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| A few head shaking moments...
Safety chains...A guy with a boat and trailer (roller) identical to mine was loading up and about to pull his boat out. He didn't hook his chain. I speak up and tell him his chain isn't hooked up. He grumbles and says "I never use it, that's just for when I go down the road." He hops on the gas and his boat rolls off onto concrete. He's more ticked off at me than he was at the presence of his boat sitting on ground.
Weeds....A pair of guys with jetskis load up and their trailer is loaded with weeds. I tell them they should remove them because the local police were stopping people if they saw this sort of thing. They scoff at this notion. I clean my trailer up, pull out of the parking lot and 1/4 mile down the road a cop has them pulled over and is writing a ticket as they are cleaning their trailer off. I honk my horn and wave.
Falling in the water....Opening day in N. WI a few years back. Water is cold. Loading my boat up and a family of five is launching theirs. Husband is at the helm, kids are seated, mom is pushing boat away from the dock. She has a Gilbert Brown type physique. As she pushes the boat, dad throws the boat in reverse. In she goes. My buddies and I are trying not to laugh. Dad and kids go out to fish for a bit and she is going to change into dry clothes. We get my boat on the trailer, I drive up and catch a glimpse of her in between two trucks stripping down. I park my boat in plain sight of her and tell my buddies I have to take a dump and they can tie my boat down. I don't have to use the can, I just walk away and watch my friends. They hop in the truck, I hop in myself and they chewed me out for making them see that.
"I thought you were looking"...A couple of guys going to load up, one is dropped off to get the truck and trailer and he backs it in. Guy in boat takes a rope with a pretty good sized hook on it, winds up, and throws it at the other guy on shore...who at that moment bends over to tie his shoe or something. The hook whacks the guy on the side of the head and knocks him out for a few moments.
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| Reef Hawg - 6/24/2014 10:16 AM
Junkman - 6/24/2014 9:56 AM
I guess my boat looks like a musky boat so I get folks at ramp after ramp who always want to tell me how their brother (cousin, sister's husband, dad's old partner or "just this guy") was fishing here just last week and caught a 65 inch musky. I for one am getting just sick and tired of always being the guy who shows up a week too late to get the really good fish. I don't even get to see them. Thank the Lord, at least they are out there. Maybe someday?
You probably aren't throwing a jig/yellow twister tail on a brass swivel snap that has two other old knots on it.
Isn't that the truth! Thanks for a good laugh. |
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| At the Brown County boat landing at Fox River. Stopped a little short of the water. Ouch.
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Location: The desert | Seen tons of great stuff...
Pleasure boater in Utah, launches expensive boat attached to Cadilac Escalade. Infant in the back seat, rest of family on the boat. Guy hops out to tie up boat, door closes behind and locks. Infant still in back seat, luckily the AC was on. Sherrif I was working with didn't have a slim Jim, guy blocked the access for over an hour waiting for a locksmith. Infant slept the whole time.
Seen dropped boats on the ramp. Seen entire trailers come off while backing in, drunks fall out of boat onto pavement not water. Seen people confuse R and D and put the whole vehicle in the drink. Tons of forgotten plugs, only one fully sank.
Wish I would have gotten a picture of the yard man lawn mower with boat trailer attached parked at an access.
Saw a boat and trailer occupying two different parking stalls.
Saw a houseboat blow up after refueling. That one wasn't overly humorous as I believe the owner passed away.
The Daytona 500 burnouts of vehicles trying to pull boats out are always classic. |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Wish I would have gotten a picture of the yard man lawn mower with boat trailer attached parked at an access.
Seen that as well as trailers attached to ATV's
Our boat launch is in the park and parking is gravel surrounded grass and trees. One day last summer I looked under the trees and saw a team of horses attached to a pontoon trailer. On the lake I saw a group of what I took to be a couple of Amish families fishing Crappie
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| Pointerpride102 - 6/25/2014 2:57 PM
Wish I would have gotten a picture of the yard man lawn mower with boat trailer attached parked at an access.
I see your lawn mower tow vehicle and raise you a team of horses pulling a Lund Tyee |
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Location: Minnesota. | ulbian - 6/25/2014 9:53 AM
A few head shaking moments...
Safety chains...A guy with a boat and trailer (roller) identical to mine was loading up and about to pull his boat out. He didn't hook his chain. I speak up and tell him his chain isn't hooked up. He grumbles and says "I never use it, that's just for when I go down the road." He hops on the gas and his boat rolls off onto concrete. He's more ticked off at me than he was at the presence of his boat sitting on ground.
Weeds....A pair of guys with jetskis load up and their trailer is loaded with weeds. I tell them they should remove them because the local police were stopping people if they saw this sort of thing. They scoff at this notion. I clean my trailer up, pull out of the parking lot and 1/4 mile down the road a cop has them pulled over and is writing a ticket as they are cleaning their trailer off. I honk my horn and wave.
Falling in the water....Opening day in N. WI a few years back. Water is cold. Loading my boat up and a family of five is launching theirs. Husband is at the helm, kids are seated, mom is pushing boat away from the dock. She has a Gilbert Brown type physique. As she pushes the boat, dad throws the boat in reverse. In she goes. My buddies and I are trying not to laugh. Dad and kids go out to fish for a bit and she is going to change into dry clothes. We get my boat on the trailer, I drive up and catch a glimpse of her in between two trucks stripping down. I park my boat in plain sight of her and tell my buddies I have to take a dump and they can tie my boat down. I don't have to use the can, I just walk away and watch my friends. They hop in the truck, I hop in myself and they chewed me out for making them see that.
