STUPIDEST thing you have ever done, while boating...
 

so who's fallen in the water at their dock ???

last night I pulled a doozy,,,, cleaned the entire boat, 303'd the upholstery, went to put the cover on, was kneeling on the dock reaching to snap the cover over the swim platoform,, (note to self,, 303 protectant and dew on the cover make one slick surface ) anyway, hand slipped off and into the water,, luckily my nose was there to break my fall,,, ( note to self,,, your nose is NOT a good part of your body to break a fall,,, you will most likely BREAK your NOSE :stupid: ),, anyway, the DUMBEST thing is I did it again,, yup, slipped again,, this time I ducked,, ( see I am paying attention) and barrel rolled into the water,,, so I managed to skin my knee, raspberry my chest, cut my finger, get a lump on my nose and a bump on my head,,, all I could do was lay on the dock and LMMFAO ! the soggy ride home sucked...

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LMAO :eek: People at work are asking me what's so funny I'm laughing so hard while reading your story. Glad to hear you were not seriously injured.

Don't know if it helps but 2 weeks ago I was cleaning the deck. Fresh wax and soapy water is another deadly combination. Slipped on the rise down the center of the deck and jammed my bare foot into one of the deck hatches and broke a toe! It still hurts when I'm walking.

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Thanks... yup,, it's all fun and games until someone breaks a nose on a swim platform... :D:D

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So how many beers did you drink while you were cleaning? :drink:

I fell off the swim platform last year while the boat was on the trailer. Hit my leg on my labbed prop. Put a hugh gouge in my leg. All they could do at the hospital was just bandage it up, there wasn't enough skin left to sew up. Now I have a nice 6" scare as a daily reminder.

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It was the 80's and if I recall, her name was Mary :) oh sorry, you said thing didn't you ;)

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Thats the same question my wife asked,,, The ride home went something like this ( nextel's ),,, are you on your way home,, no, i'm on my way to the hospital,,, WHAT !!!,, what happend,, I think I broke my nose,,, HOW ???,, I used it to break my fall,,, FALL FROm WHAT ??, the dock,,, YOU FELL ON THE DOCK ??, no not exactly, WELL WHERE DID YOU FALL ??, well, luckily the second time the water broke my fall,,,, YOU FELL IN THE WATER ?? kinda,,, but only after cracking my head on the swim platform,, I THOUGHT YOU FELL ON THE DOCK ???, alright,, how many beers did you have ??? NONE I SWEAR,, HMMMMMM,, atleast if I had had a couple of beers my nose wouldn't hurt so bad this morning,, :D:D

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Stupidest?

Buying the first boat.

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WHILE BOATING !!! means you already made that mistake... :p :p :D

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At least you did'nt get seriously hurt... and you can laugh about it :D

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I 'm just getting back onto my chair from LMAO
great story sorry about your nose.

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The second, third, forth and fifth boat then.

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I guess some guys NEVER learn... :stupid: :D :D

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If we did'nt have boats... then we could'nt have all this fun :rolleyes: :D

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Taking non boating people on the boat...it is worse than babysitting. :rolleyes:

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#1: Buying stuff based on price instead of quality. R-E-A-L-L-Y dumb.
#2: Tried to save a docking attempt gone wrong by applying more power.
#3: Disabled the boat to work on an engine before insuring that the anchor had a good set.
#4: Headed off to a Poker Run 3 hours away knowing I had a "slight" problem with a battery switch.
#5: GLH had this one - Bought boats #2, #3, #4, and #5.
#6: Already thinking about which boat I want to be boat #6.

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Picked up two models at Pier 34 in NYC, took pictures. Wife found them.....

Naturally if I still had them, the pics, they would be posted in the uncensored section :D

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I think we have all learned the buying something based on price trick. You get what you pay for, I no longer shop price, just service and quality. That alone is enough work. My boat #2 was my undoing, almost soured me forever on go fast boats.

