Don't Buy a Trailer Boat If You Are Stupid!!

[P_J_Glor]

This guy is obviously unclear on the concept of launching a boat from a trailer using a boat ramp. How much deeper does he have to go until his boat floats? Obviously new to the water scene.

Pete G.

[Aerominded]

LOL!!! I've seen them go all the way in the other way!!! :eek: but that takes the cake!!! :p

Always a nervous time, backing the boat down the ramp to salt water... especially when there is a bit of tide/wave surge at the ramp! :eek: !

Well, at least he appears to have been smart enough to buy a Boston Whaler! :p

[Steve Bad]

There's gotta be a failed parking brake story here somewhere........
Surely no one would do that deliberately........

[capntroy]

Ha! Marina del Rey.....

[willhaney]

There's gotta be a failed parking brake story here somewhere........
Surely no one would do that deliberately........http://static.rcgroups.com/forums/images/smilies/wink.gif

[craig_c]

never underestimate... oh the hell with it....

[Ghost 2501]

on slopes ALWAYS park in gear (or park in auto's) with Handbrake ON.

[pkboo]

There's gotta be a failed parking brake story here somewhere........
Surely no one would do that deliberately........
I really do hope so....or I´ld have to go with the title :rolleyes: Boo

[der kapitan]

Reminds me of a dumb blonde joke I heard a while back---. ;)

She launched her new boat with the trailer attached, then wondered why it wouldn't plane---. :D

[jshander]

I once saw a guy at the Pewaukee Lake WI boat launch leave his toddler unsupervised in the front seat of his pickup with the engine running while he was back in the boat on trailer doing some last minute arrangements.
The toddler apparently shifted car in reverse or neutral (again no parking breaks) The truck rolled back into water at level deep enough to kill engine.
Both truck and boat were in 3 feet of water.
You could hear dad cursing from very far away!
I am certain there was no child abuse since everyone else was watching and had no clue what was happening until the running truck died.

[Vince Hoffmann]

Ha! Marina del Rey.....

Southern Californian, that explains it! :eek: :D

[norgale]

If you look closely you can see skid marks where the truck tires slid down the ramp. Why the truck was headed into the water is a mystery and gives credence to the "NEWBY" theory but that is one slick ramp as you can see from the green growth on the surface. That was a bad day for that boater. Pete

[Greysquirrel]

I was having a bad morning but this lifts my spirits I screwed something up but this makes me feel like a mental giant.

[SabreHawk]

Gotta say this really does take the cake. Im just glad someone was quick with a camera and got this shot.
It's gonna give the tow driver that gets him out something to laugh about for a while, maybe a week or two.

[boater_dave]

I think tying the stern line off to the dock is a bit pointless now, isn't it?

Dave

[fooman2008]

There was a tow company down the road from the convenience store I worked at that said, "no pictures other than for insurance purposes," this was to prevent people from embarrassing towing clients and posting on the internet.
Foo

[lightthings]

"Discussion - Don't Buy a Trailer Boat If You Are Stupid!! "

What you be forgetting is that stupid people continually are reminding themselves that they ARE stupid.
Sometimes even they can figure out a new way ho to do it.

[P_J_Glor]

I should probably have posted this on the "Caption This" thread...

A little late now...

Pete G.

[Hoghappy]

I should probably have posted this on the "Caption This" thread...

A little late now...

Pete G.

It was already posted there by Millertime! Where you been? :p

[P_J_Glor]

It was already posted there by Millertime! Where you been? :p

Getting the picture from a friend on Hotmail....

Pete G.

[MILLERTIME]

I should probably have posted this on the "Caption This" thread...

A little late now...

Pete G.

I did 6 days ago, your late.

Don M.

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showpost.php?p=12498304&postcount=230

[CGAux26]

i launched my dad's 18 ft. boat and 1952 Buick, back in '63, at the Galveston Yacht Basin ramp. We were retrieving the boat, with the car's parking brake on and a rear wheel blocked. I was cranking on the hand winch and set up a harmonic bouncing motion that unloaded the real wheels of the car. Boat, trailer, and car went in the water, with the back seat of the car flooded. The boat floated off. Had to have the transmission flushed before we could drive home. Dad's comments were not suitable for the Houston Post. :eek:

[SilentHunter]

Thats OK, so long as you dident have the car first and pull forward into the water.

I still cant fathom why this clown was even driving down there car first to begin with.

[laser110]

This is why I sail.

Scott

[norgale]

But,but-- ya still need to launch the boat don't ya? Reminds me of laying sod. Everyone is always saying "green side up". Ya Right! But I never have heard anyone having to say "The boat goes in first". Has to be an interesting story with that picture that we are not hearing. Pete

[quicksilver]

But,but-- ya still need to launch the boat don't ya? Reminds me of laying sod. Everyone is always saying "green side up". Ya Right! But I never have heard anyone having to say "The boat goes in first". Has to be an interesting story with that picture that we are not hearing. Pete

I'm not sure how, but you reminded me of a story my father told me from last year at our yacht club. During the winter the majority of our boats are stored in the yard on jack stands. Well, one thing you do in the winter is make sure the jack stands are tight, so we usually give them a half turn or so every time we go down. One of our friends does the same and one night he gets a call that his boat fell over into another boat. Not a cheap accident to say the least. He was checking his stands, however he forgot righty tighty. :rolleyes: He's not our brightest member, one would think he would realize that it was getting looser, he did not.


another thing about boat ramps or travel lift launches, opps forgot the drain plug. seen that over a dozen times.

[fooman2008]

Working as a carpenter when I first started the guy running the crew pointed out the three rules to framing (with his remaining three fingers and a thumb)
1. Don't hit the pink things (fingers)
2. Don't cut the pink things
3. Always go home with same number of the pink things at the end of the day.
I have always remembered them and I still got all the pink things, though there are a couple of scars on them where I wasn't paying attention.
Somebody obviously wasn't following the launching checklist somewhere.
Foo

[frankg]

:eek: The next thing you know this guy will post this boat, trailer, and truck on Ebay, saying “ boat and trailer never in water, truck in new condition with the exception of damp seats”

That is not the funny part, someone will strike a deal with this guy for a low ball price and think he got a great deal.

Wait until the salt water does its thing to the sheet metal in a year or two, the truck will look like it came from the Beverly Hillbillies. It’s like P.T. Barnum said, “ there is a sucker born every minute”. ;)

[BOZINATOR]

Looks like someone was old enough to retire and buy boat and go fishing....but too old to drive a truck. :eek: I am not going to wait that long.:D
jim:)