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[QUOTE]Chemi - 1/14/2019  10:17 AM

One meets the most accomplished idiots at a boat launch... slapstick comedy at its best.

Like the guy who was launching his 35' cabin cruiser in a nearby 450 acre no-wake lake. (Why he wanted to put that big boat into a tiny, no-wake lake is a mystery.) His 90-lb. trophy wife was handed the boat's $1.95 1/4" polypropylene bow-line, and then he proceeded to back the boat into the water and jerk-stop it so the boat went flying off the trailer. Trophy wife was almost dragged off the dock before the guy could get the truck stopped and run back to help her. Her hands were all torn up from the cheap plastic rope... Boat went immediately back on the trailer, wifey b*tching up a storm.

Or the time the three teens in a speedboat who'd been a-h*les on the water all day came up to the dock just after I'd pulled out. They hadn't been skiing; they were all fully clothed. One jumps out to get the truck while the other two stay in the boat, which then backs a little ways away from the dock. Truck guy comes back a minute later and calls out to the boat, "You've got the keys; toss 'em to me!". Keys get tossed, truck comes back, only to find the boat (now without the motor running because the boat keys were together with the truck keys) had blown farther out into the lake where a key toss was no longer an option. Two wet teens swimming the boat laboriously back to the ramp really made my day.[/QUOTE]

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Posted 1/14/2019 10:17 AM (#928327 - in reply to #928245)
Subject: RE: How not to launch your boat.

One meets the most accomplished idiots at a boat launch... slapstick comedy at its best.

Like the guy who was launching his 35' cabin cruiser in a nearby 450 acre no-wake lake. (Why he wanted to put that big boat into a tiny, no-wake lake is a mystery.) His 90-lb. trophy wife was handed the boat's $1.95 1/4" polypropylene bow-line, and then he proceeded to back the boat into the water and jerk-stop it so the boat went flying off the trailer. Trophy wife was almost dragged off the dock before the guy could get the truck stopped and run back to help her. Her hands were all torn up from the cheap plastic rope... Boat went immediately back on the trailer, wifey b*tching up a storm.

Or the time the three teens in a speedboat who'd been a-h*les on the water all day came up to the dock just after I'd pulled out. They hadn't been skiing; they were all fully clothed. One jumps out to get the truck while the other two stay in the boat, which then backs a little ways away from the dock. Truck guy comes back a minute later and calls out to the boat, "You've got the keys; toss 'em to me!". Keys get tossed, truck comes back, only to find the boat (now without the motor running because the boat keys were together with the truck keys) had blown farther out into the lake where a key toss was no longer an option. Two wet teens swimming the boat laboriously back to the ramp really made my day.