Dumb Human Tricks (THE ORIGINAL POST)

[Bob_VT]

Pulled any dumb human tricks this season? <br /><br />Today I installed a new prop on my Steury and did some trailer modifications. Had two full tanks of gas and took off for the lake. About 9 1/2 miles into my 10 mile trek I recalled leaving my boat keys on my kitchen table. So I turned around and got the keys. <br /><br />Hey we are all human.

<br /><br />But on a brighter note we had a terrific red sky tonight

NOTE: This is the original post that started this SHT section. All the way back from July 2001!

 

[12Footer]

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On a dare, I took my cat fishin with me..<br />I came back bloody, tired and with no fish....The cat had a BLAST (i think).

 

[tcube]

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12Footer<br />There are tears in my eyes and the folks around me think I'm nuts - haven't laughed so hard in months! A cat in a boat - egad - it must have been the epitome of a "cat fit."<br /><br />tcube

 

[moshpitdj]

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you should see one in a "pet PFD"!! It's hillarious, they sell them at all the big pet stores, hmmmmm got me thinkin now, we have two, maybe it's a good way to get rid of.....naw, I couldn't do that just kidding

 

[RIDEPATE]

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i've done the old turn my skeg into a "L" by backing down a inclined driveway with the motor down.........makes you feel really small but i only did it once!!!!!!jim

 

[Big Rod]

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When I start to back down at the boat launch, I always mentally prepare myself to hear from my fishing buddies, "did you put the plug in", after hearing this so many times it gets a bit anoying. Well,guess what, the one time I didn't hear it, I forgot to "put the plug in". Lesson learned, now instead of "anoying" it's "enjoying" to hear it.

 

[Navigator]

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Yeah,<br />I did the "forgot to put the plug in" thing a few years back. Only problem was, we launched the boat and took off immediately so we didn't realize it till we had reached our offshore fishing spot and we cut the engines. (We warmed up the engines while still at the ramp with the boat still on the trailer...It was a private ramp so we didn't block anyone

) Anyways, because we were under way, no water came in, but when we stopped, so 90 minutes later, ooooops.<br />I got nominated to dive overboard and swim under the boat and reinstall it. It took about a year to live that one down

<br />Nav.

 

[12Footer]

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I got one more on the "not putting pulg in" topic...<br />When I was in my early 20's, my father bought a brand new Stamas, but didn't like the trailer selection at the dealership. He had to leave town for a buisness trip, and the boat came-in while he was gone. I told him on the phone of this and other buiness traffic, and he asked that I pick it up at the dealership,and run it to his dock.<br />It was about this time of year,and we ran-into a squall. So I docked at Little Shell Marina to garb a bite,and let it blow over.<br />Shortly after ordering my "Caloosa Sub", someone said, "Hey,Y'all..Somebody's boat is going under out there!" IT WAS DAD's!!!!<br />Luckily, it was covered by the dealer, who put it in the water without the plug, or without it being secure. WHEW!!! I thought I was a dead man!

 

[wesal1]

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I think I have you all topped <br /><br />I was out with my buddy this pass weekend and we were test driving a boat. Anyhow we rode around for about an hour and the boat started coughing and then it died. We looked at the gas needle it said 2/3 of a tank. Ok so the sales "woman" called in and got another boat on the way to start towing us, great! well then the bilge pump started and did not stop not good! next the other boat called back and said they could not be out for about 2 hours (getting worse) now a storm on the horizon (looking bad) pump is still going. now she remembers she must not have put the plug in. ok were is the plug she said in the truck (not good) now it starts to rain (very bad) we start to look around the boat for something to plug the hole with after 20 minutes we find in the last place we look a plug in the glovebox so guess who gets to go swimmming you got the nice pretty sale lady. now back to the first problem trying to get the boat cranked after 10 minutes we figured out that it was just DITW. Now we are soaking wet late for dinner and just plain fustrated. One hour later the other boat shows up. so A wanabe mech comes over while it is still raining and says he bets he could get it cranked (yea right) he goes over gives it some gas and turns it over about 4 times then looks back and says looks like she's not going to crank(no s**t)we are going to have to tow her ( great lets go) this fellow pulls out a anchor and rope while taking the anchor off the roap he drops the chain and down goes the rope maybe with his lighting fast reflexes he could have grabed the rope (yea right) so we wait for the next boat to come out in the rain 3 hours later he get to the dealer ship they find out the fuel gauge was broken <br />the only good thing was the owner felt so bad he so us the invoice for the boat and gave it to us for a thousand dollars below his cost. my buddy came out great on this deal and still had pleanty of money in his pocket

