Thanx buddy!
 

I pull up to a restaurant dock and try to tie off when I get a few guys asking the usual 100 question (thats is getting real old btw(no it doesn`t have a 454) and one fella unties my rope and tries to pull me back so my bumper is even with the pole.. well the boat is still tied in the rear and it hits the a metal beam .How do you not kill a guy like this??


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That sucks. At least he could have offered to pay for damages.

I guess he was bigger than you?? :angry-smiley-038:

Oh dude!! Wtf!!

Sucks

i dont let other people fug with my dock lines... too many retards out there

Had a similar thing happen in the spring. Wife and I pull up to restaurant on windy day, with current in the river. A couple of guys come down to help. My wife throws them ropes but says "don't pull them, he will dock with engines" (she is trained well). So I get close and shut it down, guy on the back rope pulls swim platform under dock. I saw it coming and jumped off but he pulled through me pushing the boat against him. I still thanked him, even though the metal dock tore through the clear and paint on the port side rear :/

ouch!

My wife has instructions NOT to give lines to anyone we do not know. It amazes me how many of them actually get pissed at her.

Padraig

I'm the same way, if you can't properly dock the boat, don't! My wife knows the same set of rules! No lines thrown and I will bring it in! If people go for my lines I flip out worse than if they start "throwing lines" at my wife if you get what I'm saying!

God protects fools, drunks, and children....

That bites. Stuff like that changes the tone for an entire evening. (Or three).

Sucks Dan.

Sum biotch....http://i1243.photobucket.com/albums/...p/sign0065.gif

I've got more damage on my boats from people "trying to help" then I have ever done on my own.

LIttle bit of red nailpolish and she'll be good as new Dano!

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Famous last words = "that'll buff right out"...

That really sucks man...

Sorry about your collision. Next time grab the dock line he's holding and pull. I love helping out any fellow boater coming into dock. I always let the captain control everything even if I'm holding a dock line. A lot of it is common sense though. My favorite past time would be to help the dock boys at The Casino. They were great. You need to get out but your up front with two rows of boats behind you. Done.

On my second trip ever with the Ol I was at a fuel dock fueling up when a fellow boater came up.....he was very enthusiastic and had a ton of questions as it was the first Outerlimts he had seen in person....when we got ready to leave he wanted to help with the lines so he started untying a spring line that was attached to the boat by a pin cleat.....he unties the the line from the dock and then for whatever reason he unhooks the pin cleat from the boat....so now the boat is being pulled away from the dock by the current and the guy still has the line......he decides to throw the line (pin cleat and all) to the boat....it goes over everyones head, lands on the engine hatch which is painted......somehow the pin cleat managed to chip the paint in four different spots. and these are like 1/2" chips in three different colors,

Thanks a lot Buddy

^^^^^^^^ It may have been an intentional act by a disgruntled Fountain owner.

i drop the kids off at a super easy spot.... they walk to where im going to dock, and they can tend the lines for us... solves many problems.

After that S happened to my boat, I wouldve held my hand out to him and said "Will that be cash or credit card?"

I don't mind helping people tie up, and let the driver do the work and hold the rope until hes done.

Unless I can tell he/she couldnt park a tricycle in a bus lot, im out.

Just remember, "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished".

Never Let anyone help! UNLESS It's a chick handing you a rope or bumper. Have you not learned anything! Your boat has to park next to the dock with no help . Period! Tell him yeah it has a 454 . If you were in Cali . I would fix it for ya

Dan, I'd be glad to come up with some JB weld and krylon spay cans.

An Apache would have taken a chunk out of the dock... :evilb:

I think everyone prefers to dock and handle the bumbers/lines themselves but, unfortunately there is going to be situations where you wish you had help. A few places i like to go to have a good current and the late afternnoon wind is always blowing. I dont care how good you're, when the nose of 40' get the wind and you're backing it between a dock and boat, good luck without help. Thats why i like to have atleast a couple good helpers with me.

No matter what any damage SUCKS that wasnt caused by you!

Beating the guys azz would only cause Dan more friggin problems. The guy would prolly end up owning a nice red flat deck....not to mention the bloody mess on the boat!...... BUT, might have felt good to call him a flippin moron in front of everyone! LOL

Man, makes ME wanna cry!

It's hard went you come to the docks, alot of "drunk" people wanna help..........but............and you don't want to look that sterotypical Ahole fast boater either.............so generally when you're in that "what do I do" decision process, bad things happen!
Sorry about the boat dude, at lease it's just the corner and not the whole side!

Joe. Stop it short of the dock. Leave it running and proceede to the part of the boat that will touch the dock first. Then all of a sudden your Hot woman will spring into action and say. "Heres a bumper and a rope my love. If you need anything else i will be downstairs in thd lounge *