What is the stupidest thing done IN your boat?
 

Stupid & Funny - Last Fathers day weekend was a really busy weekend on Lake Minnetonka and finding a launch with available parking was sparse but we found parking in an area unfamiliar to us. The wife dropped me in the drink and I sat around ideling/waiting to pick her up. After a while of just ideling I needed to rev the engine because it started to run a bit rough. SO I sped out to the bay and back. When I returned back to the dock to pick up the wife I had 2 sherrif boats ahead of me and one behind me that I didn't know about. The one behind me had called in for help thinking I was trying to ditch him so they started off kinda pissed @ me. The told me I was being pulled over for noise polution, I thought they were kidding and just wanted to see the boat (I never hit more than 3000 rpm and have crossed paths with these guys a number of times without incident). The cop told me he felt the engine beating on his chest from about 100ft away and that they needed me to pull up to their headquarters (which I did not realize was next to the launch) to test the boat. All of this was happening while the wife and dog stood on the dock watching. Anyways, it took the cops about 90 min to find their sound level meter and measuring stick to comply with testing procedures and meanwhile I had made friends with the 5 cops down at the dock with me. When they finally got everything ready to test, my boat would not start...the starter had gone bad. Stupid - launching near the cop headquarters in a boat w/ 4" pipes straight out the back w/ no form of muffler. Funny - the cops could not test my boat and because I had befriended them, they let me go :D (but they got even watching me drag my boat from their dock back to the launch...they would not tow me, they did offer me a paddle though). Stupid - this triggered the cops to head out and test a lot of other boats, I heard they gave out about 50 tickets that day :-(

I have nothing to add but that is typical Tonka cops for you. I use to snowmobile a lot down there as we had a friends farm right by the lake. Never would go over 55mph as they would hide and clock you in the channels. It got to a point I would put a go pro on my speedo so when stopped I could show them I wasn't speeding. I will say most were nice and let me off, I think they were checking for drunks more then anything

Too many dumb thinks to count...sorry.
I'd be typing all day long.
Hopefully some more by this weekend:)

Buying it.

I thought it would be fun to go chasing wakes as jet skiis do. I caught one off a pretty big boat, it probably launched me 10ft in the air and went at lleast 30 ft forward. That was all fun, then I looked over at the wife and realized that was about the stupidist thing I could have done.

Her name was Lola.....she was a dancer.

Putting props on wrong sides once for one......then Rebecca, Natasha, Geneva, Crystal and the worst of all Nicki the Skank whose 'presence only" cursed my Talon instantly. Once getting Nicki and her poor suitor off of my cat I promptly hit a submerged log shearing the drive almost completely off the midsection. Needless to say I have been skank free boating with no problems for almost two years.

Ya know, wood is the weirdest damn material. Put some water in it, it turns to mush. Leave it submerged in water and it becomes a rock. I dunno.

Anyway, dad found one of those submerged petrified tree stumps with his old 20' Maxum runabout and gouged the hell out of the hull. It leaked like a little, but wasn't really worth properly fixing so it'd get an annual epoxy patch and that worked until it didn't. Then he gave it to me. Hell ya, I'm single, 24, work had moved me to the lake house and dad gives me a free (leaky) boat. Life is good, right?

Didn't realize how bad it leaked. One day I park it at the party beach and go off drinking for a while and when I return it had sunk. Now it was pulled up to the beach, so it didn't sink very far, but I was lucky the breather wasn't shotgunning lake water.

Hell ya, my boat is cool, it came with a parking brake! Thanks dad! Went and drank some more beer, the day ended, I bilged/floated my semi-submersible Maxum and drove her home like a pro.

But the dumb thing, well the dumb thing is that I did it again the next day! :)

Her? Ray Davies said Lola was a man!! Lol!

Skanks are one of the best parts of boating.

It what separates us from the animals.

Don't judge me!!

A mooning incident gone awry left me with a scar on my hip from one of my newly sharpened propellers one year. That was stupid at its finest......

One that comes to mind for me was the time I took my new In-Laws out thru Cape May NJ inlet during a very rough day. Got 1/4 way thru the inlet and was getting slammed by swells big enough to bury the boat. Get into a trough a we couldn't see anything but a wall of water. Look at my in-laws and thought I might be divorced the next day! Worst part was, the swells rolling in were too big for me to turn the boat around so we had to ride it all the way out and gradually turn back in. I also had my new wife's 4 yr. old niece in the boat too. That was not a fun ride home!!

stupidest thing I've ever done in my boat? the ex-wife!

I took my 30 velocity through a s turn tidal creek that I use to bomb through with my jet boat all the time, but wound up high and dry on the marsh. Also wound up on front page of local paper a week later. That creek is now a no wake zone. I didn't start that movement but unfortunately , my antics put the last nail in it. I grew up skiing and horsing around there. I'm sorry for the people that will never be able to, partly because of me.

My wife would have the habit of going into the cuddy if the air was a little too chilly to ride in the cockpit as I would run the boat at speed... So a couple of years back we take the boat on vacation to Florida in February. We are now in Daytona and its a bit chilly.. Find the inlet and I decide that I want to take the boat out into the ocean. Why not. The wife, girlfriend at the time, slowly goes forward and closes the cuddy door. Figure she knows me well enough and is heading below to avoid the chilly air.. Well, we hit the chop in the inlet and the chop on the Atlantic. Bounce around for a short little trip then come back into the calm of the Intercoastal. At this point I open up the cuddy door to check on the wife. It looks like a bomb went off in there. Even have the toilet seat on the floor of the cabin.. At this point I see the legs of my wife as she is sitting on the couch on my side.. Without a word being said, I slowly close the cuddy door..... Turns out she went in to use the toilet.. Got a good washing of her privates prior to being bounced out of the head, toilet seat following.... If it wasn't for having ChrisK along as a witness, she probably would have committed homicide.

But she still married me.

Do you have any pics of these skanks???

They go by the nickname of "Claymates"!!

Forgot the drain plug on the Scarab in Florida.........doh

1996 My brother bought a new boat 23 ft with a 454 had all the options silent choice included anyways - it was very windy day - he back the boat down the ramp with me it to start it up and for him to go park the truck. - the waves pushed the boat off the trailer while I was trying to start it. the engine would not start again brand new boat keep in mind, so the boat starts to head for the very rocky side of the banks. My brother jumps in the water along with both us yelling at eachother, he swims pretty darn far to grab his boat just barely saving it from the rocky bank as I am trying to figure out why no start. I am back at the engine looking at everything as quickly as I can trying to figure out why NO start.

The problem was - I forgot to check to see if the lanyard was hooked - nope MY BAD as it was not even in sight. Boy did we look very stupid that day. My brother was pissed at me. I found the lanyard in the glovebox and hooked it, the engine started right up. I have never made that mistake again EVER. I have 2 more stories of what inthe hell was I thinking.

Where to start....
Had an engine rebuild that was supposed to add a couple hundred horsepower, boat went 1 mph faster. Got pissed off after the second time out, launched it and held it on the wood to show the boat I was pissed. 4 mile tow back drinking captain with my buddies throwing cans of Coke to me.

New drive, new cam and rest of the season was great.

Threw a rod in eastern Bahamas. Cam back 200 miles on one engine at 7mph.....took forever and had to cross the gulfstream....was hairy and in retrospect super stupid.

Just this morning I had a moment , last night was cleaning the belt dust off of my flame arrestor's and noticed buildup all over the throttle blades ........well to really get them clean I had to open the blades all the way , finished up put the arrestor's back on and went to bed

Turned the key this morning and just about came out of my skin , I shut it down quick but fuel injected motors will get after it real fast