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Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile
Better still - I can grab a couple of beers and go hang around at the public boat ramp nearby. Nonstop free entertainment all afternoon. You think people in cars do dumb stuff? They’ve got nothing on boat guys. I literally watched one guy (attempting to be a hotshot and power his boat onto the trailer instead of winching it up) put it through the trailer post, pickup tailgate and cab back window (wrecked the bow, most of the front of the hull and bashed up the back of the pickup cab pretty good. Obviously the trailer was pretty messed up too. Probably a $15,000 “whoopsie”... maybe more. People were roaring out loud laughing. Couldn’t help myself either. Drew quite the crowd... Then you get the guys that back down the ramp too far, occasional “forgot-to-set-the-brakes” (glug glug) probably a couple times a year, the numerous fallers-in, the “float-always” (and “frantic swimmer-afters”) It’s good fun for the whole family!
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Went to the river to see my parents launch their new bass boat for it's maiden voyage. Dad was waiting for a couple to launch their boat. The man was backing the Caddy up as the woman was holding the rope to the boat. He backed it far enough to float the boat, but the tailpipe was under water. The engine died and he was having a challenge to get it to start with the tailpipe in the water. So he decided to pour gas into the carb, (it was the 1970s) and that caught the engine on fire. Every boat has a fire extinguisher, but few people will use their own fire extinguisher to put out an idiots fire. I put down my camera, and ran out to the guys boat, grabbed his fire extinguisher and put out his car. Of course it was not going to run anymore. So one guy waiting to launch used his truck to pull the Caddy out of the way so everyone else could launch. The entire time the lady just stood there like a statue on the dock holding the rope to the boat. I guess she had no idea how to tie a knot and help with the fire.