a couple youtube videos taken at a boat ramp in Florida that has about a 15 foot American crocodile swimming around the docks. I forget the name of the channel but the guy making the videos even named the croc lol.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 11:51 am to cbree88
There are a couple of YouTube channels where the guys just film the boat ramps. The Big Dan Show uploads a new video just about every week.
Some of this people with high dollar boats not knowing how to trailer them is crazy.
Some of this people with high dollar boats not knowing how to trailer them is crazy.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 11:51 am to cbree88
Yes they are, and I've been on the clown end of it myself before.
One time I was putting my boat in at a crowded ramp.
I had a great running old Johnson Seahorse 18hp motor on it, but I didn't know that I had backed into something and had cracked the swivel housing.
I dropped the anchor by the ramp, put the boat in and went to park my truck.
Came back to the boat, picked up my anchor and shoved my boat out and jumped in.
I went to my seat pumped my fuel up a little, pulled the choke, then the rope and it fires right up.
I put in reverse and back out into a little deeper water, then got it turned toward the channel.
I idled out a little further where I knew I was in about 10 feet of water and I gassed it.
The swivel broke and the whole motor comes off the back at full throttle and I'm still hanging on to the tiller handle.
I tried to hang on to it but it almost pulled me in with it, I had to let it go.
Damn that was embarrassing
One time I was putting my boat in at a crowded ramp.
I had a great running old Johnson Seahorse 18hp motor on it, but I didn't know that I had backed into something and had cracked the swivel housing.
I dropped the anchor by the ramp, put the boat in and went to park my truck.
Came back to the boat, picked up my anchor and shoved my boat out and jumped in.
I went to my seat pumped my fuel up a little, pulled the choke, then the rope and it fires right up.
I put in reverse and back out into a little deeper water, then got it turned toward the channel.
I idled out a little further where I knew I was in about 10 feet of water and I gassed it.
The swivel broke and the whole motor comes off the back at full throttle and I'm still hanging on to the tiller handle.
I tried to hang on to it but it almost pulled me in with it, I had to let it go.
Damn that was embarrassing
This post was edited on 5/7/24 at 12:03 pm
Posted on 5/7/24 at 11:53 am to cbree88
I'll never forget when I was a kid my dad had already launched and tied off and had me wait in the boat while he went park the truck. Watched a guy launch his boat and let it go floating out into the water. He drove off and parked. Came back just waded into the water and swam to the boat.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 11:54 am to cbree88
When I was a teenager I worked for a boat launch that used an electric hoist to take the boats off trailers and put them in the water.
At least 2-3 times a day on the weekends when things were real busy the idiots would fail to put the plug in the boat and after we launched the boat we'd move it along the dock out of the way so others could be launched while the owner parked vehicle in the lot.
Of course they'd come back in about 10 minutes and see their boat filling up with water and go into panic mode.
Pissed us off because it held up the line from getting their boats in the water when we had to pick their boat back up so it could drain.
At least 2-3 times a day on the weekends when things were real busy the idiots would fail to put the plug in the boat and after we launched the boat we'd move it along the dock out of the way so others could be launched while the owner parked vehicle in the lot.
Of course they'd come back in about 10 minutes and see their boat filling up with water and go into panic mode.
Pissed us off because it held up the line from getting their boats in the water when we had to pick their boat back up so it could drain.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 11:58 am to cbree88
I watched a guy with a new glitter rocket trying to put it in the water and he just couldn't bring himself to back it all the way where it needed to go to float it, so what does he do?
Puts down his power poles and pulls forward.
Needless to say, that was not a smart move. Now he's got two power poles that aren't going to retract every again because they're both bent, and now he can't even pull up because the boat is about a fourth way off the trailer so in spite of it all, he has to back down where he needed to go to get the thing to float to put it back on the trailer. As he was dragging those poles up the ramp and across the parking lot we were dying laughing in the cockpit of one of our sailboats and we started talking about getting score cards we can all put up at one time to score these kinds of idiots.
Puts down his power poles and pulls forward.
Needless to say, that was not a smart move. Now he's got two power poles that aren't going to retract every again because they're both bent, and now he can't even pull up because the boat is about a fourth way off the trailer so in spite of it all, he has to back down where he needed to go to get the thing to float to put it back on the trailer. As he was dragging those poles up the ramp and across the parking lot we were dying laughing in the cockpit of one of our sailboats and we started talking about getting score cards we can all put up at one time to score these kinds of idiots.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 12:02 pm to cbree88
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I’ve seen a guy return to the launch and put his boat on the trailer in order to drain all the water out of it once every 30 minutes because the boat had a leak and the bilge pump wasn’t working.
I would rule this as reasonable and awesome if they are biting.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 12:03 pm to Captain Rumbeard
Fun times in Fourchon and Grand Isle just drinking a beer and watching. If you see an older boat come in behind an old pickup, they're a pro. Brand new lifted diesel with rims and a shiny boat, grab your popcorn.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 12:06 pm to Captain Rumbeard
At Cypress Cove in Venice, I saw a guy flip a brand new bass boat upside down trying to put it on his trailer. They had to bring a crane in to lift it out of the launch. It was amazing that he didn't kill himself. I heard him tell someone it was his first time taking it out.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 12:06 pm to cbree88
Qualified Captain on Instagram will constantly have you shaking your head at people that are allowed on the water.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 12:11 pm to Pork Que
I don’t follow the Miami boat ramps Instagram but there are some hilarious videos on YouTube from (76th Street I think) public boat ramp in Miami. There are some stupid mofos out there and some of them have really nice boats.
Posted on 5/7/24 at 12:12 pm to cbree88
I worked at a marina outside of Monroe my Senior year of high school. The owner of the marina’s son and I were buddies and he lured me into this job since it required getting up at 5 to be at work at 6 and nobody wanted to open after drinking all night. Absolutely boring for the most part except dealing with some of the more diverse clientele was fun and then sitting back watching the circus at the actual ramp. This lake was known for huge bream hence the reason for the diverse clientele. We mostly rented boats and paddles for this but the folks that showed up with boats usually required a shut down to go watch.
Moon Lake was also fun to watch but Greenjeans liked to show up there as well and that made it hard to sip adult beverages and what’s the point of watching a ramp without some beer?
Moon Lake was also fun to watch but Greenjeans liked to show up there as well and that made it hard to sip adult beverages and what’s the point of watching a ramp without some beer?
Posted on 5/7/24 at 12:20 pm to cbree88
Fishing the Basin at Bell River Launch you can always count on commercial fishermen who believe the water is their first right and can drive to the ramp on the exit road to cut in front of everyone else waiting in line. Seen more than a few arguments from this.
Lake Fayette in Texas, since it is close to Houston/Katy area, always has the guy who buys his first boat and goes there to learn to use it. Almost every time we are there we have to either help load or unload their boat just so we can do the same with ours.
but in saying all this:
If you fish enough, eventually you will do something stupid at the launch yourself. .
Lake Fayette in Texas, since it is close to Houston/Katy area, always has the guy who buys his first boat and goes there to learn to use it. Almost every time we are there we have to either help load or unload their boat just so we can do the same with ours.
but in saying all this:
If you fish enough, eventually you will do something stupid at the launch yourself. .
This post was edited on 5/7/24 at 4:52 pm
Posted on 5/7/24 at 12:22 pm to cbree88
The best ones involve old boy teaching the wife to back it in...
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