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This didnt happen to me but a buddy of mine. First time on a boat and first time at LOTO!!! He is so sensory overloaded that he cant think straight most of the day.....anyway we give these two girls a ride back to TanTara resort and pull up to the docks for what i hopeing to be a touch and go.......but this brainiack decides he needs to say good bye to the girls :D He hops on the rear corner of the sun deck and grabs the dock........the boat is SLOWLY drifing....the girls get off and he starts talking and trying to keep the boat in place.........boat starts drifting farther away fromm dock......dummy starts to extend his arms and then legs.....then body......next thing ya know i look and he is COMPLETELY HORIZONTAL!!! It looked like a cartoon character holding on for dear life with his fingers and toe's!!! LMAO! ........then the inevitable........SPLASH!!!!! and he comes to the surface with this look of terror and disbeliefe of what just happened.............we still laugh our a$$'s off talking about it :D :D :D

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I would like to know who the Genius is who first thought it would be a good idea to put an anchor locker at the end of a long, pointy, waxed, slippery piece of fiberglass, while bouncing around in wavy seas, with no grab handle ???

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I fell off my boat on my 10 yr high school reunion. Broke my left foot and had to have a friend drive the black corvette convertible with 6 spd I had (only till we sold the car, I was in the biz-demo).

5yrs ago a HTM dealer's 24' with 800hp I was on and dunked with office clothes, tie and wingtips. Trying to be a hero and leaped to the dock. Wingtips took like 2 weeks to dry. They kind of felt funny also.

There's a lot more but I don't want to bore you.

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i hit the same wake and nothing happend to me...

LMAO glad your ok put your nose up and rest it.
see ya out on the water.hopefully not in it..........
sonic358-05

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who would have thought you needed a life-line jacket and tether while standing on the dock.. Must have been that damn steppd hull planking they used on the docks, that caused my wipe out.. :D:D: There I was just standing on the dock minding my own business when it just slipped out from under me without any warning... :rolleyes:

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1. Inviting someone on dads family to go for a ride.
2. After the bad experience, inviting the same person to come again.

First time, a wire behind the kill switch came loose, second the boat got a little too wet.... Thank god for insurance.

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Letting my buddies fat wife take a piss down below on the porta potti.She was only used to waves of fat on her, not the waves in the water. Pissed all over the carpet. Should have made her go in the water, but did not have a crane on the boat to get her back in again.

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I alluded to this incident once in an earlier thread but I may as well elaborate a bit.
Summer of 2000 and I had just hit Lake Erie with my latest Rice Hauler. A 2000 Single Step Top Gun.
I have a date with me and I am hoping to impress her and everyone else within eyesight with my matching cig shirt, swim shorts, windbreaker, shoes, towels, key floaters, etc. and oh yeah the boat too.
We head out to one of the major performance hot spots on Lake Erie's kelly's Island. The Casino Restaurant. The Casino has it's own boat basin and the front row is reserved only for Offshore performance boats. This is only my second or third time there but I am one of the newest Cig's and so nattily attired in matching shirt, shorts, and shoes, that they dock us up right in front with The outdoor tiki bar and restaurant looking down not 5 feet above us onto the GLEAMING nose of my newest expression of virility and boating prowess. At 5'8" and 170lbs. wet (yes this all is leading somewhere) I am a STUD as I cooly follow my date and walk off the boat and onto the dock.
I spend a relaxing day discussing the virtues of EVERYTHING Cigarette. She spends the day wishing I would just shut up already. As the afternoon wanes on I am sure that everyone within earshot now believes that I bleed Cig red and black, and could captain a boat to the moon if I so desired.
I decide that it is time to head for home and round up my date and as the assembled cocktail hour throng of people watch and listen,(it seemed like there were at least a couple of hundred there) I cooly tell her that proper boating etiquette DEMANDS that we walk across the other 2 two boats swim platforms that we are rafted too and then onto our waiting TOP GUN.
I casually follow her scantily clad bottom and instruct her to hand me the stern line.......
The next thought that I had was that the water was unusually cold and clear and I wonder to myself if anyone saw me go in. Hopfully not. Maybe I could just hold my breath underwater until they close for the night? Who would be the wiser. As I contemplate the relative merits of drowning vs. crawling out I unfortunately float to the surface and one of the attentive Dock Jocks reaches in and hauls me out to the uproar of the crowd and my date.
You really cannot leave quick enough after a stunt like that with all your coolness and panache washed off and lying at the bottom of the lake. The cold water squelching in your shoes and your shirt and windbreaker sticking to you. But the worst part is that at least once a year someone mentions that they were there and that it was one of the funniest things that they have ever seen. I just try and agree and hope that by next season they will have all forgotten.
best,
Rice Hauler

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Running out of gas and getting towed in by a pontoon boat rates pretty high.

