General Outdoor Discussion
Boat launch idiots!
Thanks for the laugh you gave me!!!
But, you are right...Make is a safe and happy experience!!!
Last couple weeks I've been fishing some pontoon slips, guys are starting to take them out for the season, some of them are a real treat to watch. Of course they put them in back in May now's the time to attempt to get them out. So that's a total of one launch, one load for the season. If two try and load at the same time, you can figure launch will be tied up for a half hour for sure. Other day guy had a monster toon, with water really low he had to back his toy rice truck almost completely into water. Then the fun began, they couldn't get boat centered on trailer, the pushing and pulling and yelling began !! Luckily I was able to get out on other side, didn't stick around until when and if they got it out. But is was a great show................
OMG, went out to the lake fishing, going back in to load up the boat, there is a large bass boat trying to get onto the trailer, in cockeyed at the dock, says NO power loading on the dock, you guessed it, he is gunning that 200HP motor to try to get the boat on the trailer, took him a while.
The guy waiting to load in front of me pulls up to the dock, all of a sudden, here comes a pontoon boat backing in, the guy says they need to move the pontoon back on the trailer. they try that, he pulls forward, I swear the pontoon was going to flip sideways on the ramp, he could not get it on the trailer straight, it would flip to either side. after about 15 minutes and 6 or 8 tries of reloading, he finally got it where they could eventually and gingerly get it up the ramp and off to the side to try and straighten it out. There were a few words exchanged between the pontoon guy and the boat guy in front of me !!
The guy in front of me gets his out after that in about 5 minutes.
All this time boats are starting to back up in the cue to get off the water, about 4 or 5 of them, finally, it's my turn, another boat pulls up to the dock, making it full, as I am almost to the car, another guy starts backing in !!! I tell him, give me 5, i'll be outta there.
I don't know where he was expecting to launch, the dock was full. I get mine out in 5 minutes and I can see about 6 boats waiting to load up.
it was a real cluster when I finally pulled out, ...the guys with the pontoon, were still trying to figure out the pontoon when I pulled out of the lot, 20 minutes after they loaded.
one of the more enjoyable ??? days and frustrating to say the least.