Wildcat boat ramp idiot 6/12

[jdmidwest]

9 hours ago, aarchdale@coresleep.com said:

At launch ramps if i have a guy that has his own boat i always put him in the boat and i back my own truck. I always find it harder to back a strange truck down a busy launch ramp with unfamiliar mirrors than drive a boat

But most the time the guy gets in his boat and lets the buddy back his truck

In that case, I would have taken the heat crumpling his wife's fender before listening to him if I chipped the glass on his Triton.

[grizwilson]

[Terrierman]

Now let's talk about ramp Karma:

1.  Watched a guy back his rig, in fiddle didle around, finally jump in the boat and the truck promptly followed him into the lake.  I can still hear him him yelling "Get somebody!  Get somebody!"

2.  Griz and I watched a guy with a fancy new Topwater and new trailer run right over the trailer of the only other rig in the parking lot (besides us).  I learned some new French words that day.

3.  Watched some asian guy launch his boat and trailer too with the trailer still firmly fastened to the boat.

Mirth ensues.

[jdmidwest]

1 hour ago, Terrierman said:

Now let's talk about ramp Karma:

1.  Watched a guy back his rig, in fiddle didle around, finally jump in the boat and the truck promptly followed him into the lake.  I can still hear him him yelling "Get somebody!  Get somebody!"

2.  Griz and I watched a guy with a fancy new Topwater and new trailer run right over the trailer of the only other rig in the parking lot (besides us).  I learned some new French words that day.

3.  Watched some asian guy launch his boat and trailer too with the trailer still firmly fastened to the boat.

Mirth ensues.

Murphy gets some of them.

[DADAKOTA]

Watched a guy back his drag type glass boat with the big shiny super loud engine into the Missouri river.  He spent a long time yelling at his GF as to what she needed to do when the boat started floating to get it off the trailer.   He backed her in a little deep and the boat started floating off the trailer.  Her first mistake was putting it in forward.  As she headed back toward the trailer he started yelling at her to stop.  Apparently she thought the Hot Foot was a brake and punched it.  She stopped when the nose of the boat went through the rear window of his pickup.  Then the yelling really got going. 

Same ramp dame day saw a cruiser on a trailer with small wheels start down the ramp with the outdrive  down.  The skeg  scratched a nice line halfway down the ramp and finally bound the entire process up.  Ended up going back up the ramp till the tilt could finally tip the motor up.

Dropped my FIL's 22 foot Sea Ray into Stockton one day.  After parking I was walking down the ramp and a guy hands me a bunk board.  Said he watched it fall off the trailer as I went up the hill.  Finally got back to join the family after I left to complete some trailer maintenance.

A buddy (RIP Ron) had fished at Lake Jacomo one morning and went up to get his trailer.  Jumped in his truck and headed for the ramp, but the trailer stayed in the parking spot.  Someone had unbuttoned his trailer and took his insert.  Lowlives. 

Was tossing a jerkbait one spring across from the Jacomo ramp.  All of a sudden there were emergency vehicles everywhere.  A guy was taking his boat out and put his 3 year old in his car seat.  Backed the trailer in and went to load the boat.  Car came out of gear and into the lake it went, child an all.  Luckily someone had a crowbar and the guy managed to break out the rear window and save the child before he drowned.  Never saw that yellow boat on the lake again.  Never leave children in the vehicle while you load/unload the boat.     

 

[fshndoug]

good advice on the children Dave