Scooter

Tells your wife how good she looked, and he doesn't drink. Can see if a friend is all ******up, when you drink judgement goes out the window honest mistake but not sober.

Ernest T Bass

I have a dove hunt on my farm every year. I have had big problems with that. Can't tolerate it on the boat though... too small!



Pretty much what I told my buddy. I put in 250 bucks in fuel and you buy the beer, drinks, ice, etc. None have problems with it.

Short story: I was lucky enough to go for a boat ride once in a 46' Skater with a turbine. Ran up to 170mph or so. My payment to get a ride was to wash it after we got through. I thought that was a deal of a lifetime! One of the reasons was Howard Arneson was the pilot!!!

s022mag

A lot of the pet peeves mentioned I agree with, like picking up after your self on my boat, keeping you beer down so the Boat Patrol doesn't see it, and shoes on the vinyl. But my #1 pet peeve and I can't believe no one else has mentioned it is the unexperienced boater.

It's bad enough when they sit first in line at the boat ramp and don't tell anyone that there waiting for the inside lanes because there the only ones with docks, while the outside lanes are empty. Then they back there boat off and leave it tied up to the dock instead of taking the 30 extra seconds and moving it to the courteous docks. How about trusting or teaching one of the 10 passengers to hang out in the no wake while you park the car.

And the guy that comes to the swimming hole without any buoys or tie up ropes, not to mention he's got a group of people that are clueless about boat courteousy.

I can fix all the pet peeves on my boat, I don't have any control over others and that's my biggest peeve.

jaxon

sounds like fun, then everyone wonders why you left them.....

low_psi

A few years back when I had my Baja 250 Force, The first weekend I had been cleared to go back boating by my back surgeon.. We were backed up to a beach, anchor off the bow and a shore spike on the stern. Siting in my chair on the beach and watch this dumb ass and has gigantic wife (and what seemed like a litter of kids) back up to the beach right next to my boat and the. Litterly dropped the anchor off the bow as the drive was already burried in the sand. Well there was a nice current and a decent breeze, so it didn't take long before the bow was heading toward my boat. So I yelled to them to watch out and not hit my boat. Them the fat a$$ yells at me "why don't you get up off your lazy ass and help". I responded by stating, "I am not here to insure you have fun and safe day on the water. I am also not a f-ing valet. If you can't safely back your boat in with out hitting other boats, do like the rest have done and beach the bow. And do you see this giant f-ing black support around my mid section? Its not a weight lifting belt (my back brace, because I just had back surgery). So I am not going to jump into the water and put myself between my boat and your dumb asses". They then proceeded to pull anchor, head down the beach farther and did it all over again, until they finally realized it wasn't in their limited skill set to back a boat into a beach properly.. How hard is it to understand an encore will not hold your boat directly under your boat? When I back in I drop my anchor a good 20+ feet out, back in until close to shore, shut it off, jump out and pull it in. Have a passenger up front tie off the front anchor when I say, then set the shore spike and tie it up to the transom cleat, and done.

V.I. Outlaw

If i had a dollar for everytime......

snapmorgan

iTrader: (2)

In this order
(1) people who back down the ramp and then begin loading the boat with coolers, poeple, dogs and whatever else they can find to hold me up.
(2) spray sun screen: It goes everywhere except on their body
(3) fellow boaters that don't have enough anchor. I can't count the times that I have had 4 boats tied to mine because their anchor won't hold.
(4) Boaters who cannot load a boat on a trailer. Really, my wife can do it and she can barely drive a car.

VtSteve

I can't smother them all with a pillow, so I listed my boat for sale. I give up.

Rwbrew3

Too funny!! My new boat rule!!!!!

f_inscreenname

Strangers asking for rides. At the boat show or something is expected. At the local watering hole and I've never met you... hummmmmm.