Nothing to be said....

[Ozark Flyer]

Wifey and I are returning to the hickory creek ramp.  A man is launching a party barge.  No dock lines...doesn’t tie off when he steps out at the dock...it floats off from the dock....he had to catch a shuttle from another boater to retrieve his boat.  Did he think he could just tell it to stay put and it would just stay there???  What...how....

[J-Doc]

Not surprised. 

With every passing year, our population growth seems to bring more things that make you cross-eyed with bewilderment. 

[Dan the fisherman]

I really feel like we need some kind of “boat license “ on beaver.   I see crazy/dumb things like that regularly. Maybe not a license but boater safety course or something.   Maybe a launching course too, as to not hold up the docks, like unstrapping boat and putting plugs in feet from the water.  I get my boat water ready before I pass the bathrooms (PC ramp).  I get passed by boaters going to the ramp only to find them doing what I was doing in the parking lot, doing on the ramp.  So I’m waiting on them now when I’m ready.  Ugh. Sorry for the rant!!   

[Quillback]

The classic one is seeing someone backed halfway down a single lane ramp that decided it is time to do some outboard motor maintenance. 

[J-Doc]

3 hours ago, Quillback said:

The classic one is seeing someone backed halfway down a single lane ramp that decided it is time to do some outboard motor maintenance. 

Oh I would have words.  

And those that know me, know that it takes a ot before I open my mouth and start any possible confrontation.  Even if I asked nicely to move, I'm sure 90% of people thst would do something like that would take offense and start mouthing off. 

[Flysmallie]

8 hours ago, Dan the fisherman said:

I really feel like we need some kind of “boat license “ on beaver.   

We have a license systems for cars and look at how people drive. It wouldn't change a thing. 

[Stump bumper]

The ones I love is when the guy yelling at his wife sends her to back down the trailer knowing full well she has no idea how to back a trailer. These people have expense boats and look to have good jobs, makes me wonder if they manage their people and equipment the same way at work???

I backed a trailer down for a wake boat for a stressed out young lady one day that was very grateful then almost got in a fist fight with the husband when I got to the water. No good deed goes unpunished, but it was a busy day at PC and she was jackknifed across the entire ramp so there were a few nice words when I was walking back to the truck.

This why winter is my favorite season, the colder it gets the better group of people you meet on the Lake. I have never seen anyone that didn't know what they were doing putting in when it is 25 degrees at launch.

[fishinwrench]

1 hour ago, Stump bumper said:

The ones I love is when the guy yelling at his wife sends her to back down the trailer knowing full well she has no idea how to back a trailer.

Why do guys do this?   I launch and load boats and pontoons by myself all the time, it's a piece of cake (unless it is a closed bow runabout with a roller trailer, then it's a PIA.... but I can still do it).  

Nothing sets me off worse than some lazy prick screaming at his wife like a retard over something that he apparently can't do either.  I just wanna tell her to serve papers on that jackoff and make sure she gets the boat in the divorce.  

[snagged in outlet 3]

I launch by myself all the time.  Just don't unhook the front hook until the motor is running.

[fishinwrench]

9 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

I launch by myself all the time.  Just don't unhook the front hook until the motor is running.

Boat doesn't even have it's first scratch and he's already lost confidence in that POS 4-stroke.