re: Boat launch comedy

I had a 15' Carolina Skiff when I was about 16. Put the plug in the boat, launched it, ran around for a couple hours. Then I noticed it was getting really hard to get on plane. Took the gas lines apart, manually checked everything. I finally get back to the launch and get the boat out of the water and surely enough, I left the plug out of the space between the two hulls. That boat weighed about 3 times what it was supposed to.