Amusing story from last night

[mellen_mpz]

Just thought I'd share what I saw at the boat ramp last night. I was in my boat in the water waiting so all I could do was watch

There was a guy pulling his pontoon with an outboard engine out of the water (small pontoon boat...maybe 20' or so). First off, he didnt have the boat all the way onto the trailer and did not secure it with the ratchet strap. As he began to pull the boat out of the water he was dragging the outboard all the way up the ramp since he didnt trailer it. Everyone was yelling at him to stop so he did. He then pulled the outboard up and the boat rocked backwards onto the ramp! He then had to have people sit in the bow of the pontoon to get it to pivot back onto the trailer so he could back it down into the water again. No further incident!

Friggin idiots. I was just shaking my head in amazement the whole time

[thethrillofspeed]

One of these windy days I want to grab a cooler and a chair and just watch the launch ramp and relax instead of having to deal with the idiots while loading my boat.

[MalibuTime]

One of these windy days I want to grab a cooler and a chair and just watch the launch ramp and relax instead of having to deal with the idiots while loading my boat.

With a camcorder, of course.

[mellen_mpz]

One of these windy days I want to grab a cooler and a chair and just watch the launch ramp and relax instead of having to deal with the idiots while loading my boat.

Lake Havasu in AZ has a ramp (site 6) that has become quite a spectacle. Its a tough boat ramp to load as it is very steep and very slick. The locals all go there after dark to watch everyone load their boats. Sometimes there's a good 150 people on the dock to enjoy the show. We went and watched for a couple hours over the July 4th weekend and it was a blast. Some of those people just have no common sense

[Michigan boarder]

One of these windy days I want to grab a cooler and a chair and just watch the launch ramp and relax instead of having to deal with the idiots while loading my boat.

Lake Havasu in AZ has a ramp (site 6) that has become quite a spectacle. Its a tough boat ramp to load as it is very steep and very slick. The locals all go there after dark to watch everyone load their boats. Sometimes there's a good 150 people on the dock to enjoy the show. We went and watched for a couple hours over the July 4th weekend and it was a blast. Some of those people just have no common sense

That is funny. Our lake is narrow and long, and the launch is in a direction about 10 o'clock from our pier on the other side of the lake. I have witnessed with binoculars some funny stuff, as well as hearing people shouting insults at each other as they botch up their maneuver.

Once on a snowmobile trail we came around a long bend doing about 60mph and hit a ridiculous jump, sent the first two riders off their sleds and into the field and the last two had time to slow down and avoid the bad spot. So...we then sat there for an hour, off to the side and watched about 100 sleds, one at a time hit this thing. Some looked like they knew the trail well and throttled into it, others went endo. We called the club asking for better signage the next day, but it sure was a good show.

[Baddog]

I do so enjoy that wonderful entertainment called: "Idiot Watch". Perhaps we could get David Hasselhoff to star . . . . .

[awilco]

Last weekend I saw a guy almost sink his boat on the trailer because he did not take the tie down straps off.

He was directing his wife to back down the ramp and got very mad and started yelling at her because she would not back further down the ramp. She stopped when water started coming in her drivers door. After she calmed him down and explained there may be something holding the boat on the trailer he "allowed" her to pull forward. When he noticed the straps he forcefully took them off and then threw them up into the boat bouncing them off something in the boat hitting and breaking the windshield.

Some times I go to the ramp to eat lunch and watch .

Edited July 22, 2009 by awilco

[mellen_mpz]

Last weekend I saw a guy almost sink his boat on the trailer because he did not take the trailering tie down straps off.

He was directing his wife to back down the ramp and got very mad and started yelling at her because she would not back further down the ramp. She stopped when water started coming in her dirivers door. After she calmed him down and explained there may be something holding the boat on the trailer he "allowed" her to pull forward. When he noticed the straps he forcefully took them off and then threw them up into the boat bouncing them off something in the boat hitting and breaking the windshield.

Thats awesome. We were talking to a cop at the lake last year. He told us that he saw a man yelling at his wife from his boat while she was tryin to back the trailer down the ramp. Apparently she yelled "Phuck you", and proceeded to back the truck all the way into the water (OVER THE ROOF) in anger. She then walked away with her middle finger up. hahaha, wish I could have seen that.

[Baddog]

Last weekend I saw a guy almost sink his boat on the trailer because he did not take the tie down straps off.

