mishap at the boat ramp

skennelly

https://youtu.be/mMIEOd1RtDE

LaRea

It's a glorious time of year for ramp-watching.  Bring a cooler.

J3ff

And the story gets a little more interesting... good lesson for everyone.. 

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aero3113

Sold for $18,000.00

ruggerole

A similar thing happened to a friend years ago. He bought a 21 foot Larson from the Detroit Boat Show. Driving to the launch for his very first adventure, another driver blew through a red light at an intersection and hit the boat/trailer. Knocking the axle sideways. Loaded the boat/trailer on a flatbed and launched it the same way as the video. He had a better outcome. Never got water over the stern.

Dream_Inn

That just made me cringe and wanted to do something while watching the video!  How can somebody be THAT stupid!  WOW!

Dude_Himself

Gotta be rich to be that foolish. Love the guy bailing with the rails submerged. What a sad video.

Dude_Himself

I'll share my two most embarrassing moments:

1. My first "real" boat (over 20'). Bought July 3rd. Plug was missing, so the dealer threw in a rubber stopper plug. I mentioned we're heading straight to the ramp (a ramp we had never been) so the dealer put the plug in and tightened it with a wrench. Again, this is a rubber stopper plug - not the right type - and the thru bolt was brass. It was also used - it wasn't a new plug by any means. Drug the boat 2 hours to our new, bigger ramp. Columbia Island Marina near DC - you launch, then disconnect the trailer and drop it in one space and the tow vehicle in another. So I launched, motor fired right up, left my wife and BIL with the boat and dropped the trailer, then the tow vehicle. Someone taps my shoulder as I'm grabbing ice and beer at the little marina store - my boat is SINKING! Yeah, that brass bolt snapped when the dealer put the wrench on it, and once launched the plug came out and floated off. I set my ice and beer down, sprinted to the tow vehicle, hooked the trailer, drove down the sidewalk to bypass the line of boaters waiting to splash (waiting because some idiot left his wife and BIL sinking at the ramp), and pulled it. No harm, no foul, water never made it to the engine thankfully. 

Drained the boat, ice and beer were gone, bought a real plug and more ice (marina wouldn't sell me a second 24-pack of beer the same day), and had a soggy maiden voyage.

2. First time with the 280EC on a shallow-angled lake ramp with no current and a light tail wind. I'm so used to a steep, slippery ramp with 6kts of current and wake from jackass boaters in the channel. The steep ramp keeps the trailer from floating, and I use the current to keep the boat against the dock when I first pull in, then all I need is for the wife to push the bow out and I motor right over the trailer.

In these PERFECT conditions I could NOT get the boat on the trailer. The trailer floats, the boat floats, the tailwind keeps edging the trailer sideways, and the ramp is too narrow to approach except dead-on. The wife has to keep the kids alive (they're suicidal little $#@$#@% when I need them to sit and behave quietly for a moment).

After 10 minutes of thinking about the problem (thankfully this was before 7am and we were the only ones around) a pontoon boat arrived - of course by then I'm sitting on the swim platform with my feet holding the trailer straight facing the wrong **** way. I'm also drinking a 20oz Monster, which he mistook for a beer. Guy laughed at me, but offered to help. With him holding the trailer in place I pulled out a bit, executed a flawless 180° pirouette in the big single like a pro, and pulled right on. He showed me the 4 PVC pipes full of cement he strapped to the rear of his trailer - takes it off when he goes to steeper ramps.

69fastback

I found myself talking to the video, telling them no, but they didn't listen.  Unreal what some people will do. 

Willhound

Well, it WAS a nice boat. Wrong on so many levels. Surprised the tires on that little trailer didn't collapse with all that water in the boat. But Hey! That L.E.D. speaker's got game!