That's a real dangerous area Blade. Back in the '60's I was driving my dads 14 ft Larsen in the back bay at Balboa. Along comes a boat full of girls, going in the opposite direction. As my attention was diverted in their direction, I too encountered a loud bang. I ran right over the top of a 55 gal oil drum being used as a bouy. As the boat settled to a stop, my friend and I headed for the gunwales. I thought for sure we were going to sink.<br /><br />As it turns out, there was no damage to the hull but I bent the prop shaft in that ol 40 hp Merc. We limped back to the ramp after learning the cost of the Sirens call.Originally posted by Blade_X:<br /> A few years back me and my kid brother would regularly rent 14 ft skiffs from a place at Newport here in so cal. Weve been out fishing since before daybreak and are coming back for a sandwich and brews for lunch. A large sailboat is headed out in the opposite direction from us and theres some very attractive buxom young lasses soaking up sun on the deck. My brother and mysef are both enjoying the eye candy when all of a sudden theres a horrendous BAMMM!!! and were both almost tossed into the water as we slammed into the live bait shack in the middle of the bay. The ladies on the sailboat had a good chuckle at our expense.
<br />Best one we have had was on a building site. House is on a bend of the river, 15 blokes having lunch with the panaramic views of topless<br />sunbakers on the other side . Cost me a bit in extra time as it was hard to get them back to work,and everyone wanting to work at the front.Had to explain to them that you can have your lunch but dont expect to eat it as well.Ended up that i had to do the work out front, only to make up the lost time the things you have to do sometimes 
