children in the boat

[MudSkunk]

So this saturday, yesterday i go fishing for northerns in the southern half of tichigan lake here in wi. for northern pike. catch a couple of really small but extremely angry ones. the jet skiers show up and a thunderstorm starts rolling in so i decide hell with it im going home.

get back to ramp and i tie up off to the side to get the truck and another boat with a family with 3 children under or around 12 zip up into the boat ramp and the mom hops out while the hubby goes and gets the truck and trailer even though i was there first. so i say hell with it its no biggee. and i wait till they are done figuring they will be pretty quick and the t-storm was still a good bit out. the dad comes back with a big yellow brand new H1 hummer to load up their 17' fishing boat. he backs up and does a good jub of it with it being a humer with 0 rear vis. kids still in the boat the mom standing on the side the dad starts puling the boat full of kids up the loose steep gravel ramp. kids yelling the whole time "GO FASTER DADDY!!" and he does. the father drove up ramp and down the street a ways and finally stopped to get the kids off the boat.

 

[David Greer]

Re: children in the boat

Worse is when they run the boats on a plane and let the children sit on the bow with their legs dangling over the front. Those morons need a ticket with a big fine.

 

[skargo]

Re: children in the boat

What does low rear visibility have to do with it? I use my mirrors and back down better than most I see at ramps.

 

[kenmyfam]

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What does low rear visibility have to do with it? I use my mirrors and back down better than most I see at ramps.

Your mirrors are obviously wide enough to see the trailer without boat or you have guide on's that you can see in the mirror. With my Jimmy, spare wheel on the back and all and trailer only, when I can see the wheels in my mirrors it is already too late. With the boat in place it's easy though as I can see it.

 

[skargo]

Re: children in the boat

Your mirrors are obviously wide enough to see the trailer without boat or you have guide on's that you can see in the mirror. With my Jimmy, spare wheel on the back and all and trailer only, when I can see the wheels in my mirrors it is already too late. With the boat in place it's easy though as I can see it.

Gotcha, I didn't consider that. I actually have the non-tow package mirrors on my Dodge Ram 2500 Cummins truck, but amazingly, they work fine for my 21' Wellcraft and the trailer. Maybe adding tow mirrors would help on your Jimmy?

I learned long ago to use mirrors, because I had a couple vehicle with caps with no windows, and two different vans with no rear windows OR side windows, and towed with all of them.

 

[wajajaja02]

Re: children in the boat

I added a back up camera to my suburban, 80 bucks at wallyworld, works great.

 

[MudSkunk]

Re: children in the boat

standard H1 hummer mirrors you cannot even see the ends of your own tailgate. used to drive hummers int he army and you had to have someone standing off tot he side to do any sort of backing up. so his abilities backing up were impressive. he may have had a camera in the back too dunno about that. but the point was towing kids in the boat...

 

[Rowroy]

Re: children in the boat

Yep . . . Father of the Year material right there.

 

[axeslinger1957]

Re: children in the boat

I added a back up camera to my suburban, 80 bucks at wallyworld, works great.

Talk to me, waja! I want to hear more...

 

[Jack Daniels]

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I cant see the trailer without the boat on it, small mirrors and high tail gate. I tow with and AWD buick Rendezvous, she handles the boat great. I just open the tail gate and back up that way when i am retreiving. Looks weird but it works and its easy and safe.

 

[MudSkunk]

Re: children in the boat

I cant see the trailer without the boat on it, small mirrors and high tail gate. I tow with and AWD buick Rendezvous, she handles the boat great. I just open the tail gate and back up that way when i am retreiving. Looks weird but it works and its easy and safe.

be careful with that. my truck is a 2003 silverado with a fiberglass bed and tailgate. i did that drop the tailgate thing a few times then forgot to put the tailgate back up and cut a backing turn too tight parking the truck and trailer and wanged a good 6 inches of my tailgate. there were about six pieces and it has took me 7 days to glue each piece one a day back together using epoxy. the crank housing on a typical trailer is exactly the right height to wreck a tailgate that is in the down position. now i just remove the tailgate and leave it in the garage when i go boating.

 

[dwhite1031]

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On the lakes we go to here in West Texas, the Texas Parks and Wildlife officers do a great job of educating people like that. I witnessed the TPWD issue a warning ticket to a group of "young people in Daddy's Bayliner" for their antics at the ramp a couple of weekends ago. Pretty much the same scenario, 7 people in boat when pulling away from ramp, junior floored the pickup with everyone in the boat on the trailer. After TPWD left, they were all complainng about what ***holes the officers were........

What junior and his friends didn't realize is that someone in the boat or in the ramp area could have been seriously injured by his actions.​

 

[itsaboattime]

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I see that stuff around here alot. Those are the kind of people that one day you'd like the boat to drop off the end of the trailer and stay on the ramp, no kids in the boat of course.

parents get out on the water and it's sometimes like they leave their brains in the truck.

I've seen kids "bumped" out of bowriders because junior hit a wake to fast or wrong.