 

[Bluebelin]

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Hadnt this season,but in 1976 wene I was 13yrs old I lived in Southern Md.(now in TN) on an inlet connected to the Chesapeke bay.I was told not to go out in the Bay without adult suppervision.Bieng the no it all teen that I thought I was, one day after school, I took the boat(a 16 ft. ski/fishing boat with a 40hp Johnson out with a buddy and had a great afternoon cathing Bluefish while the folks were in town.We get back and see the old mans truck in the drive way,so I decide to be real slick and hold it open till the last second so I can kill the motor and coast into the pier unsuspected like.Two problems with that,the boat dont stear no more after killing the motor, and it was low tide.We were just low enough to go nose first under the pier,we ducked down and helplessly watched as the front cleets were the first items to be ripped off,then the windshield,the rear cleets followed, and if that wasnt enough, it then tore the motor and almost the whole stearn off and the only reason the boat didn1t completly sink was ...it was low tide.Ever wish you could bypass all the yellin and screaminand get on with the woopin?

 

[12Footer]

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LOL,Bluebelin

<br />I did the same thing at that age,only it was a 1963 Belvedere...Shut her down,and tried to turn into the driveway...No power steering or brakes!!!!<br />Wiped-out 2 garbage cans, mailbox and mom's prized rose bushes.

 

[jpboater]

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Hey Guys. Pretty funny stuff. Funniest thing ever happened to me,(course at the time wasn't very funny), When I was about 16 yrs. old, Myself, my dad and a neighbor were having a great fishing weekend on lake Moultrie in South Carolina. We were in my neighbors boat tied to an old dead tree trunk fishing for crappie this night. Everything was quiet except for the hypnotic hissing of the lanterns hung over the side of the boat. Suddenly there was a dull thud on the hull of the boat. We all three looked at each other wondering who made the noise. After determining that it was neither of us my dad got the spotlight and turned it on the floor of the boat. There lay the biggest snake I'd ever seen (at that moment of course is seemed to be 80 ft. long!!!). During the process of the three of us WETTING our pants, my neighbor went for his glovebox and produced a 38 calib. pistol and shot two holes in the bottom of his boat totally missing the snake. My dad by this time had grabbed the paddle from beside the seat and proceeded to kill the snake while explaining to my neighbor that we were about to be in the water with the **** thing. We quickly untied the boat and made it back to the dock before it filled with water. no quicker way to kill a great fishing weekend. True story...I swear!!!!

 

[krosemond]

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Only a little one...<br /><br />Last week, I put the boat in the water and kept it at the dock. Parked the trailer and truck on what I thought was a level pad in the drive next to the marsh. My wife needs the truck later in the week, so I disconnected it for her.<br /><br />Got up early to fish the next day and when I get back, my trailer had rolled off the 3' high slab and is 20' in the marsh. We just hooked the winch line to the truck and wound it back with a little help lifting it up on the pad and sprayed off all the muck.<br /><br />

 

[Viper]

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After a long day fishing, got home, backed boat into the garage, cranked trailer jack all the way up to clear the front wheel on the tandem then started pushing boat over - schreetch went the skeg - now it slants a little to the left.<br /><br />Well, I can straighten that out with a big crescent wrench - ping - now skeg is an inch shorter, but straight.<br /><br />Ditto on all the plug stories.

 

[Bobby Powell]

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You guy's had me crying....!!!<br /><br />Great stories....hope I never do any of above...<br /><br />oh yeah...now my wife is scared to go out on the water now...<br /><br />Thanks for a great topic!<br /><br />Bobby Powell

 

[krosemond]

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Bobby...I am sure you will eventually come up with your own new and unique "dumb human trick" if you stay on the water enough. <br /><br />

 

[prplhze65]