He was directing his wife to back down the ramp and got very mad and started yelling at her because she would not back further down the ramp. She stopped when water started coming in her drivers door. After she calmed him down and explained there may be something holding the boat on the trailer he "allowed" her to pull forward. When he noticed the straps he forcefully took them off and then threw them up into the boat bouncing them off something in the boat hitting and breaking the windshield.

Some times I go to the ramp to eat lunch and watch .

Definitely not a good time to be sharing water with a person in that state.

[Michigan boarder]

Last weekend I saw a guy almost sink his boat on the trailer because he did not take the tie down straps off.

He was directing his wife to back down the ramp and got very mad and started yelling at her because she would not back further down the ramp. She stopped when water started coming in her drivers door. After she calmed him down and explained there may be something holding the boat on the trailer he "allowed" her to pull forward. When he noticed the straps he forcefully took them off and then threw them up into the boat bouncing them off something in the boat hitting and breaking the windshield.

Some times I go to the ramp to eat lunch and watch .

That's a riot. A couple of years ago on a guy's weekend we were waiting our turn to pull out while a guy and his wife were putting in. Guy is angry, yelling at her, etc. He was WAY over the top. There are 6 of us on the BU on the other side of the pier, radio on, drinking beers, laughing at each other, etc. Finally he tells her to put it in park and he'll launch it. Gets it launched all angry, leaves her standing there holding the rope while he parks the truck. My buddy walks up to her and says "You want us to kick his a** for you?". She says yes, and make him remember it, etc. Then starts making it very clear that she is joking, and not to hurt him. He comes back to the boat and we are all staring at him, 3 of us are on the pier, etc. They hop in their boat and idle away. We keep watching them, back to arguing, and she is pointing back at us while he is looking over his shoulder. He hammers it and leaves. I'll bet she has been looking for that opportunity again ever since.

[Baddog]

Last weekend I saw a guy almost sink his boat on the trailer because he did not take the tie down straps off.

He was directing his wife to back down the ramp and got very mad and started yelling at her because she would not back further down the ramp. She stopped when water started coming in her drivers door. After she calmed him down and explained there may be something holding the boat on the trailer he "allowed" her to pull forward. When he noticed the straps he forcefully took them off and then threw them up into the boat bouncing them off something in the boat hitting and breaking the windshield.

Some times I go to the ramp to eat lunch and watch .

That's a riot. A couple of years ago on a guy's weekend we were waiting our turn to pull out while a guy and his wife were putting in. Guy is angry, yelling at her, etc. He was WAY over the top. There are 6 of us on the BU on the other side of the pier, radio on, drinking beers, laughing at each other, etc. Finally he tells her to put it in park and he'll launch it. Gets it launched all angry, leaves her standing there holding the rope while he parks the truck. My buddy walks up to her and says "You want us to kick his a** for you?". She says yes, and make him remember it, etc. Then starts making it very clear that she is joking, and not to hurt him. He comes back to the boat and we are all staring at him, 3 of us are on the pier, etc. They hop in their boat and idle away. We keep watching them, back to arguing, and she is pointing back at us while he is looking over his shoulder. He hammers it and leaves. I'll bet she has been looking for that opportunity again ever since.

Good of you to offer, but with guys like that it would make zero difference.

[Jimmy Buffett]

Took this picture at a boat ramp in Charleston, SC last fall. Tide was coming in, too!

[BillSnook]

I sometimes wish I would have taken pictures of the crack head (somewhere in her 40s-60s, it was hard to tell), buck naked using the boat launch as a kiddie pool. Splashing, singing, and generally having a great time. Unfortunately, I was trying to retrieve my boat from said ramp. At one point I thought my wife might just bring the boat in right over the top of her. Good family fun that one was. Quite an education for the kiddies.

[Macutak]

My stories are generated from Lake Powell's Bullfrog ramp. They are freaking about the tiger muscle and making everyone show up with a completly dry bilge and tanks or suffer a line up to have 140 degree water flushed through your system. I am certain that this is going to result in a multitude of sunk boats from idiots who leave their plugs out. I really want to set up a stand on the dock and do a photographic documentary. Guys have a way of blaming everything on their wife. I want to see how they come up with one for this. Probably her fault cause she is backing the truck. Unless she is in the boat and then it is because she is in the the boat.

[BlastRlxi]

Rule #1 of happy boating is NEVER yell at the wife.

[Bill_AirJunky]

Rule #1 of happy boating is NEVER yell at the wife.

