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Posted on 7/29/21 at 5:34 am to Biganeau
Posted on 7/29/21 at 5:36 am to Biganeau
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I was pulling up to the dock in Lake Verret after fishing today. This poor guy took 30min to back his trailer up to pick his boat up. Too much to the right…too much to the left…jackknife…pull back up…repeat. Me and another old boy were shaking our heads laughing. You would think if you own a boat you should be able to back up like a pro. I’m glad I had 2 beers left in the ice chest. WTF
Subtle "I'm an absolute dick" brag.
Posted on 7/29/21 at 5:43 am to Biganeau
I’ve never understood the obsession with boat launch fails. Everyone had to back a boat into a launch for the first time or back up any trailer at some point for the first time. But people make fun of them like they are complete idiots.
Posted on 7/29/21 at 5:52 am to SixthAndBarone
All I know is Prairie Creek Marina, on Beaver Lake, has be come a shite show in the summertime.
I've made the decision to only fish in the fall, winter, and springtime. After that it gets too crowded and can take upwards of an hour to load the boat.
I feel bad for people that have trouble backing their trailer down the ramp(especially when there are 20 people waiting, but they need to do everyone a favor and practice.
I've made the decision to only fish in the fall, winter, and springtime. After that it gets too crowded and can take upwards of an hour to load the boat.
I feel bad for people that have trouble backing their trailer down the ramp(especially when there are 20 people waiting, but they need to do everyone a favor and practice.
Posted on 7/29/21 at 5:57 am to razorbackfan4life
On a lighter note..
We fish out of a Skeeter bass boat. Dad decided one day to buy a Tracker to fish the smaller lakes around Bella Vista.
It was the second or third time out and we unhooked the front of the boat. The boat ramp was a little steeper than the previous lakes we had fished. As he was backing me down into the water I felt a sudden acceleration. The boat slid off the trailer and scratched the fin on the bottom of engine.
Scared the shite out of me because I was looking backwards as it happened.
No more unhooking that boat until we are backed down to the water.
We fish out of a Skeeter bass boat. Dad decided one day to buy a Tracker to fish the smaller lakes around Bella Vista.
It was the second or third time out and we unhooked the front of the boat. The boat ramp was a little steeper than the previous lakes we had fished. As he was backing me down into the water I felt a sudden acceleration. The boat slid off the trailer and scratched the fin on the bottom of engine.
Scared the shite out of me because I was looking backwards as it happened.
No more unhooking that boat until we are backed down to the water.
Posted on 7/29/21 at 6:17 am to baldona
quote:
If you haven’t had a boating fail you haven’t boated long enough. But yeah lot of new boat owners out there these days, it takes practice to get good.
This...and patience is a virtue.
Posted on 7/29/21 at 6:36 am to kywildcatfanone
Thanks. This thread needs fail gifs.
Posted on 7/29/21 at 6:42 am to East Coast Band
quote:
This thread needs fail gifs.
I remember a thread a couple of years ago titled "Mistakes were made" about actual boat launch/retrailing fails; find that and bump it.
Posted on 7/29/21 at 2:32 pm to baldona
quote:
If you haven’t had a boating fail you haven’t boated long enough.
Years ago, we were staying outside PCB with a groups of friends over Memorial Day weekend.
I’m helping my buddy get his boat launched on Powell Lake, which he’d done several days earlier at the same launch with no problems.
I’m backing the boat and trailer down, he’s in the boat, when I hear and feel a huge scrape and all the sudden slam to a stop. Can’t reverse. Can’t pull forward.
Get out to see the wheels of the trailer hanging off the end of the launch and the frame resting on the concrete.
We didn’t realize the huge rainstorm the day before had significantly dredged out the usually narrow shallow inlet to the Gulf, dropping the water level several feet compared to his outing earlier in the week.
On top of that, the ramp was short and there was about a four foot drop off to the lake bottom at the end, which he didn’t see when the water was higher. And the middle of the ramp is scooped out, apparently we weren’t the first dipshits caught in this trap.
We are stuck STUCK. Doesn’t budge at all in 4 low. There are at least 10 boats in line at this point, Saturday morning of Memorial Day weekend. And they’re continuing to stack up.
After what felt like an hour, we finally got the damn thing out by putting the trailer jack stand all the way down, putting both of our tire jacks under the trailer frame, pulling his truck with my truck, and fricking gunning it on the count of 3.
Live and learn. We still laugh about now, but we were sweatin it that morning
This post was edited on 7/29/21 at 2:37 pm
Posted on 7/29/21 at 2:46 pm to Biganeau
I've been in a boat my entire life and was taught how to back up a boat trailer early on. When I see people at the ramp having a hard time i normally offer assistance. Sometimes they accept help and sometimes they don't. Best advice I can offer is find an empty ramp during the week and practice.
Posted on 7/29/21 at 2:58 pm to Wtodd
quote:
patience is a virtue.
I am far from the master of the launch but the one thing I was taught early on...
Get everything ready away from the launch
Move quickly getting up there
But once you are in the final back in phase, just go slow. If you make a mistake it is small and fixable. One clean slow approach takes much less time than two or three rapid screw ups. I back down those last fifteen yards at a snails pace.
Posted on 7/29/21 at 3:38 pm to Biganeau
Maybe it was his first time. And there is no such thing as an "old" boy. Your partner could be an "ole" boy though.
Posted on 7/29/21 at 3:54 pm to Jim Rockford
Bill Dance has to be the most unintentionally funny person on the planet.
Posted on 7/29/21 at 4:38 pm to Biganeau
quote:You live in Thibodaux, what the frick you know about swamp?
If I was out of beer I would have. Every man for himself in the swamp.
Posted on 7/29/21 at 4:59 pm to LC412000
OP, how many fish you caught?
Posted on 7/29/21 at 5:59 pm to fkmonark25
4 knot head bass and a few sacalait. Water was muddy.
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