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WELL, WAY BACK WHEN I WAS ABOUT 20, MY DAD HAD A FANCY BASS BOAT. HE USED TO LET ME AND MY BUDDIES TAKE IT OUT FOR A LITTLE SKIING. ONE DAY WE DECIDED TO GO OUT TO THE SAC. RIVER TO A PLACE CALLED "THE WASHOUT". THIS WAS A HUGE GRAVEL BAR WHERE TONS OF PEOPLE WOULD GATHER AND HANG OUT LISTEN TO MUSIC AND PARTY AND SUCH. WELL WE LAUNCHED THE BOAT AND STARTED UPRIVER(W.F.O OF COURSE).I WAS FEELING PRETTY *****IN' OUT IN THIS FANCY BOAT IN FRONT OF ALL THOSE BIKINIS! I HAD ONLY GONE AS FAR AS THE UPPER END OF THE GRAVEL BAR WHEN I LOOKED DOWN INTO THE WATER. ALL I SAW WAS BOTTOM! I INSTINCTIVELY YANKED BACK ON THE THROTTLE AND BAM! BAM! THE MOTOR STARTED HITTING BOTTOM. WELL THAT WAS THE END OF FEELING *****IN'! I MEAN EVERYONE HAD TO HEAR THAT NOISE. WE FLOATED BACK DOWN AND LOADED UP AND WENT HOME. THAT WAS A GOOD LESSON ON RIVER NAVIGATION. MY BUDDIES THOUGHT MY OL' MAN WAS GONNA KILL ME, BUT WHEN I SHOWED HIM THE PROP HE JUST LAUGHED AND ASKED IF I LEARNED ANYTHING. I DID. BIG TIME. PROPS ARE EXPENSIVE TO A 20 YEAR OLD!

 

[Big Rod]

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Had a big fishing weekend planned at the camp and to be kicked off by a big pot of shrimp jambalya for supper the Friday night. These great plans fell through because the third boat in our party arrived at the camp being towed by the #2 boat. They new I could fix it so they towed it to the camp. I worked on that boat's engine for at least 2 hrs. before I found out the owner filled both fuel tanks with diesel fuel!! Dumb human tricks, yea and there will be lots more...

 

[lanascarfan]

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You guys had me hurting from laughing so hard!! Now I get to tell off on my first time in a boat as an adult. First off, I didn't grow up around boats, I grew up at the high school football games and summer was for swimming in our pool and playing softball. If we went fishing it was done from the banks of a neighbors pond. Deprived, wasn't I? Anyway, my husband and a few buddies were taking turn backing their boats down the launch at the lake and he had told me to just take the boat around to the dock and wait for him to help the other guys launch. I swear I am not blond but the first question out of my mouth was, "Where is the brake?!" To this day, NO ONE has ever let me live that one down. How was I to know that to slow down and stop the boat you put the thing in reverse?? The next time we took it out, someone handed me one of the cheap little black anchors from Wal-Mart and said that was my brake, when I wanted to stop just throw it into the water and hang on!! <br /><br />And now to tell off on my husband... We were putting our boat (Rooster) in at Lake Concordia last year and the water was extremely low. So smart guy backs down the ramp and pushes the boat off and jumps back in the truck to pull back up and park... only it is slow to move... as a matter of fact it doesn't move at all... the tires are spinning and the thing is just burning rubber.... People are lined up along the sides of the ramp, watching, waiting. BY this time he is made at his TRUCK, swearing it was a worthless piece of S*** threatening to let it roll back into the lake just so he could buy another. Up walks the launch owner 13 year old son with a grin on his face... "Your number 10 so you launch for free today!" The water was so low that when he backed far enough to get the boat off the trailer, he droppped the back axle of the trailer off the ramp into the mud. He darn near tore the axle off the trailer, but he launched for free for being the 10th person to do it that day!!! And the kid had friends that were getting their kicks counting people doing it, but at least they jumped in and helped pick up the trailer and get it back on the concrete!

 

[Bob_VT]

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Well it goes to show you that we are all just human. Great stories. Now I have a somewhat twisted sense of humor and I love watching humans in "action". To enhance an enjoyable day on Lake Champlain a massive source of entertainment is the launching ramp. There are allot of "weekend boaters" who spend big $$$$$ on boats and tow vehicles. Watching nervous spouses, screaming spouses, laughing friends, as well as people who just shake their heads at the ramp is great fun. It is like watching America's Funniest Video's live. I often wonder how some of these boaters even make their way back to the shore line. Squeling tires, jack knifed trailers, boats dropped off the trailers, just to name a few. It is so funny that it is sad. I have to apologize in advance .... to people that I laugh at. We have all been there and without a doubt, we will be there again. I have learned that experience is a great teacher and as long as your "dumb human trick" does not result in injury or is fatal it is really no big thing!<br /><br />