On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:17:09 -0400, W1TEF wrote:

Ok, not so much.

http://s807.photobucket.com/albums/y...00 390657.jpg

Heh - typical launch ramp escapades. Launch the boat without taking
off the bow line or the tie down straps, didn't lock the emergency
brake and away they go.

Even funnier - they panicked, started the engine and manuevered the
boat into one of the empty slips, then cut the bow line and tie downs
and the whole thing sank in 25 feet of water - all while drifting
under the docks and boats.

I've been boating since I was 12 and I've seen just about everything
there is to see at a launch ramp, but it never fails to amuse me when
things like this happen.

Other than that, I wonder how the rest of their day went? :-)

On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:32:23 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:17:09 -0400, W1TEF wrote:

Ok, not so much.

http://s807.photobucket.com/albums/y...00 390657.jpg

Heh - typical launch ramp escapades. Launch the boat without taking
off the bow line or the tie down straps, didn't lock the emergency
brake and away they go.

Even funnier - they panicked, started the engine and manuevered the
boat into one of the empty slips, then cut the bow line and tie downs
and the whole thing sank in 25 feet of water - all while drifting
under the docks and boats.

I've been boating since I was 12 and I've seen just about everything
there is to see at a launch ramp, but it never fails to amuse me when
things like this happen.

Other than that, I wonder how the rest of their day went? :-)

We hollered at them not to cut the lines because the boat was the only
thing holding the whole rig up off the bottom and the marina owner
went to get his tractor so we could haul it out with chains, but they
didn't listen.

OH well...