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Had the boat loaded with cocktails and girls and forgot the music in the truck at the launch.

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running out of gas 30 feet from the gas dock, during a poker run, with the tide going out, and having to get towed in by fish and game.

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In my early youth, when my "performance boat" was a 15' runabout with a weak 65hp Johnson outboard, I headed out in front of the entire family to take a ride. My stallion was docked ever so perfectly to illustrate just how competent this 10 year old boater was. Since old reliable always starts on the first try, I untied the ropes and shoved off. . .

Problem is, I stayed on the dock as if someone else was taking her out. Now I'm standing there watching my beauty float away from the dock and I quickly ponder, "do i jump in the water and swim for her or jump for the bow." Well, as my chest hits the deck and my legs go underneath, my torso reminds me just how painful it is to pinch skin between hull and bone. Fortunately, the searing pain downed out the rousing applause.

Needless to say, I almost pulled the plug and rode her down.

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i was at a fun event everyone was sterned in,started getting late and was geting dark, i thought wow i have these cool lights in the bilge lets open the motor hatch and turn it on, those motors sure look cool with the blue glowing lights,so i did. and now in my finest duds fountain shirt tommy bahama shorts etc i am walking on the edge of the boat working my way towards the swim platform with cell phone in one hand and coke and a beer in the other wallet etc on me,, hmm not holding on to anythng,, dew has a way of making waxed f-glass slick!! zing... there i go between the boats splash doh!!! i couldnt beleive it.. wow do i feel sober boy its cold, could be that its beginnig of april.. i saved the phone beer and coke gone,,
have u ever tried to climb up the side of an offshore boat.. well for some reason the embarasment and the chillyness i was like superman hoping no one saw me. the only damage i did was to myself crwling up the side of the boat i managed to remove the skin on my shins.
a change of clothes and a towel i am good to go back to the bar with my new nickname, (splash)..
memories..

last year all these guys came up from so calif and wanted to see the delta before thebig poker run.. i big shot said come on we can jump in my boat and we can go for a little ride,, 1 of the guys said hey how we doing on fuel.. Mr big shot No problem these gauges arent right see this one is 3/4 and that gauge is not right as cant be 1/4.. about an hour into the ride hmm what do u think happend,, mr big shot now has to idle on one for 2.5 hrs to get his guests back with no beverages in 95 degree wheather,, boy did i look like a hero..

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It was the first time that I had my wife help me launch the boat. I backed down the ramp, got everything set to that once I got the boat off the trailer she could pull straight out. Evrything goes as planned until I realize that I pulling away from the ramp without the plug. I proceed to scream at my wife to back the trailer in while going as fast as I can in circle to keep as much water as possible from flowing in. After what seemed to be 30 minutes (in reality she did a good job and it took 2 minutes) I finally got the boat on the trailer and told her to pull it out. Oops, now I forgot the lower unit was still down. When all was done, it took a while to pump out the water and I had some nice damage on my lower unit. And to top it all off, it happened within in feet of a company picnic that was in full swing.

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I can think of many. And they all seem to start with "I had a little too much to drink and.......:blaster:

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Almost, but since you remimded us. :D That was I think one of the first times I've ever been to the Casino. If It makes you feel better not everyone saw it. I was in the bathroom. :rolleyes: :drink:

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The truest statement I have ever read on this board. Mitch you are SO right.

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LOL! :D :D
Not really me or while boating ,,, but still qualifies anyway .... I owned a classic '72 18' Wellcraft Airslot, pseudo tri-hull (no steps), completely overpowered with a '78 175HP BlackMax Merc, for about 3 years. By year #3 I decided it was no longer worth the expense to take this beauty out of the water for the winter, plus who doesn't like taking a little spin in the middle of December or January in frigid NJ, right???

