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| I let my wife drive 15' later CRASH hits another boat ,my mistake. |
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Location: Wayzata, MN | Baggy sweatshirts and tillers don't mix! [grin]
Hitting the landing after dark after a long day of fishing. Standing in the boat, gliding towards the landing dock... tiller handle tilted up. Sat down, [click] into gear, whoa! Stood up, out of gear. Sat back down [click] into gear and a little faster this time. Repeat, repeat, repeat... spinning in circles between the docks, boat partner almost fell out. I thought my motor was acting up... we were dazed and confused I guess... neither of us knew what the heck was going on.
Finally got a handle of the situation [pun intended;]....
GAWD, we laughed all the way home...!
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Location: Ontario Canada | I didn't think I would ever share this with other muskie hounds because when it first happened it was embarassing
to say the least , but years later my buddy and I are able to laugh about it now so here it goes.
About 5 years ago my buddy and I were fishing a real bluebird day with no luck.
After trying just about everything in my box I decided to throw nothing but a bucktail for the rest of the day.
As the day went on I was able to bomb the bucktail further and further getting great distances on my casts.
I'd just told my buddy the incredible distances I was getting on my casts and about 3 casts later it happaned.
I wound up and let er fly , I was looking into the distance to see where my bucktail should have landed but nothing.
I looked down at my reel to see the biggest birdsnest I've ever seen , just then buddy says to me " I think a seagull just hit me in the back " . I looked over at his back and seen my bucktail hanging in his shirt. At first I didn't think much of it as he was
still casting and fishing so I said to him " hang on a minute my lure is stuck in your shirt " . Needless to say he kept casting as
I freed the bucktail from his shirt . When I finally got it out and seen the back treble hook I said " OH S#*T you better let
me take a look at your back " ( one hook on the back treble was STRAIGHT ) . As he kept fishing I looked at his back
only to find about a 3" gash. I said to him " sorry man but I'm going to have to take you for stitches " . He finishsd his last
retrieve and turned to me and said " why? " so I held the bucktail up for him to see and with that he turned completely
white , started sweating and crashed down on his seat. I ran us to shore , took him for stitches and about 2 hours later
we were back on the water. To this day we LOL when we talk about it mostly because my buddy made about 6 or 8 casts
and kept fishing until he realized what happaned.
That lure hangs on his wall now ( he'll never let me forget ) LOL!!!
Just for the record " NO !!! " Ive never had anything like this happen in 30 years of fishing.
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Location: Wausau/Phillips WI | On a small bass lake I backed my 12' jon boat down to the landing, undid the straps, put my 10 year old son in the boat with the oars and backed the boat all the way in, boat floated off the trailer and I left to go park the boat while my son (with life jacket on) was supposed to row back to shore. He quickly found out that the drain plug wasn't in and started yelling instead of rowing. Those boats sure fill up a lot faster than they drain out. Took a lot of bribes for him not to tell his Mom. |
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| Driving an hour and a half home after fishing and then realizing I never actually clamped my boat
to the trailer. My trailer even is a roller model that the boat comes up and sits on.
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Location: Algonquin, ILL | Not me but a friend once forgot to take off the rear straps and could not figure out why the boat would not come off the trailer
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Location: Racine, Wi | So picture this, 2 young college boys fishing in a tourney. They come to the launch pumped after the 1st day, as they scored 2 fish. Not too bad for a couple of kids. Well, on the way back to the launch, the boat they are in is coming in nice and smooth to the no wake bouy. Well at that point, the motor decides that it doesn't feel like running anymore.  My partner is trying to get it restarted, as our nice smooth approach, was faster than we thought, and we were heading right for the back of a guys boat that was tied to the pier.
Well, the 3 gentlemen sitting on the pier are watching this, as I climed to the bow of the boat to lessen the impact. They had this nice little grins on their faces, anxious to see what is coming next. I manage to get my hands on the stern of their boat, but it wasn't quite enough, and we smacked right into the back of their boat, and I go a$$ over teakettle, but luckily not into their boat. Thankfully, they as well as us, got a good chuckle out of the whole deal, and no ones boats were damaged.  |
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| Last November, I was finished for the day and decided to take down my gear prior to approaching the ramp. It was about 11:00 at night and no other boats were around. I removed a believer from one rod and set it down, I removed a bageley db06 from my other rod, and sat down to put the baits back into storage. I had laid the believer on my seat. Those hooks penetrated coveralls, jeans, long underwear, skin, and muscle. Noticing the pain immediately, I went to stand up. I couldn't. The believer was also stuck to the boat seat. I was literally stuck where I couldn't sit down, couldn't stand up, and didn't have anyone else around. If I hadn't had bolt cutters in the boat, I'd probably still be out there stuck. DO NOT PUT BAITS WHERE YOU INTEND TO SIT! |
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Location: nationwide | Let me add this . . . .
