Worse thing you hit in the water ?

[mthieme]

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I would have to say a sandbar. That's not too bad.
The worst thing I almost hit was a telephone pole bobbing up and down in between the waves - on end.

 

[Nandy]

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I'm gonna ask how did you do that?

You had to ask... I as moving from the dock to the trailer in a windy day when the motor did that special low mumble like it is going to die so instinctively I gave it a big push to the gas... Well, it did rev!! Then died while moving real quick toward the ramp/trailer. Did not even have the time to start it to try to shift into reverse. Worse, I missed the rollers and the boat got sideways into the trailer hitting the trailer with the lower unit, very solid hit I might add... I could not see any damage to the lower unit or the trailer...\

 

[fishrdan]

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This may sound odd, but I could swear I fit a fish years ago,,, yeah, yeah I know... I was hauling down the Colorado River when all of a sudden the outboard kicked up, no bang, boom, or any other damage, just kind of a soft thud There are some huge stripers down there (50#+) so I'm thinking I got some road kill

The only time one of my boats has been messed up by debris was about 30 seconds after turning the wheel over to my buddy, he brought it up on plane and into an 8" log floating down river... I made a few comments about being blind and suggested some prescription glasses. He felt bad, but I was more amused than mad.

 

[bassboy1]

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My own trailer... Please dont ask..

I did that too. I had a little issue where we needed a boat to go on vacation in a quick time, with none of my projects complete. So, I managed to find a 12' Sea King on a POS trailer for a reasonable price, so I coupled that my 4 horse Evinrude kicker, and the trailer for a bigger boat I was working on, which I had repainted and replaced everything, but hadn't yet fabricated a winch post. So, a strap forward and a strap backwards would serve as a winch post.

Well, given that I pride myself in taking very little time on the ramp, I was going to powerload without a winch post. Worked fine most of the time. I figured out the sweet spot for loading, where I would ride right up on the bunks, and the lower unit would hit the back roller, and I would leave it in gear as dad started to pull out, hitting the kill switch just as he started moving. Then, he would pull up enough to allow the side steps of the trailer to be on dry land, and I would jump out, hook a strap onto the bow eye and wrap around trailer. Worked great, and we were always the quickest loaders there, besides looking like the biggest rednecks in the world.

However, one time, I was fishing alone for a couple hours, and as I headed back to the ramp, dad pointed out that my anchor line was still in the water. Crap, no wonder it felt like the motor was still digging sand (coastal flats are so different than my home lakes, and lacking a depthfinder, I found so many sandbars) when it looked as if I should be running deep water. So, I pull that in, and start to load. I idle on, and it felt like the prop was hitting something. So I kill it, and dad starts to pull out. The boat starts to lean real good, and I scramble to the side step, hollering for him to back in. So, he backs in, and I am sunk to my knees, as I push the boat back, and hold it on as he starts to pull back out.

Basically, I overran the roller, as we were too deep, and the skeg got caught between the frame and roller. The spinning prop started hitting the roller, so it dug grooves in it while spinning the roller, so now I have a treaded roller.

The next time, I was in a 15.5 foot flatbottom with a 40 tiller. Normally, I fished the south end of my local lake, but I decided to visit the north end. So, I am running around up there, and I thought I gave the reef marker enough room. Well, I didn't, and felt rocks and sand below the prop. So, I quilckly kill the motor, and tilt it up (no power trim, or I would have powered out of there with it set shallower). But, the issue now is that the wind is 30 mph, blowing me towards the shore. So, by the time I get to the trolling motor, I am against this sandy beach, trapped between two sandy points. No attempt to push myself out with a paddle or by getting out and pushing is saving me, due to the wind, broadside on the hull, being stronger than me. So, I called a buddy who I remembered mentioning that he would be out that day. I had to literally lay down on the floor so the gunwales would block the wind enough to hear him. He runs up there in his bass boat, and after about 30 minutes of attempts, and about getting himself stuck, manages to tow me off. Boy did I feel stupid.

 

[eaglejim]

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On a windy day last year I got pushed by the wind into the rocks,no damage thankfully :redface:

 

[jay_merrill]

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I have an "almost the worst" and an actual "the worst."

The almost incident occurred on a ship that I was a crewmember of for about a year. We were returning to the States and planned a fuel stop in Saint John's, Newfoundland. Because we were doing so during iceberg season, we had to thread our way through them, in the typically foggy environment that icebergs are found in. While doing this, we came within 6 feet of hitting the underwater portion of a large berg. The only thing that saved us was that we had posted a bow lookout and he warned the bridge before they could see it. We were 50 miles from where the Titanic sank.

