This past Saturday my wife, her sister, and her husband went boating on Canandaigua lake in the finger lakes region Upstate New York. There is a very small island on the north end where a bunch of boaters anchor on to get out and swim.
Well, I was wading in shin deep water with my BIL just talking and enjoying the beautiful weather when a 20+ boat with a I/O trolls by us within about 15 feet. The guy waves to us and proceeds to dig his outdrive into the sand/gravel bar 15 feet from where we're standing in water around a foot deep. The guy takes his boat out of gear but leaves his outdrive down and begins to rock the boat as best as one person can rock a decent sized boat. After rocking it he puts it into gear and tries again, with the same results. He then takes it out of gear and gets into the water in his jeans and sneakers without saying a word to us.
He starts trying to push the boat, but again with the outdrive down buried in the sand/gravel the boat doesn't move. I suggest to him that he raises his outdrive and then the boat will float off the bar and he responds that he was told not to raise the outdrive with the motor running. So I suggest to shut off the motor and he gets this look on his face like he just discovered a cure for the common cold. He asked his lady friend to shut off the motor and to raise the outdrive. We didn't see him again as I assumed he was too ashamed to come back to the area.
I just could not believe he didn't think that maybe the water was shallow because I was standing in 1 foot deep water, duh!!
Well, I was wading in shin deep water with my BIL just talking and enjoying the beautiful weather when a 20+ boat with a I/O trolls by us within about 15 feet. The guy waves to us and proceeds to dig his outdrive into the sand/gravel bar 15 feet from where we're standing in water around a foot deep. The guy takes his boat out of gear but leaves his outdrive down and begins to rock the boat as best as one person can rock a decent sized boat. After rocking it he puts it into gear and tries again, with the same results. He then takes it out of gear and gets into the water in his jeans and sneakers without saying a word to us.
He starts trying to push the boat, but again with the outdrive down buried in the sand/gravel the boat doesn't move. I suggest to him that he raises his outdrive and then the boat will float off the bar and he responds that he was told not to raise the outdrive with the motor running. So I suggest to shut off the motor and he gets this look on his face like he just discovered a cure for the common cold. He asked his lady friend to shut off the motor and to raise the outdrive. We didn't see him again as I assumed he was too ashamed to come back to the area.
I just could not believe he didn't think that maybe the water was shallow because I was standing in 1 foot deep water, duh!!