A buddy of ours likes to come into docks hot and jam it into reverse and stop the boat perfectly parallel with the dock. Well one time the old sea horse killed when he got out of the throttle. The buddys boat was steered like a Florida gator boat, from the front with one stick for steering and another for throttle and forward/reverse, kinda goofy but he liked it. So he comes in very hot at a more extreme angle than usual, dumps the throttle and the motor kills. Me and other buddy instantly look into each others eyes with panic and all we can hear is the noise when you go to start the motor as the boat owner is trying to get the motor started before impact. Upon impact both guys in the rear of the boat end up on the floor, the guy driving braces with his feet and stays in his seat. As we are getting up and taking an inventory of ourselves we begin to laugh and notice a huge dent on the right side of the "v". Now we are really rollin and when we mention it to the owner he nonchalantly says, "Oh that will come out with a ball peen hammer no problem". To this day if I am with either of the guys from that day all we have to do is make the wew . . wew . . wew noise of the motor trying to start to crack us up.
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Location: nationwide | and this . . . .
Same boat as post above. We were fishing and during a run through a slow no wake area I figured I would have a sandwich. So I open up my cooler grab a sammie and a soda and sit down. The guy who was with us was pretty good sized and he sits directly across from me. As I am taking a bite of sammie, in the blink of an eye something went off in the back of the boat and I can't see and although I do not know what happened I am instantly to the bow of the boat, in front of the guy driving and as I turn around he is already laughin. I start to turn around and all I can see in the back of the boat is a huge yellowish cloud of powder of some kind . . . . . you guessed it, fire extinguisher powder!!!!! And then I start to look at myself . . . . and I look like I was just rolled in yellow flour for frying. I had my hat off and I had the stuff in my hair, face, shoes and up my shorts as I was sitting down, and the whole back of the boat was covered in yellow, and there was a yellow cloud of dust hanging over the water where it had happened. What happened is the guy across from me sat down and being slightly portly he bent the little shelf he was sitting on and it discharged the fire estinguisher underneath the shelf, which was pointed directly at me and my lunch. How it discharged just from that I am not sure but I can tell you it did, and the stuff comes out of those very fast.
Corey Meyer
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Location: Rockford Il 61108 | My father and I bought a new Stratos proxl last year, in spring, and the first day we took it to the lake. We were'nt used to the bunks so on the advise of some idiot we sprayed the bunks down with some slippery component. As my dad backed the trailer down the ramp he had unhooked the safety ring. We were two feet shy of the proper water level and the boat started to slide downward. We watched as the boat slide off the trailer onto the cement. The sound was horrifying. I didnt want to cry so I started laughing. The damage was minimal ($450.00) for the resurfacing of the scuff marks on the bottom. New Boat "17 grand" First time with new boat "$450.00" Laughing all the way to the bank and hoping noone seen this stupidity "PRICELESS" |
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Location: nationwide | And . . . .
While up in Nestor Falls for a trip we saw a kid back down a hill with a pontoon boat and everything was fine until he got to where it levels out. That is where the lower unit, which was trimmed all the way down, started to hit the blacktop and would get pushed under the boat until enough pressure, then it would pop back up, then get pushed under the boat. This happened about 4-5 times before there was a big bang and the transom area of the pontoon boat gave out and the motor folded right under the boat. The kid heard the big bang and stopped the truck and got out and walked to the back of the boat . . . . .all we heard was Aw sh__, dads gonna f ______n freak when he see this!!!!!
Somehow in our laughter we managed to launch our boat and left before his dad arrived. There was some huge diggers in the blacktop when we took our boat out that night though.
