Some of the best ones were recently released from the home. Feel free to
contribute.

1) Keuka Lake State Park (NY), two weeks ago: On the ramp adjacent to the
one I was using, captain pulls his 23-ish ft ship out of the water,
forgetting to first lift his outdrive. Interesting noise, and when the skeg
cleared the wet part of the ramp, sound followed by smoke, like if a highway
crew was etching the pavement but forgot to turn on the cooling water. Nice.
Then, he figured maybe he could back it into the water again. Not. Made more
nice sounds, this time a scary creaking sound from the transom. Pulls it
back out again. So....the guy next to me on the other side runs over and
says "Ya know...I have a couple of 2x8s - you could drive the trailer wheel
up on them, and then lift the outdrive". Captain says "Thanks, but I don't
see how that's gonna help". Without waiting for an explanation, puts truck
in gear again and proceeds 200 feet across the parking lot trailing smoke
and sparks. (It was dark - nice light show). No idea how he resolved the
problem.

2) Irondequoit Bay NY, this past Sunday: Two people in their 40s are
standing by their boat, waiting for person #3 to arrive with the trailer. He
arrives. He's the kind of guy who, when you see him on the road, you say to
your kids "When I'm that old, PLEASE take my keys away...please!" In the
process of making 15 approaches, he manages to put on wheel of the trailer
onto the dock, then puts the trailer at a 45 degree angle toward the
adjacent ramp, and other assorted amusements. All other vehicles pulled away
and the person taking $$ kept any newcomers from entering the hazard zone
for the moment. Finally, he was ordered out of his car and a park employee
backed the trailer in, over the objections of one of the 2 statues who were
still standing on the dock with the boat, offering absolutely no guidance to
great grandpa.

Amazing.

If it wasn't for all the "Darwin Awards" I think I would give up boating.

"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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Some of the best ones were recently released from the home. Feel free to
contribute.

1) Keuka Lake State Park (NY), two weeks ago: On the ramp adjacent to the
one I was using, captain pulls his 23-ish ft ship out of the water,
forgetting to first lift his outdrive. Interesting noise, and when the
skeg cleared the wet part of the ramp, sound followed by smoke, like if a
highway crew was etching the pavement but forgot to turn on the cooling
water. Nice. Then, he figured maybe he could back it into the water again.
Not. Made more nice sounds, this time a scary creaking sound from the
transom. Pulls it back out again. So....the guy next to me on the other
side runs over and says "Ya know...I have a couple of 2x8s - you could
drive the trailer wheel up on them, and then lift the outdrive". Captain
says "Thanks, but I don't see how that's gonna help". Without waiting for
an explanation, puts truck in gear again and proceeds 200 feet across the
parking lot trailing smoke and sparks. (It was dark - nice light show). No
idea how he resolved the problem.

2) Irondequoit Bay NY, this past Sunday: Two people in their 40s are
standing by their boat, waiting for person #3 to arrive with the trailer.
He arrives. He's the kind of guy who, when you see him on the road, you
say to your kids "When I'm that old, PLEASE take my keys away...please!"
In the process of making 15 approaches, he manages to put on wheel of the
trailer onto the dock, then puts the trailer at a 45 degree angle toward
the adjacent ramp, and other assorted amusements. All other vehicles
pulled away and the person taking $$ kept any newcomers from entering the
hazard zone for the moment. Finally, he was ordered out of his car and a
park employee backed the trailer in, over the objections of one of the 2
statues who were still standing on the dock with the boat, offering
absolutely no guidance to great grandpa.

Amazing.

Saratoga Lake State Boat launch-July 2nd 2005

Saw a 70 y/o fisherman tried to drive his outboard Fishmaster onto his
trailer,a bit too fast.Nose of his boat ended up knocking winch post into
back of his pick up bed.Meanwhile his 2 frumpy grandsons aka PS2 anchors
(15-18 or so) stood by helplessly doing nothing to assist,1 I believe was
playing on his PSP.

Wayne

Waterford,NY-Erie Canal Lock 1 is re opened and fixed,woo hoo!

"WKR" wrote in message
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Saratoga Lake State Boat launch-July 2nd 2005

Saw a 70 y/o fisherman tried to drive his outboard Fishmaster onto his
trailer,a bit too fast.Nose of his boat ended up knocking winch post into
back of his pick up bed.Meanwhile his 2 frumpy grandsons aka PS2 anchors
(15-18 or so) stood by helplessly doing nothing to assist,1 I believe was
playing on his PSP.

