Scarriest Moment in a Boat

trying to cross Toledo during a storm in a 15' Alumna weld with a 55 on the back. We had to stop behind an island and bale water. Twice.

Almost sunk my boat in GI. Rogue waves in camanada pass while i was anchored. Pretty horrible shite. Good thing i was quick witted about it and started feeding out anchor rope to keep it from going completely submarine. Had 5 or 6" of water on the floor when it was over. No wind that day and no boats passed. I still dont know what caused them. Popped up about 20 yards infront the boat.

Was going to timbilair island on a bass master, forgot gps, compas broke, got caught in freak random storm, was lost, 3-4's coming over ever corner of the boat(flats boat pretty much) Luckily found another boat out there who knew what direction land was, it was just about as dark as night. We never did put life jackets on though "bc it's bad luck"


My buddy whose boat it was just kept yelling "what the frick do I do?????" and all I had to say was "nothing now, fricking nothing, just pray we don't sink"

Banging this girl on Red river in my Jon boat while frog gigging when the Game Wardens spot light hit us.

Huge swells in Chatham Straight, didn't think we would make it. Had to hole up in Baranof Warm Springs Bay (maybe the most beautiful place I have ever seen) which turned out to be a blessing though.

Sea lion buzzing my sea cycle (technically a boat) in Lynn Canal.

Running across lake cat after thunderstorms all night and morning in a 16' cajun special. Already trying to avoid spearing a wave and flooding the boat, run through some grass, intakes clogged, engine overheats, alarm goes off and engine dies. Wouldn't start back up, wind was picking up and you could see a sick storm coming across Salvador. After a couple minutes I got the motor started again and we made it back to the launch just in time while the waves kicked our arse. I was shitting myself thinking I was about to have to ride out that storm in a boat on that shallow arse lake.



Second one, we got to the spillway during a storm, it had been raining all night. After about an hour it stopped raining, so we launched and took off. fished for a while, caught a few bream, started to run across grand lake right as a lightning storm hit. Turned right around and ran back to the launch in the rain in an aluminum boat with lighting popping wayyyy too close.

I now quit fishing when I see lightning. I can deal with the rain, but frick lightning.

I don't frick around with lightning either, way to many close calls in a flat boat and on land.

That time in the spillway we came around a turn and I felt the hair on my neck stand up right before one of the bolts came down. Not fun.

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I've got one of those too. Did you know that sometimes your line won't come down out of the sky?

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Ummm, no thanks

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Catch a chine or something and turn sideways. I mean sideways where port is up and starboard is down. It was so scary I don't really remember what all happened.

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yep,exactly like that.
Lost all steering and were headed directly towards a barge moored to the shoreline of an already narrow bayou.
Scary shite man.Evidently my cousin had been on a tear about squeezing out 1-2 mph more out of his already stupid fast boat.
Changed about 4 props,had custom grinds done to one,cupped and shite.Started fricking with his manual jack plate a bunch.
The final straw was when dude put some sort of trim extenders that made the motor trim out more.
Well,it was almost a deadly mistake.
He now has a 4 blade and the boat only does 72 mph.