Geez, all this time I thought that was life in general. Every now & then my mouth writes a check my a55 can't cash & I get reminded what it's like in the doghouse.

[BlastRlxi]

Rule #1 of happy boating is NEVER yell at the wife.

Geez, all this time I thought that was life in general. Every now & then my mouth writes a check my a55 can't cash & I get reminded what it's like in the doghouse.

You're right, but it seems to apply double on the boat and especially at the ramp.

[stewart]

One of these windy days I want to grab a cooler and a chair and just watch the launch ramp and relax instead of having to deal with the idiots while loading my boat.

Lake Havasu in AZ has a ramp (site 6) that has become quite a spectacle. Its a tough boat ramp to load as it is very steep and very slick. The locals all go there after dark to watch everyone load their boats. Sometimes there's a good 150 people on the dock to enjoy the show. We went and watched for a couple hours over the July 4th weekend and it was a blast. Some of those people just have no common sense

When I lived there we launched there all the time. One lane entrance curves around to a 3 lane ramp that you back into. The ramp is fairly steep.

My wife doesn't like putting the boat on the trailer, so she is the designated truck driver. One year there were quite a few people on the dock with numbers and laughing or cheering the crowd. Anyway, there sere a couple of yahoos blocking the ramp, so she drove around and back right in. I put the boat on, clicked the strap and away we went. 20-30 seconds flat. She got all 10's and cheers....

[thethrillofspeed]

One year there were quite a few people on the dock with numbers and laughing or cheering the crowd.

That would be a great way to watch the activities at the launch ramp and teach a few people a much needed lesson.

I had my camper on my pickup this weekend. That sure got lots of attention at the launch ramp. Lots of people think that is really hard, but it really is much easier than launching the jet ski without the camper.

[Bill_AirJunky]

Rule #1 of happy boating is NEVER yell at the wife.

Geez, all this time I thought that was life in general. Every now & then my mouth writes a check my a55 can't cash & I get reminded what it's like in the doghouse.

You're right, but it seems to apply double on the boat and especially at the ramp.

Very true. I think the scoring system would be a riot on a busy ramp.

[luvtheBU]

Yep yelling at the wife is definetly not the way to make her feel confident, my EX learned that the hard way, turns out I am a pretty kick A$$ boat laucher, boat retriever, boat docker and river navigater without his sorry butt. So I am always reassuring to my hubby now as he is new to boating and I want him to adore it as much as I do. I will admit though it was sooo hard to turn over the reins and let him put it on the trailer, but then i figured wth if I can do it so should he. I do it better hee hee hee, but I didn't tell him that, he knew it shouldn't be cockeyed on the bunks I didn't need to hammer it in. I only yell at him when his son shows up with more than one friend now.

[Ndawg12]

Yep yelling at the wife is definetly not the way to make her feel confident, my EX learned that the hard way, turns out I am a pretty kick A$$ boat laucher, boat retriever, boat docker and river navigater without his sorry butt. So I am always reassuring to my hubby now as he is new to boating and I want him to adore it as much as I do. I will admit though it was sooo hard to turn over the reins and let him put it on the trailer, but then i figured wth if I can do it so should he. I do it better hee hee hee, but I didn't tell him that, he knew it shouldn't be cockeyed on the bunks I didn't need to hammer it in. I only yell at him when his son shows up with more than one friend now.

How hard is it to navigate a river?

Try this some time!!

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[luvtheBU]

Yep yelling at the wife is definetly not the way to make her feel confident, my EX learned that the hard way, turns out I am a pretty kick A$$ boat laucher, boat retriever, boat docker and river navigater without his sorry butt. So I am always reassuring to my hubby now as he is new to boating and I want him to adore it as much as I do. I will admit though it was sooo hard to turn over the reins and let him put it on the trailer, but then i figured wth if I can do it so should he. I do it better hee hee hee, but I didn't tell him that, he knew it shouldn't be cockeyed on the bunks I didn't need to hammer it in. I only yell at him when his son shows up with more than one friend now.

How hard is it to navigate a river?

Try this some time!!

Dang you win..... In my defense my EX made it seem really hard and totally had me freaked out about it, the only hard part about it is the low spots which go from 10 ft to 2 ft and the sand bars all along the way that change weekly depending on the flow. Last night my DH hit one in idle, glad I decided to drop where I did, if he'd have hit it doing 25 we'd be screwed for the rest of the year.

[Baddog]

Basic rule on the wife: She is always not at fault, even if she is.