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re: boat dock bloopers
Posted on 8/20/10 at 8:57 am to wickowick
Posted on 8/20/10 at 8:57 am to wickowick
The only good one I have is when my FIL was testing his flare gun after discovering his dry box wasn't so dry (plus they were expired) and a private launch. He probably had never shot one before either.
He launched a flare and while messing with the gun for the second shot, didn't pay attention to where the first one went. He then shot the second one and saw it went in the water. My buddy looks up from whatever he was doing to see the marsh burning...and yells out about it.
He and I jump in the FIL's boat and drop it off the lift to go over there asap to try to put it out. We get there and are using a five gallon bucket in assembly line fashion to fill up from the side of the boat and passing it to toss on the fire as fast as we can. Then my buddy notices the water in the boat was up to his ankles, so we had two major eff ups.
We got the fire out and the boat didn't sink, but there sure was a lot of panic there for about 3-5 minutes. Needless to say, the father in law didn't have anything to say then or since, about forgetting to put the plug in the boat.
He launched a flare and while messing with the gun for the second shot, didn't pay attention to where the first one went. He then shot the second one and saw it went in the water. My buddy looks up from whatever he was doing to see the marsh burning...and yells out about it.
He and I jump in the FIL's boat and drop it off the lift to go over there asap to try to put it out. We get there and are using a five gallon bucket in assembly line fashion to fill up from the side of the boat and passing it to toss on the fire as fast as we can. Then my buddy notices the water in the boat was up to his ankles, so we had two major eff ups.
We got the fire out and the boat didn't sink, but there sure was a lot of panic there for about 3-5 minutes. Needless to say, the father in law didn't have anything to say then or since, about forgetting to put the plug in the boat.
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Posted on 8/20/10 at 9:08 am to xenon16
Go sit out on the deck at Fred's on the Amite and watch people land their boats. Mid to late afternoon is best. Half of them are drunk and the husband/wife teams are the best. 9 out of 10 end up argueing.
Posted on 8/20/10 at 9:13 am to xenon16
Then there was this time.... not really at the boat dock but still pretty bad.
Was searching for decoys that someone had left out overnight in the broken marsh before daylight in the fog. It was about 70 degrees till the sun came up.
Navigated right into a shallow mud flat at a low speed and couldn't see what I was doing (my navigator on the bow was from Alabama and wasn't familiar with LA marsh.) Needless to say we were fairly stuck.... he jumped out to try to push and sunk up to his shoulderblades in slop (not further b/c he held on to the side.) The motor just dug a hole behind us.
Next thing you know, a storm blows in, tide drops out and we look like this boat has wheels. We started in lightweight clothes and dry, and the temp dropped to about 40-45 degrees and started raining. Talk about miserable. We had several people hunting around us try to pull us out, but couldn't get close enough to even throw us a line. They did throw us a jug of bloody marys though.
We got out by means of an airboat, and it took some work to do it with the vacuum on the bottom of the boat and all. That's me in the back looking miserable and my buddy from AL in the front, laughing at me along with the guy who took the picture. The blind is up only to block the wind. No way were we getting anything we shot...
Was searching for decoys that someone had left out overnight in the broken marsh before daylight in the fog. It was about 70 degrees till the sun came up.
Navigated right into a shallow mud flat at a low speed and couldn't see what I was doing (my navigator on the bow was from Alabama and wasn't familiar with LA marsh.) Needless to say we were fairly stuck.... he jumped out to try to push and sunk up to his shoulderblades in slop (not further b/c he held on to the side.) The motor just dug a hole behind us.
Next thing you know, a storm blows in, tide drops out and we look like this boat has wheels. We started in lightweight clothes and dry, and the temp dropped to about 40-45 degrees and started raining. Talk about miserable. We had several people hunting around us try to pull us out, but couldn't get close enough to even throw us a line. They did throw us a jug of bloody marys though.
We got out by means of an airboat, and it took some work to do it with the vacuum on the bottom of the boat and all. That's me in the back looking miserable and my buddy from AL in the front, laughing at me along with the guy who took the picture. The blind is up only to block the wind. No way were we getting anything we shot...
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