The actual incident was a couple of months ago, when I hit something underwater and it sheared the swivel bracket on my motor at the point where the engine tilts. When it happened, my motor slammed to one side and caused my boat to do an immediate 360, at about 20 mph! As I write this, I have a chunk of the swivel bracket sitting on my desk as a paper weight.

 

[chiefalen]

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Woa 50 miles from where the Titanic went down, thats in itself would make me pucker up real good.

We have Earle navel station here, it's one big munitions dump near the mouth of Shewsbury river, great fishing there.

However you must keep out of the the marked area around where the pier is.
They will run up on you the navy boy's with m-16's and scare the bejezes out of you no kidding. Thats when there are no ships there.

When the ships are in or coming in it's a sight to behold, and they have advance escorts and all kinds of helicopter flying around. They stay in the channels makes sense sense they ride real low. I have seen guys drift over the line and get boarded, by state police, and the navy boy's.

So it's interesting with thousands of boats fishing in and around the channels and there are a bunch, that converge there, for Sandy hook and then the ones that take large container boats out to sea, and under the Verrazano bridge.

I have seen a few collisions, see guys run straight into a buoy, every year they are fishing people off the rocks.

 

[Bob_VT]

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Pieces of wooden debris and sand bars...... when I was a youngster I did hit a bouy with my 11' wooden hull D class boat. I tried to pass a friend and splash him a bit and tore a 1' x 6" hole in the hull.

I actually say a guy at the ramp once hit and trash his own truck! It was windy and he was determined to power up on the trailer.... got twisted and the boat went along the winch (that riped into the side of the hull) and smashed into his tailgate. The icing on the cake was he was screaming at his wife and kids at the same time....... karma you know

 

[BoatBuoy]

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Worst thing I hit in the water was...dry land...at night...twice.

 

[triumphrick]

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Jimmy Hoffas body...complete with concrete....

 

[Bob_VT]

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Al Capones body...complete with concrete....

Well ...... and I supposed you forgot that location..... or were you boating in the endzone at the Meadowlands Stadium in NJ

 

[chiefalen]

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Capone died in jail tax evasion, of the clap. Jimmy Hoffa is in the end zone at the stadium they say.

 

[Tyme2fish]

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Capone died in jail tax evasion, of the clap. Jimmy Hoffa is in the end zone at the stadium they say.

Time for Tyme to nit pik:

Al Capone spent the last year of his Alcatraz sentence, which had been reduced to six years and five months for a combination of good behavior and work credits, in the hospital section being treated for syphilis.
He was released in November of 1939 and taken to a hospital in Baltimore where he was treated until March of 1940. For his remaining years, Capone slowly deteriorated while staying at his Palm Island estate in Miami. On January 25, 1947, he died of cardiac arrest.

 

[chiefalen]

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Learned something new, guy died of the clap in his own house. Brain was mush

Ether way not the way i want to go.

 

[triumphrick]

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What's the fuss????? Who said anything about Al Capone??? How did that get in there????


















Jeeeezz......people from New Jersey act like they know everything...

 

[tallcanadian]

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i was around 9 years old. (48 now). my father and i were in this old wooden flat bottom boat with a 10 hp johnson on it. he was going wide open, and had a few drinks i might add, and ran up on this big rock. boat started to tip, but he had the sense enough to lean over and grab the other side to balance it. luckily we could stand on this rock and push the boat back off. no damage to the boat or the motor. scared the bejesus out of me. and him too. sobered him right up. neither one of us could swim and he had no life jacket on. i learned alot from my father. lol. i can laugh about it now.

another time i was on my way back to my cabin. it was around 2 a.m. and a fairly dark night. i was going along in my speedboat, a cadorette 15' with a 50 merc, and i saw these things sticking out of the water. i turned just in time. it was a cow moose swimming across the lake. i would have drove over her back.

 

[Bass Man Bruce]

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There are 6,437 rocks in the Maple river between the landing and my hunting spot. So far I haven't hit 12 of them!!

 

[Mark42]

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I think it was a sea turtle. Wham! pull back throttle and stop look around, but can't see anything. No damage and we continue.

 

[Tyme2fish]

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There are 6,437 rocks in the Maple river between the landing and my hunting spot. So far I haven't hit 12 of them!!

LOL Hee Hee Great reply!!

 

[Always Broke]

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1972 I was just a kid (12) driving my dads 26? Chris Craft on the Ohio river. I was the designated driver! My dad and a few uncles were having a good time until we suddenly slowed down from on plane with the engine straining and then it stalled. It was an inboard and good ol uncle Bob volunteered to use a garden hose to breath with while he went under to investigate. We hit a ?mattress? and the springs wound around the prop and shaft, what a mess! He was doing fine cutting the tangle of wire springs off until one of the party goers felt uncle Bob was left out of the fun and poured a shot of whiskey down the hose.