I would have to say mine is waiting for the idiots that park their boat at the courtesy dock. While they wait for for the trailer to finally make it to the ramp. Only to find out they dont know how to back it down the ramp or even trailer a boat.
Last year a guy was in a larger, appeared to be new cigarette at the launch (I think it was a 38'), and left his drives down as he ripped the boat up the ramp and about 50' down the parking lot before realizing it, and blaming his g/f... If it didn't hurt so bad to see that big of a douchebag own that nice of a boat, it would have been HILARIOUS...
First one was "ME" being the "launch ramp idiot", luckily, we where launching at my cottage, so, it wasn't a public launch, had my 21ft Larson [previous boat] hooked to my 4 wheel drive Envoy, its POURING rain, but, it was 4pm Friday, and I was ITCHING to get out in the boat, so, I am backing it down the ramp, trailer gets back a fair ways into the water, I get out and undo the winch/strap and back a little farthur into the water, boat still isn't floating off trailer, hmmmmmmmm, decide to back a little FARTHUR into the water, STILL, not floating, it was at THAT point I realized that I hadn't undun the rear trailering straps! UGGHHHH!!!
No Problem, right? just pull boat out and undo the straps, jump into truck, put it in 4wd low, and sit there motionless as all FOUR tires sit and spin, unable to even MOVE trailer, much less pull it out of the water. On goes the scuba mask, and I "walk?" into water 6ft deep to undo straps, not the best way to Christan a new boat!
THE ALL TIME BEST!
A family are out boating and are having some "mysterious" mechanical problems, after 30 mins of so of "self diagnostic" they cant figure out whats wrong?
The family decide to pull into a local marina and ask if they can have a look at whats going on? The marina owner gets in the boat and starts it and notices it runs "fine", so, he attempts to go for a test drive, the boat will barely move?
The marina owner decides to stick his head over the side and have a look, he see's something in the water and leans over farthur and sticks this head in the water....
Comes up out of the water laughing so hard he can barely breath......He found the problem, get this!
The trailer was STILL attached to the bow eye!!!!!!!!
I cried when I heard the story, still cracks me up!
I once put a boat in the water without the drain plug.
I was in college and the father of a girl I was seeing had about an 18' tri-haul Glastron. Her parents were out of town, and we thought we should try to 'sneak' it out on the water one day.
I had been driving boats since I was age 6, so I thought no problem. The thing is, the only boat I knew was a 14' Aluminum with a 9hp Johnson. And no drain plug. So we go to the boat launch in Wayzata on Lake Minnetonka, and I proceed to slowly and kind-of awkwardly back down the ramp. I roll my jeans up and start unwinding the winch.
I get the boat off the trailer about six feet and my girlfriend, Stacy, says "it doesn't look right". I say "what doesn't look right?" "The way its floating, the back end is too low, did you put the drain plug in", she asks? I say, "what drain plug?"
About this time we are starting to attract some attention and even more musing eyes. Stacy yells, "put the drain plug in, its in the back of the boat." I hurl myself into the boat and trip and fall over all this stuff her Dad has in the boat. I looked everywhere, but can't find anything that looks like a drain plug.
So I jump out of the boat and started try and push it back onto the trailer, but it's too heavy! Now you have to understand that her Dad was kind-of a rough dude, and I don't think he really liked me dating his daughter, and now I might very well have sunk his boat! Full panic mode sets in!
At this point about four guys come over and basically take over the situation. The oldest guy (I swear he looked like Capt Ahab) told us to push and he cracked the winch. We got it back on the trailer, but now the old truck we had wouldn't pull it out! Capt Ahab hooked his F-250 4x4 to the front of our truck and pulled the whole mess off the ramp.
The water drained for a long time. Capt Ahab looked things over and said everything was fine, so Stacy and I never mentioned the 'incident' to her father. He used the boat the following weekend and never said anything was wrong, so I guess no damage.
To this day I check the drain plug prior to launch even if there is no reason it would have been removed. A lesson well learned that day.
I once put a boat in the water without the drain plug.
I was in college and the father of a girl I was seeing had about an 18' tri-haul Glastron. Her parents were out of town, and we thought we should try to 'sneak' it out on the water one day.
I had been driving boats since I was age 6, so I thought no problem. The thing is, the only boat I knew was a 14' Aluminum with a 9hp Johnson. And no drain plug. So we go to the boat launch in Wayzata on Lake Minnetonka, and I proceed to slowly and kind-of awkwardly back down the ramp. I roll my jeans up and start unwinding the winch.
I get the boat off the trailer about six feet and my girlfriend, Stacy, says "it doesn't look right". I say "what doesn't look right?" "The way its floating, the back end is too low, did you put the drain plug in", she asks? I say, "what drain plug?"
About this time we are starting to attract some attention and even more musing eyes. Stacy yells, "put the drain plug in, its in the back of the boat." I hurl myself into the boat and trip and fall over all this stuff her Dad has in the boat. I looked everywhere, but can't find anything that looks like a drain plug.
So I jump out of the boat and started try and push it back onto the trailer, but it's too heavy! Now you have to understand that her Dad was kind-of a rough dude, and I don't think he really liked me dating his daughter, and now I might very well have sunk his boat! Full panic mode sets in!
At this point about four guys come over and basically take over the situation. The oldest guy (I swear he looked like Capt Ahab) told us to push and he cracked the winch. We got it back on the trailer, but now the old truck we had wouldn't pull it out! Capt Ahab hooked his F-250 4x4 to the front of our truck and pulled the whole mess off the ramp.
The water drained for a long time. Capt Ahab looked things over and said everything was fine, so Stacy and I never mentioned the 'incident' to her father. He used the boat the following weekend and never said anything was wrong, so I guess no damage.
To this day I check the drain plug prior to launch even if there is no reason it would have been removed. A lesson well learned that day.
I think everyone has forgot the drain plug once in their life. I know it only took me one time to figure it out and it will never happen again.
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