Wayne

Waterford,NY-Erie Canal Lock 1 is re opened and fixed,woo hoo!




Some of the funniest times we have include sitting at the local boat ramp.

My wife and I grab an ice cream cone at Dairy Queen, drive down to the Muni
dock and watch the entertainment.....most often jet boaters arguing with
power boaters on who has priority. You also get the folks who don't have a
clue on how to back a trailer down the ramp.

Always a good time. ;-)

"*JimH*" wrote in message news:4K6dnXcV8rew4kDfRVn-

Some of the funniest times we have include sitting at the local boat ramp.

My wife and I grab an ice cream cone at Dairy Queen, drive down to the
Muni dock and watch the entertainment

place I used to keep my boat some years ago had a public ramp right across
the channel from the marina. There was a group of about 4 or 5 old codger
townies used to come down of a saturday, set on the dock by the ramp in
their beach chairs with libations, and hold up score cards for each
launch/retrieval, a la gymnastics. 7.8..... 8.1.....7.6.....7.6.......
you get the drift.

Great entertainment, from both sides.

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:30:46 -0400, "John Gaquin"
wrote:


"*JimH*" wrote in message news:4K6dnXcV8rew4kDfRVn-

Some of the funniest times we have include sitting at the local boat ramp.

My wife and I grab an ice cream cone at Dairy Queen, drive down to the
Muni dock and watch the entertainment

place I used to keep my boat some years ago had a public ramp right across
the channel from the marina. There was a group of about 4 or 5 old codger
townies used to come down of a saturday, set on the dock by the ramp in
their beach chairs with libations, and hold up score cards for each
launch/retrieval, a la gymnastics. 7.8..... 8.1.....7.6.....7.6.......
you get the drift.

Great entertainment, from both sides.

ROTFL!!!

"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:30:46 -0400, "John Gaquin"
wrote:


"*JimH*" wrote in message news:4K6dnXcV8rew4kDfRVn-

Some of the funniest times we have include sitting at the local boat
ramp.

My wife and I grab an ice cream cone at Dairy Queen, drive down to the
Muni dock and watch the entertainment

place I used to keep my boat some years ago had a public ramp right
across
the channel from the marina. There was a group of about 4 or 5 old
codger
townies used to come down of a saturday, set on the dock by the ramp in
their beach chairs with libations, and hold up score cards for each
launch/retrieval, a la gymnastics. 7.8..... 8.1.....7.6.....7.6.......
you get the drift.

Great entertainment, from both sides.

ROTFL!!!

Yes. It seems there are always folks camped out at boat ramps, and I'm sure
its for the "entertainment".

But I had one close call, that was saved by a bystander. By myself, drove a
22' Master-Craft onto its trailer, cinched it up, got in the truck to pull
her out, and the winch failed. The guy sitting in his lawn chair jumped up
and started waving his hands. I stopped in time, but if I would have kept
pulling, I'm sure the boat could have fell of the end of the trailer. On
that particular ramp, I couldn't see any of the boat/trailer when pulling
up. I always have somebody watching now, if I can see anything.

--
-Netsock

"It's just about going fast...that's all..."
http://home.columbus.rr.com/ckg/

"John Gaquin" wrote in message
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"*JimH*" wrote in message news:4K6dnXcV8rew4kDfRVn-

Some of the funniest times we have include sitting at the local boat
ramp.

My wife and I grab an ice cream cone at Dairy Queen, drive down to the
Muni dock and watch the entertainment

place I used to keep my boat some years ago had a public ramp right across
the channel from the marina. There was a group of about 4 or 5 old codger
townies used to come down of a saturday, set on the dock by the ramp in
their beach chairs with libations, and hold up score cards for each
launch/retrieval, a la gymnastics. 7.8..... 8.1.....7.6.....7.6.......
you get the drift.

Great entertainment, from both sides.


I've been a 7.3 lately. Had to remove the guide posts from my trailer
because the clamps were crushing the frame. Haven't hacked together an
alternative yet, but the idea's perfect: Two plastic woodworking clamps from
HD, two extra cheap 4' kiddie fishing poles, two styrofoam balls (from craft
shop), painted dayglo red. Clamp on gunwales. Ba da bing.