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22. Talk about your boat and adventures therein. pics
Here I'll just post that old thread I made about that boat here. LOL
Friday I bought a boat. Not having anything to pull it with yet I decided to rent a truck for a couple days so I could take my kids to the lake. Saturday morning I get to the Uhaul to find the truck I have reserved has a flat tire. After waiting for a new tire, we get to the boat dealership to find out the boat trailer has a flat tire. Since I bought a used boat I had to pay for the tire. After the tire is fixed we swing by my home to load the boat up with our junk, where I promptly back up over the cable TV box in my front yard beside the driveway. After searching for a boat ramp at a local lake, I actually back the trailer up and put the boat into the water with no problems. I am so proud of myself now. After a couple of hours of pulling my kids on the float thingys, we decide to stop and eat and swim around the boat. I drop anchor but forgot to tie the anchor to the line good. Bye bye anchor. Undeterred by my run of bad luck, we continue on the lake for a few more hours until the lake starts getting choppy. Again I back the trailer down the boat ramp perfectly. During the test drive before I bought the boat, the salesman drove the boat all the way onto the trailer so I figured I could do the same. Wrong answer. I went slightly to the left and too far up on the trailer. Trying to reverse I hear scary sounds coming from the outboard. After close examinatation I discover that the one of the trailer runners is wrapped around the prop. Bad thing is the runner was also still attatched to the trailer, so all the weight of the boat was on the front of the boat and the outboard. I could not back the trailer up anymore as the muffler of the truck was already submerged. Thinking if I unhooked the trailer it would only slide back a couple feet, and thus relieve the tension on the outboard, I unhooked the trailer and watched open mouthed as my new boat and trailer rolled into the lake and floated away. So here I am blocking the ramp, 12 boats waiting to dock, and my boat is drifting away with the trailer still attatched. After the boat/trailer drifted about 100 yards out, some people towed it back in to me. At this time there was about 20 boats watiing to pull in, and they were not the friendliest group around. After about a hour of backing up and forth we finally got the outboard unjammed and got the boat back on the trailer. Lucky for me only the prop is trash. Did I forget to mention that I forgot to put sunscreen on? Yep I look like a lobster right now and am in some serious pain. SO now I sit here in front of my computer dehydrated, in pain, and without cable TV. At least the cable modem still works. Now my kids want me to get a camper. LOL
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