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Location: Chicago, Beverly | Was sitting at Webster once waiting to launch...some guy in front of us was loading his boat... some old beater of a thing, trailer had that screw-down coupler you see on older trailers.. Brand-Spanking-New-License just applied for-S10 Blazer.... well these guys are struggling to get the boat loaded on the trailer straight.. but it keeps getting crooked(trailer was way too deep in the water to load correctly), so they decide to get it about half on the trailer, pull it out, and then crank it the rest of the way on... so here they are, coming up the ramp at backwater, about at the top of the ramp the skeg starts dragging across the parking lot, over half the boats weight not on the trailer, when all of a sudden that screw down coupler gives out, the trailer pops off the hitch....the guy behind the wheel does the absolute worst thing you can do in that situation, just barely giving me time to shout to my brother: "watch this!!".....he nails the brakes............ dent the size of a sewer cap on the tailgate...guy behind the wheel gets out, looks at it...shakes his head and gets back in the truck while his buddy goes about trying get the trailer back on the truck and the boat completely on the trailer.....
Then there was the guy at the Kuhn ramp one day, brand spanking new Lund, just launched that morning, just getting loaded... once again, trailer way too deep in the water.. boat keeps going on crooked.... guy tells me to mind my own f'ing business when I suggest he pull the trailer out of the water until the fender is almost out of the water(you know, just a skim if water on top of the fender)...boat goes on crooked one more time, but this time he tells guy in truck just pull it out.... CRACK!! goes the fender on the brand spanking new trailer for the brand new lund.... they back it in one more time, this time driver(who was listening), gets barely any water over top of now broken fender, boat loads just right..... amazing.... |
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Location: nationwide | And another from probably 25 years ago . . . . .
We were kids and watching three old guys loading their boat on an old old canvas covered bunk trailer. I will admit the launch at our lake was terrible but anyways they have the boat about half way on the trailer and the car is in the lake with the exaust pipe in the water blurping. One guy is driving the car, one guy is on the trailer tongue at the winch and the last guy is driving the boat. They have already rammed the trailer several times with the boat to get it that far and now the guy in the boat is shooting mud out the back as the guy is trying to winch it up. The winchman yells to the guy in the car to" giver the grits" (I will never forget that saying) and the guy in the car floors it. They start to move and the car is spinning like crazy in the sand and the guy has got both hands on the winch and crankin hard when I notice the eye on the front of the boat is sticking way out. By the time I can say anything to my buddy the eye lets loose and pulverizes the winchman in the groin area. At about the exact time the car hits the concrete ramp and lurches sending the winch man off the tongue of the trailer into the water. The guy driving the car was oblivious to any of this and is still "givin' er the grits" and runs over the legs of the winchman who is face down in about a foot of water and pulls ahead to get the boat out of the water. The guy running the boat had killed the motor and was watching over the side of the boat as the trailer ran over his buddy, never saying a word or trying to stop the driver of the car. The guy driving the car gets out and sees the one guy all wet and asks what the hell happened and the wet guy says you ran me over with the boat trailer. The look on the drivers face was priceless as the boat driver tried to explain what happened. We decided to leave at that time because the language was getting nasty and we did not want to get caught up in the trouble.
The launch was the public landing on Lake Thompson in Rhinelander. If you used it that long ago you know what I mean.
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| O.K. here it is about 6yrs ago we decided against our better judgement to to fishing on memorial day cars for a mile at the landing noone know what the #&!! thier even there for so we wait 30-40 min to get to the landing DAD MOM little missy and son are going out for an enjoyable day of screaming at each other and reenforceing the family unit so pops gets out at the landing and starts running around in his summer clown suit loading unstrapping and such not like he did'nt have time before he blocked the landing this is a very shallow landing so instead of getting the boat floating with someone backing him straight in he has to do it all now the boat is hardly wet and he has a rope tied to the bow and he's pushing with both feet on each side of the boat trailer in front screaming at his boy to help so the kid comes running like BOOM BOOM Brown shoulders the hull and she busted loose rolled into the lake dragging the old man over each rung of the trailer on his gut at the last rung he jumped toward the boat srearing himself on the bow then spent the next 15 min dragging himself into the boat still sreaming at the whole family he gets into the boat and never gets it started so he ties the anchor on the rope that has turned his hand purple and starts tossing it to the landing in front of about 100 on lookers |
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Location: Chicago, Beverly | I think I saw that "famlily unit" at heidecke once..lol... The "Father" gets the boat off the trailer and ties the boat off right next to the sign that says not to tie off your boat, thus blocking the ramp... after myself and few others mention to "mother" what an a$$ her husband was and that she needs to learn how to operate the boat so they don't block the ramp in the future, I clip the nose of their boat with mine(on purpose) while loading mine and if not for all the P'sd offed guys waiting behind us threatening the guy when he came back, he might have gotten mad about what I did.. Wonder if he ever did that again.. |