"I thought you were looking"...A couple of guys going to load up, one is dropped off to get the truck and trailer and he backs it in. Guy in boat takes a rope with a pretty good sized hook on it, winds up, and throws it at the other guy on shore...who at that moment bends over to tie his shoe or something. The hook whacks the guy on the side of the head and knocks him out for a few moments.
Man, that there was just simply worth the read. LMAO...really!!! Thanks. |
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| I saw a couple of guys trying to launch a little 12ft tin boat. They were yelling at each other in some Eastern European language trying to get the boat ready while they are taking up ramp space. Finally one guy climbs in the boat from the bow while it's on the trailer and has to step over the strap holding the boat to their trailer to get to the stern. His friend backs the boat in and is trying to power launch the boat not realizing that the strap was still attached. Finally after a half dozen attempts they pull the boat/trailer and undo the strap while yelling louder and louder at each other. I wish I could of understood what helpful comments were being made to each other. |
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| A friend of mine is a Dane County Parks worker. On call two weekends a month. I keep telling him to write a book, few would believe what he sees, totally unreal. You could literally have a reality show based on "landing antics" And how much of it involves naked hotties is unreal:)
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| 3 very drunk Yoopers arrived at the upper Paint Pond landing to find they were unable to pull the 12' boat w/ motor out of the back of the pickup. The boat had jammed down in the truck bed on the way to the lake. After an hour of hillarious 3 Stooges antics they backed the truck/boat down into the water and tied a rope from the back of the boat to the end of the pier. (switch to present tense) The driver begins to creep forward, the rope gets tight and the truck wheels start spinning on the slick landing in the shallow water. That boat is really stuck between the wheel wells. The driver backs up till the muffler is underwater, and then the back bumper, the guy can't get the truck out of reverse. Finally, with the water up to the tailgate, he puts the truck in drive and he floors it. Water is spraying everywhere as the tires spin......until the tires catch dry concrete. The truck shoots forward, I see and hear the driver's head hit the back window and a moment later the boat is jerked high in the air, the rope snaps and the boat comes crashing down, motor first, on the pavement that leads to the water. The rope was too long. The back of the boat is about 10 feet from the water's edge. The motor is in pieces. Were the Yoopers upset? No way, they laughed harder than I did. |
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| While much of the discussed landing humor has been at the expense of boats and trucks, my experines have centered around humans an the humor they have provided.
It doesnt seem to matter-WI, MN, Canada if you spend any time at landing you have probably met the ineveatable "Landing Guy"...whom have all been special in their own ways.
There was "Pops"-whom we've managed to run into multiple times and learn about every thing wrong with this country and government
Elderly lady pulls into lot with fresh Kmart bag full of white spray paint- the 15 yr old Buick left looking only slightly better
Personal favorite-people swimming, fishing, generallized frogging around on the actual ramp being peeed when i either want in or out with my boat cuz they have to reel in lines (which based on what I have found on prop for those who chose not to reel in are some of the strangest live bait riggings I have ever seen)
The winner was last summer at a very unimproved landing prbly quarter mile from road. We are enjoying a couple good ones after trailering at end of day. Out of the darkness emerges a fellow who had: been upducted by both aliens and Playboy bunnies, was a CIA operative and currently on a mission, wasnt really there right then and multiple other curiousities. I may go to my grave with this being the winner of "Landing Guy" award.....it truly was about the 75 most surreal mininutes I have ever experiicned.
Let hear about some more "Landing Guys"
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Location: NE Wisconsin | Not a landing story, but a funny one. Had acustomer many years ago, who bought an older wooden run about with a big old Johnson on the back, with no tilt n trim. When he got home, his wife was in the driveway directing his back up job. His drive way had an incline from the street, I did mention the boat had no tilt. While he is backing up, the motor keel catches on the drive way. e thinks it is the incline which is slowing him up. He guns it and by the time he gets stopped the motor and the back of the wooden run about is under the trail axel. If that would have happened to me, I would have never told anyone, but it didn't bother him. Even said he hadn't put insurance on the rig before driving it home. To have that on video would be priceless. |
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| I once saw an idiot at the launch unhook both his strap and safety chain before backing his roller trailer down a steep ramp at Bay de Noc near Escanaba, MI. He promptly dumped the boat on the ramp. Amazingly neither his trasducer nor his lower unit were damaged. He cranked the boat back on the trailer and went out fishing.
BTW, that idiot was me when I was young and dumb. Doh! |
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| I have seen and done some dumb things at the launch. One thing that stands out as funny is this one. One of our best MI members and an all around good guy Jim Smith (When he was alive) was one of the worst boat launchers of all time. Averaged about an hour to launch. One day I see his boat on the launch for over an hour and it looks like he is about to get lynched by jet skiers looking to leave. When I get there his Lincoln town car is stuck in park. You heard that rite Lincoln town car. I told him a hundred times to get a truck. When I get there he asks me what I think is wrong. I say Smitty look in the parking lot all the trailors are attached to pickups or SUVs. Now body tows a boat with a Lincoln town car dummy. |
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