Sitting peacefully in the backyard, waiting for spring thaw, each day I remind my wife, who keeps asking me "is it OK to leave in the water?" .... "Oh Yeah honey, no prob, as long as the ice doesn't get tooooo thick around the hull" One day, after a good run of cold days, I just got out of the shower and walk around to the double glass sliders in my birthday suit. There I see the love of my life ((who, BTW, not only does things like this for me, but is a complete J*E*T*S and YANKS FANatic and can cook too! hehe)) standing outside with a pitchfork reaching down and breaking the ice around the boat! WOW what a girl! Sooo excited seeing this, I turn around to go upstairs and wait to warm her up, and I see her struggling with an unusually thick piece of ice!!??? .... you guessed it .... once it broke thru she went tumbling right into the lagoon! :eek: :eek:

Little scary at first sight, but it's only @4 feet at the dock, she stands up with a look they made digital cameras for :D :D I started hollering with laughter, till I was crying and she came in the house screaming "WELL, why didn't you come help me???" Standing there nAKid and laughing what could I say?? She got the last laugh though, as I got nuttin' honey!! LOL

Can't make this stuff up ... We still laugh about this all the time! :p :p

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Took a 23' boat with a 16 degree hull and a 454 magnum into 4-5 footers. What was I thinking? But the funny thing is I see 18' Sea Ray bow riders go out in the middle of Lake Erie all the time in really rough stuff. They have a look on their faces like they are enjoying themselves and I was praying to make it back to shore. Ever see that? Waves going over the bow?

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Took my cousins brand new 25 Fountain out on it's maiden voyage to see how she would handle 4 foot seas. He had left the anchor loose in the anchor compartment with nothing restraining it. Anchor put a hole about the size of a baseball by the beak. Went right through the glass and gelcoat out the other side. He was not happy. We noticed when we were putting it back on the trailer.

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First of all, I would like to admit to doing what Mitch mentioned, taking non-boaters out on the boat. One, they dont try to help when they should. Two, they dont know what they are doing when they do try to help.

Good story, unrelated to above,,,,,sort of. We were hanging out on the boats at one of the local boardwalk/bar areas where you could tie up and drink, party, and go into a couple of clubs. Its just a long dock so you have to tie off to each other and walk across the back of the boats. One of my friends girlfriends brought along a roommate. Not to bad looking if I may add, but annoying as all he!!. She had a little bit of a elevated self opinion of her looks and who she was. So, happily, she decides to go into the clubs with some of the other people. They start walking across the backs of the boats and you can see as she started to loose her balance.. Left hand reaches out for the closest thing to steady herself with, which happens to be a swim ladder. Well, I think we all know how those are designed to work. Next thing you see is her going into the water and popping up. Best part, to her credit I may add, she never relinquished her drink which was in her right hand. And her attitude toned down just a bit after that one.

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I have NEVER done even ONE stupid thing EVER while boating. I am the consummate mariner. . . . well, except for the ONE time when I had a few too many, and had this HOT chick onboard, and - well - sunk the boat.

But other than THAT. . . .

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My brother, who I don't particularly get along with very well, and his wife had asked me to meet them at the local ramp to participate in a sea trial with them. After introductions were made, the gentleman selling the boat started to back the boat down the ramp. This was to be my brother's second boat. His first boat was on a "bunk style" trailer. As the boat was going down the ramp, my brother reached out to unsnap the winch hook. Noticing that this boat was on a "roller style" trailer, I suggested he might not want to do that. Now my brother is one of those, "I know everything" types, if you don't believe him you can just ask him and he will tell you.
He snapped back at me to "quit telling him what to do". Now I'm one of those types that if it's not mine, I don't touch. That philosophy prevents a lot of problems I've learned over the year. I simply replied, "I really wouldn't do that" to which he replied, "shut up". I just walked over to the dock and waited. About one second later, my brother's eyes got about as large as bowling balls, bulging out of his head, as the boat started to roll off the trailer, and with a sickening crash/crunch it hit the pavement about three feet short of the water line. All I said was "uh, you missed the water". I just walked over to my truck and drove home. My brother bought the boat. Then he had to have the skeg and prop replaced. I have to admit, I laughed all the way home. The look on his face was priceless. And I didn't have to say anything more.