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Posted on 6/15/14 at 8:36 am to JasonL79
Guys I once came upon a circling flat boat while I was out on a duck scout trip solo. As I got closer I realized the operator was being dragged under water behind the boat with his foot caught in a rope......no flailing, obviously had been there a while. Called sheriff and coast guard and they took over. No kill cord worn by operator, would have saved his life that day. Wear it !!
Posted on 6/15/14 at 12:06 pm to Tigerpaw123
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10 minute run straight north to heberts at 52 mph
Boss
No shite. Even he didnt know it would do that with 5 people and gear. Thank god the lake was unbelievably calm
Posted on 6/15/14 at 1:29 pm to Tigah D
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Guys I once came upon a circling flat boat while I was out on a duck scout trip solo. As I got closer I realized the operator was being dragged under water behind the boat with his foot caught in a rope......no flailing, obviously had been there a while. Called sheriff and coast guard and they took over. No kill cord worn by operator, would have saved his life that day. Wear it !!
This post was edited on 6/15/14 at 1:30 pm
Posted on 6/15/14 at 1:51 pm to JasonL79
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I've been in boats all my life and don't understand how you can fall out the boat while driving unless you are acting like an a-hole and/or drunk.
Hazards below he surface of the water for one. They are everywhere. If you think you know them all in your favorite lake or bayou, you are DEAD wrong.
Posted on 6/15/14 at 2:35 pm to thejudge
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Two other boats helped. Thank god my buddys boat hauls arse. We were doing 50+ loaded down heavy.
I believe one of those boaters may have been a buddy of mine
Posted on 6/15/14 at 2:48 pm to thejudge
Nice job.
I was always guilty of not wearing a kill switch or life jacket in my old bass boat. I changed my mind after test driving a few bay boats. I've been on plenty of bay boats in my life, but never drove one. I went to test drive one in Florida and dropped the sales guy off at the dock to get the truck. He told me to take it back out in the bay for a few more test runs. I then decided to see how it cornered like my bass boat at full speed and nearly threw myself out of the boat. It was stupid on my part and ever since I decided I needed to wear a kill switch and life vest. You never know how many stupid/inexperienced people are out on the water. I also give people on my boat a crash course in driving my boat in the event that something happens to me they can get us back to shore.
I was always guilty of not wearing a kill switch or life jacket in my old bass boat. I changed my mind after test driving a few bay boats. I've been on plenty of bay boats in my life, but never drove one. I went to test drive one in Florida and dropped the sales guy off at the dock to get the truck. He told me to take it back out in the bay for a few more test runs. I then decided to see how it cornered like my bass boat at full speed and nearly threw myself out of the boat. It was stupid on my part and ever since I decided I needed to wear a kill switch and life vest. You never know how many stupid/inexperienced people are out on the water. I also give people on my boat a crash course in driving my boat in the event that something happens to me they can get us back to shore.
Posted on 6/15/14 at 5:25 pm to Tigah D
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Guys I once came upon a circling flat boat while I was out on a duck scout trip solo. As I got closer I realized the operator was being dragged under water behind the boat with his foot caught in a rope......no flailing, obviously had been there a while. Called sheriff and coast guard and they took over. No kill cord worn by operator, would have saved his life that day. Wear it !!
this makes me sick...
Posted on 6/15/14 at 6:17 pm to JasonL79
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I've been in boats all my life and don't understand how you can fall out the boat while driving unless you are acting like an a-hole and/or drunk.
Hmmmm... really?
Posted on 6/15/14 at 6:19 pm to Grassy1
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really?
Young would be my guess, you?
Posted on 6/15/14 at 6:22 pm to QuietTiger
Must be.
ETA: or an owner of very slow boats
ETA: or an owner of very slow boats
This post was edited on 6/15/14 at 6:23 pm
Posted on 6/15/14 at 7:10 pm to thejudge
Going into boating from kayaking I saw real quick how much power the tiller handle on a mud motor has. I wear my kill switch on my life jacket. That way I have to plug it in to start the boat. Not the other way around. Get two birds in one stone that way. Life jacket and kill switch.
Posted on 6/15/14 at 7:19 pm to QuietTiger
I work close to the red and we are always getting people out of the river live and dead. People need to be more carefull and use there heads while in a boat!
Posted on 6/16/14 at 7:42 am to Grassy1
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quote:I've been in boats all my life and don't understand how you can fall out the boat while driving unless you are acting like an a-hole and/or drunk. Hmmmm... really?
Yes, really.
When I drive my boat, I'm holding on to my steering wheel on my center console. I have hit sand flats a bunch of time and never been close to falling in the water while driving the boat.
I grew up in Venice,LA part of my life and had a boat at the age of 12 (tiller steering outboard on a flatboat) and still have one 23 years later. I learned to drive a boat before I was 10 years old through my brothers and my relatives. My family grew up in pilottown and only had boats for transportation most of their life. My dad didn't have a driver license until he was in his mid 30's. I have never heard of anyone falling out of their boat while driving down there. There is a lot of hazards in Venice but it's mostly bad weather, fog during winter, logs/driftwood in spring/summer time, sand flats,etc.
When I'm driving my hands are on the steering wheel. If I am doing something in my boat where I'm not holding on to my steering wheel, my throttle is in neutral. I can understand other people falling out the boat but not the driver.
The only way I could see it happening if you were in the boat by yourself would be if you let it idle and walk away from the steering wheel to do something and fall or hit the throttle which throws you out. Then again, I'm not trying to make crazy turns or turning while going too fast like some people.
This post was edited on 6/16/14 at 7:44 am
Posted on 6/16/14 at 7:51 am to tigeryat
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Hazards below he surface of the water for one.
Just to add to this, don't wear waders in the boat either. Hit a stump in Felsenthal many years ago and flipped the boat ejecting me, my bro, and my hound. No kill switch, no life jackets, and wearing waders. Almost bit the dust that morning. Learned alot of lessons that morning.
Posted on 6/16/14 at 7:52 am to JasonL79
I agree with Jason. very hard to fall out of a boat that you are operating as long as your hands are on the wheel unless you hit a rig or something.
Posted on 6/16/14 at 7:56 am to JasonL79
Jason, trying to defend yor defenseless statement is a losing position. If you are near full speed in an average bay or flat boat and hit a submerged well pipe there is a good chance you would be ejected. All you experience cannot overcome the laws of physics.
Posted on 6/16/14 at 7:58 am to JasonL79
So your saying basically that if you have an accident, you believe your hand stregnth is strong enough to hold on? 
Glad you've never been in a bad boat accident but that is insane.
Glad you've never been in a bad boat accident but that is insane.
Posted on 6/16/14 at 8:13 am to Langston
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So your saying basically that if you have an accident, you believe your hand stregnth is strong enough to hold on? Glad you've never been in a bad boat accident but that is insane.
I never said it couldn't happen. Anything really can happen in the real world. An accident (hitting a well head or collission) is obviously a different case. It didn't seem like that was the case in the OP's first post and what this thread was originally about.
I was talking about every day boat driving situations.
The few people that I know that have hit submerged pipes or submerged logs didn't get catapulted though. It just tore their lower units off and obviously jerked the boat but they didn't fall out. But I'm sure if the situation was right it could happen.
This post was edited on 6/16/14 at 8:16 am
Posted on 6/16/14 at 8:15 am to MWP
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Hit a stump in Felsenthal many years ago and flipped the boat ejecting me
I did the same in the main ditch at DD on the Black River. Hit a tree that was just under the surface, straightened out a curve, smoked a tree. It launched 3 of us out. Luckily, we all missed the tree and landed on dry land.
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