Stupid things done to your boat.

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Permalink Reply by Chad Simon on March 16, 2009 at 8:48pm

first trip with the new boat to banks in april last year i bought some cheap a@@ cover, and put it on with bungee cords. stopped in monroe to check the trailer bearings, and those f*&^*(()) bungee cords but some really really nice divets into my brand new boat. not to mention the cover had been striped to shreads by this point. i was able to take back the cover, but those stupid divets stare at me everytime i blink at my boat. i have a really nice cover that doesn't require bungee cords now!

Permalink Reply by Aaron Christel on March 16, 2009 at 9:14pm

When I first got my boat, I was storing it at my Dad's house. He has a really steep driveway that makes a ? shape at the bottom. I had hooked up the boat and was being really careful to make sure the lights where working properly because the last time out they where cutting in and out. So, I started up the driveway and got almost to the top, about 150 yards and BANG!!! The whole truck shook. I looked in the rearview mirror to see the boat traveling back down the driveway and picking up speed. The tire caught in the mud and turned the boat into the trees and across the front lawn twards the house. I had jumped out of the truck (fortunatly remembering to put it in park) and was running down the driveway after it. It had stopped in the wet grass with the prop no more than a foot from the deck. If it had turned the other way, it would have went over about an 8 foot bank and landed on a parked van. The only damage was a tail light, and a destroyed flower garden. I will put a pic up on my page. Really, less than a foot. I was so worried about the lights, I didn't lock down the hitch and it bent the hooks on the chains straight up. So, lesson--- Check everything, not just one thing!

Permalink Reply by Aaron Christel on March 16, 2009 at 9:17pm

Pics are up on my page. It's unreal.

Permalink Reply by David Parnicky on March 17, 2009 at 10:46pm

Well I bought my first boat in February '08 and haven't done anything TOO stupid yet. I have definately had a few close calls though. So here are my boating mishaps so far beginning with the most recent.

1) I was launching at Clear Lake in Skagit County last Sunday in 30 mph winds with higher gusts..there is no dock at Clear Lake and I was by myself so I beached my boat and placed a "large" rock on top of my docking rope on the shore. I went to park my truck and watched the rope start sliding underneath the rock at a good pace. I threw the truck into park as quickly as possible and broke into a dead sprint into ankle deep water to barely catch the end of the rope! I was less than half a second away from having to go for a swim in 41 degree water ;) !!!! Needless to say...the next rock I used was a "BOULDER"!

2) Left the boat plug out on day 3 of the Jamboree at Banks last year and had my Tracker's slow bilge on for a good 45 mins draining all the water out, needless to say it was a slow ride to my first spot.

3) Had the trolling motor die on Big Lake in a windstorm one day and hit the corner of a dock just right so that it put a small dent in my boat (This is one time I am happy to have an aluminum boat!)

4) Didn't buy the maximum HP rating for an outboard for my boat (not to mention its a 4stroke ;) )

While this isn't a huge list I feel like I did a decent job of having a few "sad sack" moments for one year :)

Permalink Reply by Mike Stahlman on March 17, 2009 at 11:14pm

Oh ya I forgot to say this. I left the Transom Saver on my motor when I was at Lake Washington in January this year. Could not figure out for the life of me why the motor was hard to turn and I kept cavitating when I tried to get on plain. Thought I had spun a hub. It finally broke and I had to drive to Kent with my motor half up and pick up a new Transom Saver.

Permalink Reply by Mike Bess on March 18, 2009 at 10:42am

Okay I guess I will chime in.... 5 years ago on Banks in front of Steamboat Rock we were on good fish- just fun fishing. The wind started to really blow and before you knew it, I almost had the big motor piled up on those boulders. I ran back to the cockpit, fired up the big motor and gunned it with the troll motor down. Bent the shaft so bad that we had to go home...

Got my first boat back in 1996- Skeeter of course. Priester was nice enough to deliver it to a friends house in Moses. Let just say it was kind of a "party weekend" and I had a few cocktails, well enough to let someone I really didn't know drive my brand new boat. He proceeded to T-Bone a cement pillar on the I-90 bridge an hour after delivery. Thank goodness he was off pad! Lesson learned to say the least......

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