Mild Thunder
 

Everything work out ok?

Joe got successfully ungrounded by a salvage company, supposed to be $6k, but I guess the guy felt sorry for Joe and cut him a break, $3500. Awful, but much better than 6!

He chewed up one of his impellers and had to clean some sand out, but he was on the river today, operational again. :)

What happened and where?

Yea, lets just say things got ugly in a hurry. We were leaving boaters beach and the waves were rollin in pretty hard. My buddy couldnt get the anchor up. I pulled forward enough to release it, but he was still having trouble. So I grabed the rope, and helped him pull it up. In just a few seconds, the boat got a little sideways, then came a huge wave, by the time I got on the throttle it was too late. Ended up like a beached whale on the sandbar.

After baddog and his crew tried to get me free with no luck, i had no choice but to call the tow boat. They arrived at around 930pm, took about 45 minutes of tugging just to free me up. Towed me to portage public marina. 3500 bucks :mad:

Got the boat out on the trailer sat morning, flushed out sand out of engines, replaced sea pumps, and shes up and running.

Good thing is no injuries or damage except to my ego, I should have known better. Mostly felt bad for my crew, they were cold and nervous, not a fun 4th for them.

And yes, I will be signing up for tow boat u.s membership!

Sucks because I really wanted to hit new buffalo on sat with bobz and the guys, but maybe next time.

there were a bunch of boats thrown on the beach that day,,,,, it sucked that we anchored that far out,,,,, but the cushion was nice for getting the anchor up.

Glad the boat was ok though.

Yeah I'd say the water was a little gnarly for anchoring there that day. Went to the playpen yesterday, no drama, lots of boats.

It was nice to not get beat up in the boat for a change too, 1-2's all day. :D

Ya i had quite the ride on the deck of obnoxus's boat pulling the anchor....it provided some amusement given the circumstances!!

Glad to hear all is good with you...after hearing the story i thought you might be done for the season!

glad to hear everthing is o.k. we had a little bumpy ride home but it settled down closer to ec. the next day Sat. was a blast the run back to the beach and then to New Buffalo...(drank more bombs!!!) and then home on Sunday...tired today...see you this week-end????

Sounds like a pretty eventful weekend on the big pond. Torch Lake and Northern lake Michigan were pretty uneventful with smooth water all weekend. I broke my liver and my pocket book this weekend! Anybody that has not boated "up north" really needs to put it on their to do list, its beautiful!

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Trust me man, when I was sittin there waitin for the tow boat shivering like a little school girl from the cold water and cool winds, I believe I had said more than once, "this mutha f*&kin boat is goin on ebay tomorrow"!

The 3500 blows, but glad no one got hurt, and no damage to the boat other than a impeller and a bent muffler(tiebar hit it).

But on a good note, we had a great time at the beach with you guys, I should be out this weekend. Ill bring some extra yager with

Joe, sorry to hear you had troubles at the Beach. I get very nervous about getting in and out of there on a busy day,especially when the wind shifts. Others have a lot more experience with boat handling than I do and I've seen a lot of them get messed up when conditions change.

I got out there, finaly, on Sat for the first time of the year. There were a bunch of the Hammond crew out there. A lot of them were just as white as me. I still have to work on getting rid of the farmers tan.:cool:

Hey Mark, sorry we missed ya, I was contemplating just camping out there friday nite till the waves calmed down, and you guys could have yanked me out sat morning!

We actually got towed to the public ramp at portage marina. Talk about a shallow ramp. The ramp ends about 15ft from where the water line is! Id be nervous launching a 25fter there, let alone a 40.

It is shallow, but getting better than last year. The lake is 5" higher than last year. I can use either ramp at Doynes now.

Yeah bro...be CAREFUL on that ramp! I backed my trailer all the way off it last year...when I came forward, I bashed the front axle on the end of the ramp, broke all my lights and tore a flange that holds the suspension on the front axle!

Thankfully for me, they marked the docks where the ramp ends this year. When I looked at the sign, I was like no way in hell im getting my boat out here! got lucky i guess

I'm glad that I anchored a little deeper than BZ and Joe, being a novice boater!!! Any closer and I might have beached my junk too!

Sounds like you guys had a nice cruise. :)

Not sure if I'll be out sunday, I need to give my wallet a break.