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| I was camping in Northern Wisconsin. About a dozen people at the camp all the same type of boat and raved about it. I was in the market for a boat and a dealer up there had a used one.I convinced the wife to let me buy it and when I got out on the lake for the first time I just hated it. I decided to take it right back to the dealer and on the way back to the landing I ran right into a rock bar that comes right up to the suface. I had been fishing this lake for 20 years and I knew right where it was. Stupid Stupid Stupid. It cost me about 1000 bucks, with about 10 minutes on the water ,on the deal and the wife gives me #*#* to this day . |
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Location: Home of the 2016 World Series Champion Cubs | After I hung my 25 hp on a rental boat I Take her out for a quick spin to see if I need to adjust anything. I get er wide open about 3/4 mile from shore on fairly calm water and start a few sweeping turns, nothing sharp. As I'm turning to the right the boat starts porpoising (sp?) pretty bad. I decide to dump the throttle completely rather than just ease off the gas. Subsequently the Boat slows down dramatically but the operator, yours truely, does not and goes airborne over the left side of the boat. Notice that I said I just dumped the throttle and didnt mention anything about taking it out of gear and or shifting to neutral or employing the emergency kill switch teather. YUP.....she's a still moving without anyone in the boat. Fortunately as I was airborne and watching the boat move out from under me I was able to grab on to the side of the boat near the back corner. I am at this point dangling from the back left corner of the boat which is turning towrd the right I have to fight to keep my feet/legs from naturally drifting into the outboard due to the speed and arc of the turn. Fortunately I managed to safely reach the kill switch as I was trolling my silly loooking a$$ off the side of the boat. Took me a minute to compose myself enought to get my fully clothed (Typical Oct weather) butt back ove rthe transom and into the boat. The Last thing I had to doo as I was motoring back to shore was scan for witnesses.........Yup....found a bunch on the very pier I was going to. No way out of this one. Several lessons learned. Thats why I shared the story. Be safe  |
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Location: So. Illinois | After buying my very first boat, my wife and I decided to put her in at a sandy beach that is commonly used for smaller boats. We decided to do this becuase I had no experience unloading or backing a boat and wanted to spare myself the embarrasement of attempting to put the new boat in the water in front of the general public. So we tow the boat down to the beach area and back her in. In our excitement, we both failed to notice that we had no put in the drain plug. As soon as we got it off, it started to fill with water. Since the beach area was very shallow and had a very gradual taper, the boat ended up sitting on the bottom in the sand. The boat was a modest 16ft runabout. When I tried to put the drain plug in, I couldn't get to it since that part had setteled into the sand. After much digging, I finally got it it, we then had to bail for about a half an hour to get enough water out of the boat to get it on the trailer again (no pump). Once we got it on the trailer and all the water out, we tried to pull the boat out and got stuck on the beach. About this time, a fella pulled up in a truck and offered help. He was quietly laughing to himself and admitted he had watched the whole thing from his house about 100 yards away. We ended up going back to the public launch ( and put the boat in without incident) and managed to enjoy the rest of the day on the water......
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| Accidently taking the boat out without a gas tank (Running it dry for da Winter).
O it was end of october with no one on the lake! DId a 180 and barely puddered back in with a good chop!
Edited by B.Mirro 3/24/2005 11:40 AM
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| I'm waiting at the boat landing for my turn to launch my boat. The father (about 75 years old) backs the car and boat trailer down the landing and a middle-aged son runs a tiller boat onto the trailer. The son calmly climbs up in the front of the boat and hooks the boat to the trailer. Then the son gets back into his boat's fishing chair by the tiller motor and yells - Pull it out. Dad can't hear him so he yells it again. Still Dad cannot hear so the son yells - Dad -"Give er Hell! Instantly, Dad punches the gas pedal all the way to the floor and the car's front wheel drive - tires start spinning on the wet boat launch. Smoke is now rolling from the front tires on his vehicle, and before anyone can say: time-out, the wheels burn through the water on the boat launch and old man jerks the boat & trailer out of the water at 90 mph. The son is catapulted backwards out of his fishing chair in the boat and is trying desperately to keep from going over the boat transom. The old man goes up the boat ramp about 35 feet and then slams on the brakes - this is when the son flies to the front of the boat and ends up in the bow. The old man jumps out of the car and walks back to see his son laying in the bow of the boat dazed. He asks what the @#%$%$##@ happed to you? |
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| I was working at a Boat Dealership at Lake of Ozarks about 5 yrs ago. A well-healed guy from Kansas City came in and wanted a big pontoon with a 150 hp motor. Said he never had a boat before, but wanted to take his family water skiing. Next day he picked up the pontoon and drove to the boat landing. Soon, we received a cell phone call from the same customer and he says I am out on the lake and this *@##$%$$ pontoon will not get up on plane. The owner tells me to drive down to the boat landing and help this guy out. Remember this pontoon has a 150 hp mec on it. I jump in a pickup and drive to the landing. What I see is beyond belief. This guy had unbolted the ball on his trailer hitch and was driving the pontoon around the lake with the boat trailer still hooked underneath the pontoon.
