nose dive

[wannabeboater]

Bare in mind I was 16 at the time.<br /><br />I have a boat where you can ride with 3 or 4 people in the front. So I'm cruising along at about 45 mph with 4 friends in the front. I'm thinking life is good. Hanging with friends enjoying the summer, no troubles.<br /><br />The lake we were on is in northern NH southern Maine. The lake is half on each side. The lake has one family of loons which are endangered that nest there every year. So I'm just enjoying myself, and one of my friends yells "LOON!". Loons can stay under water for a while, and this one decides to pop up right in my path. <br /><br />My first reaction is to throw the engine in neutral. So I pull the throttle back. The boat starts to slow fast...to fast. I look forward and see the nose of my boat about a foot under. Water is pouring in. My friends start to scramble. As the crowd does @ a big concert when the head lining band comes on.<br /><br />They have no place to go but back. All I can see is people and water rushing toward me.<br /><br />Well, to make a long story abit shorter. All three wind shied pain brake including the frame. Boat was so full of water it was sitting only about an inch above the water. I spent the rest of the summer working to pay for the damages.<br /><br />I'm not much of a story teller, but I thought I would share this with yall.

 

[CalicoKid]

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Hey, I've seen that ALMOST happen!! I was with a group in another boat who, all but the driver, were standing in the bow of an 18' crusty bowrider navigating a very large, very busy lake at night after fourth of July fireworks. There was also an emergency no-wake rule on the entire lake due to high water. Every wave came over the bow of this boat! All these rum-dummies thought there were holes in the boat and they were all getting ready to swim for it, yelling for help, saying their prayers, etc. After letting the tension build for some time we swung the sober boat over to them and advised the soon to be survivers that maybe a few or a lot of them should GET IN THE BACK OF THE BOAT!!<br /><br />Ten seconds later everything was just fine. That boat drained a loooong time on the ramp

 

[bassboy1]

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I have a couple freinds I occasionally go tubing with. they love to chase geese with their boat. one time they see a gaggle of geese floating in the middle of the channel. They throttle up and head for the geese. Well one goose starts to fly toward the boat. It flys UNDER the bimini top right next to the captains head. Needless to say they never chased geese again.

 

[rottenray6402]

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I would pay money to have seen the look on the guys face with a goose flying under the bimini! Those things are big!???

 

[postjim508]

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I've been boating in a runabout for about 5 years, but I launched a new to me pontoon boat yesterday with the wife who is a little nervous about water but seemed relaxed on the 24' pontoon.

Everything was fine until I decided to see how it performed going over the wake of a fairly large didn't. It didn't. I was going a bit to fast and, like an idiot (I should know better) I headed straight into the wake. The deck at the bow dug in, my wife screamed, I freaked out and, luckily, the back of the pontoon lifted enough to pull the prop out of the water.

I killed the engine, the 1 foot wave finished washing over the deck, my wife frantically put on her life jacket, and the only thing that happened to the boat is that the aluminum panel front out of the gront gate.

After a few minutes of terror, everything was ok. The guys on a pontoon near us made sure we were ok and then rolled on their deck laughing. I can just see the darn thing popping backwards out of the water,

Live and learn.

JP