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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUeLtjENtGo
Lots of OUCHs
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Good link. I have to wait till after midnight to watch all those 'ouchs'.
I've never had or been in a serious boat accident. Some Capsizing, dead engines, had to charge the beach to keep from losing the boat once.
I've never had or been in a serious boat accident. Some Capsizing, dead engines, had to charge the beach to keep from losing the boat once.
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Thuddie, capsizing and running onto the beach to keep her from sinking ARE serious accidents. You just made them end well's the only difference.
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Best trailering incident that I had wasn't necessarily trailering related, but happened while I was trailering my Bristol Skiff. Flat bottom boat with two skegs, and I have the bunks on that trailer set close to the skegs (drove it across the country a couple years ago, wanted it supported as well as possible). This means you have less than 10 inches to play with putting it on the trailer.
Now, I'm a professional boathandler, and a very experienced one at that, but I don't care WHO you are and how much experience you have, a light skiff with nothing up forward and a too big outboard aft with variable winds and slight surges around the ramps takes one HELL of a lot of concentration and awareness. So, you can understand why I was completely focused on making a smooth shot onto the trailer with dozens of people sitting around watching with a "he's trying to put THAT thing on a trailer TODAY" look on their faces, and didn't notice my 6 year old playing with the yellow tab on my inflatable.
I wear one of those belt pack inflatables on my boat. I wear a bigger bulkier PFD all day at work, so I like the unobtrusiveness of it. It's out of the way, non-constrictive, and satisfies the good sense of always wearing one underway.
So right when I was 125% task saturated, when I thought my situational awareness was in perfect sync with everything going on around me, he pulled the ripcord on my inflatable. Never saw it coming. My heart almost stopped. In fact, it might have for a few seconds. Was great entertainment for everyone else around the ramps, though.
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I tried to pull a big Bayliner off a Rock. I was trying to do a guy a favor. But I was too stupid to know what not to do.
I had all his passengers get onto my boat. Just in case.....and sure enough, his boat was bigger, heavier, and more top heavy than I thought.
So as we pulled him rear ward, to uncouple his hull from the rock, his boat got away from the Rocks we could see, slowly slid off the Rock, then heaved to the left a bit, and then in one great foamy, plunging, epic of Ocean born stupidity on my part, that Bayliner rolled over on it's left side and began to sink.
Soon I realized it was taking my boat with it too. It pulled me backwards, and to the left. I poured the coals to it. It made a helluva racket and foamy water boiled up, but I still went backwards. Following that wallering Bayliner.
I let it back to Hi Idle and ran through that crowd at the stern, grabbed my Halibut knife from the Magnet and slashed the line.
My boat heaved up forward and settled down. The crowd was thrown all over the boat by that time.
All those people went to the rear of my boat and started screaming at the 'husband' who was still on the Bayliner. He was on the Fly bridge which was now laying over and going under water.
But I had to let that Line go and we were just about under at the Stern by the time I slashed that line.
I lost a lot of respect for people who can make noise, get under foot, and other wise are Useless!
We backed up a bit and grabbed the husband. He was an older guy and that short bit of time in that cold water just about had him speechless.
The Bayliner stopped on some submerged rocks. We let well enough alone and got him into the Boat. I took him into Homer and let them off at the Dock where the Salvage sign was lit up.
In all my years of Boating I've piked up people from the Salt Water and Fresh water.
All water is too cold to spend much time in.
I had all his passengers get onto my boat. Just in case.....and sure enough, his boat was bigger, heavier, and more top heavy than I thought.
So as we pulled him rear ward, to uncouple his hull from the rock, his boat got away from the Rocks we could see, slowly slid off the Rock, then heaved to the left a bit, and then in one great foamy, plunging, epic of Ocean born stupidity on my part, that Bayliner rolled over on it's left side and began to sink.
Soon I realized it was taking my boat with it too. It pulled me backwards, and to the left. I poured the coals to it. It made a helluva racket and foamy water boiled up, but I still went backwards. Following that wallering Bayliner.
I let it back to Hi Idle and ran through that crowd at the stern, grabbed my Halibut knife from the Magnet and slashed the line.
My boat heaved up forward and settled down. The crowd was thrown all over the boat by that time.
All those people went to the rear of my boat and started screaming at the 'husband' who was still on the Bayliner. He was on the Fly bridge which was now laying over and going under water.
But I had to let that Line go and we were just about under at the Stern by the time I slashed that line.
I lost a lot of respect for people who can make noise, get under foot, and other wise are Useless!
We backed up a bit and grabbed the husband. He was an older guy and that short bit of time in that cold water just about had him speechless.
The Bayliner stopped on some submerged rocks. We let well enough alone and got him into the Boat. I took him into Homer and let them off at the Dock where the Salvage sign was lit up.
In all my years of Boating I've piked up people from the Salt Water and Fresh water.
All water is too cold to spend much time in.