I asked him if anyone had tried to help him, when he launched. He said three guys just kept smiling at him the entire time he launched the pontoon. |
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| I was working at a Boat Dealership at Lake of Ozarks about 5 yrs ago. A well-healed guy from Kansas City came in and wanted a big pontoon with a 150 hp motor. Said he never had a boat before, but wanted to take his family water skiing. Next day he picked up the pontoon and drove to the boat landing. Soon, we received a cell phone call from the same customer and he says I am out on the lake and this *@##$%$$ pontoon will not get up on plane. The owner tells me to drive down to the boat landing and help this guy out. Remember this pontoon has a 150 hp mec on it. I jump in a pickup and drive to the landing. What I see is beyond belief. This guy had unbolted the ball on his trailer hitch and was driving the pontoon around the lake with the boat trailer still hooked underneath the pontoon.
I asked him if anyone had tried to help him, when he launched. He said three guys just kept smiling at him the entire time he launched the pontoon. |
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| I think I heard that one before, only it had a blonde doing the operating.
My buddy took me to the chip for my first time. He had convinced me that he knew that lake like the back of his hand. The first day of our 4 day trip coming out of scott lake we nailed a mighty stump, no big deal everthing was in tact.
So now it was on to moonshine where (the big one) was! doing about 35 mph in his brand new lund, 90hp fourstroke, BANG! motor comes out of water, we shut her down and inspect the damage. nice chip in the skag and a couple of big chips in the prop.
So now being a little gun shy for a few hours we hit a few spots, putted around and fished. Not really putting the boat on plane.
He must have regained his confidence as my guide cause on the way back through this narrows we were full throttle, it was pretty chilly being october and snowing a little so I was facing towards the motor when all of a sudden the motor just starts slam dancin on the back of the boat. I kinda fell backwards(towards the front) as the boat comes to a complete stop, Not floating at all.
Here, there were two buoys on either side of us, marking the 1ft deep rock bar we had just been impailed on. He ended up jumping in up to his knees to push us off this minor obstacle, while I sat there speechless, He obviously didn't take heed when they told us the water was 4ft low.
Amazingly the motor started and was not leaking lower unit blood all over. granted it wouldn't go over20mph the rest of the weekend, but I don't think we cared after that ordeal.
I still give my buddy credit though after jumping in, we fished the rest of the day while ice was forming on his pants. |
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Location: Lindenhurst, Illinois | I had planned a trip for a bunch of guys in my neighborhood. One of the guys had never been fishing before and asked me to take him out on a local lake to show him a few things before the trip. We hit the landing on a Saturday morning with fog as thick as pea soup. As me motor off, we are talking about the spot we are going to fish. As we are motoring across the lake (going way to fast mind you), my buddy says, "aren't we going a little fast? Are you sure you know where we are going?"
Well I respond, "oh ya, the spot we are going to fish is about 200 yards up blah blah blah." Just as I finish explaining the spot, Wham I slam right into the bank. Oops, I guess it was a little less than 200 yards. |
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Location: Michigan | ouch!!!
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Location: Orland Park | First weekend I had the new 519 out, we overnight parked on the dock, nose in. There were 70 mph winds on the lake that night, and sure enough, when we were walking out to the boats in the morning, a bunch of people were looking at us. We couldn't see the boats at the time, and some were asking if we had the red boats on the docks. Oh boy. Both our boats were down. The Tony Boat had about 6 inches of the top of the motor showing. My 519 was swamped, but the motor wasn't submerged.
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