Neighbors wild ride, backwards

[sandman2234]

Back in my younger, bass fishin', Wild Turkey consuming days, I might have been one of those providing entertainment.... :O

I KNOW i provided a few laughs while behind the wheel in one of my few moments at a boat ramp. Friend's ski boat was always funded by him, he would never accept contributions to the cause, so one day I suggested I pull the boat to the ramp for him, while he was still at work, and he could meet us at the ramp. Good ole '66 had plenty of power to pull it, and the boat really wasn't that heavy, plus the positraction rear end had to help on that slick moss covered ramp. What I didn't bet on was the carburetor float level and what that ramp would do once I got right at the waters edge... plus the fact that everybody knows '66 corvette parking brakes aren't for keeping the vehicle still, much less on a ramp. So here I am, with the car in a perilous state of not wanting to run right, standard shift, steep ramp, heavy boat and the water is getting deeper every second...and I made a deal with my deal sweet Lord, if he would let me get out of this mess, I would NEVER hook another boat trailer to the back of that '66 Corvette as long as I lived. Needless to say, I haven't been back to a boat ramp with that car since, with or without a trailer. I am sure I provided plenty of entertainment to last everyone present for years to come. Just glad it was before the internet and cell phone cameras, or I would be seeing the video for years to come.
David from jax

 

[leonz]

Wwweeeeeeellllll,


I guess I should relate the tale of "The New Boat Owner"-not me but courtesy of The Readers Digest.

SO anyway this gentleman test drives a new Demo boat on the water and decides he likes the power and perfomance and takes one off the lot with a trailer.

Same day or next day (sorry the story is several years old) he takes the boat on the water and starts piloting at high spped on clear open water and after a bit the boat does not do what the demo boat did the day before when it had lots of power and energy and speed to boot.

So he calls the salesman that sold him the boat when he was still out on the water quite aways away and tells him to come pick his boat up at the ramp as it is not doing what he thinks it is supposed to do, and the salesman was very happy to oblige him and try to find out what the problem is.

So his salesman arrives at the boat launch with his trailer to take the boat back to the shop to resolve the issue and make his customer happy and he is waiting for the customer to come to the ramp with his boat to hook and drag it on the rollers and set it on the carpet skids he notices something peculiar when the boat is being nosed into the launch ramp to exit the water;

The poor fellow left the trailer attached completely on the boat and was trolling along with the trailer under the boat..............................................................................................

I would not admit to that if my life depended on it if I spent any time on the water, this person had no boating experience apparently................................

 

[mullins87]

I welded a pair of spring loaded swing down jacks to the rear of my flatbed. They keep the strain of loading off the rear of the trailer, and when not needed, they neatly tuck up under the rear and you can't even see them.

Since everyone is telling boat ramp stories, I'll share mine involving a friend and his ski boat. He backs the boat down the ramp, but stops about 50' from the waters edge. At that point he gets out and begins to put the plug in, unstrap the rear of the boat, and then goes to unhook the winch strap. Now this boat was sitting on a Holsclaw trailer on a steeper than normal ramp. For those of you that don't know what a Holsclaw trailer is, instead of having carpet covered wood bunkers that the boat sits on, it has rollers....and lots of them. I ask him if it is wise to unhook it and he tells me he unloads it this way all the time. I say Okay and climb in the boat. He and I are going to take the boat around to our dock and my dad is going to drive the truck and trailer back to the house. He climbs in the boat and dad gets in the truck to finish backing the boat into the water. At this point, my friend and I are in the boat and all the sudden the boat stands straight up and slides right off the trailer!!! I'm thinking this is great, we're going to have to find a way to get this boat back on the trailer. Well, we didn't have to. The boat slid all the way down the ramp and into the water. Well, at that point I start looking for water coming up through the floor. It didn't, but I told my friend that I wasn't going anywhere in that boat until we pull it out and take a look at the bottom. I tell dad to back the trailer in the water so we can load the boat. About that time an older fellow that had watched the whole thing came walking over and said, "Boys, I don't think I've ever seen a boat unloaded that way!"

That was over 20 years ago, and we still laugh about it today!!! I'm laughing right now just thinking about it.:laughing:

 

[Iplayfarmer]

One more reason I'm glad my trailer has a tilt deck.

Also many more reasons why I'm glad I sold my boat. Biggest Oops I ever did was to not put the plugs in. I'm sure given enough time, though, I'd have had some embarassing stories to tell.

 

[North Country]

All this talk of tractors and boat ramps and nobody's posted this???

Swamped SUVs, multiple tractors, drunk french Canadians - it has it all!

YouTube - ‪Funniest boat launch ever!‬‏

 

[JB4310]

All this talk of tractors and boat ramps and nobody's posted this???

Swamped SUVs, multiple tractors, drunk french Canadians - it has it all!

YouTube - ‪Funniest boat launch ever!‬‏

:laughing::laughing::laughing: :confused2::confused2::confused2:

 

[jonyyuma]

Years ago, I went to Mckellar lake to launch. There had been a spill of lard or something very much like it. It slimed a line on all the boats, very messy. But you should have seen the antics of the folks trying to pull up a very slick ramp.Some wild burnouts and plenty of spicy language. I wasn't laughing too hard when it was my turn to pull.