Some Boating Entertainment

[Midnightsun]

[Tireless]

Lol. Funny stuff. Thanks.

Greg

[pepmyster]

Thanks Hans!!!!!!!!!

[km1125]

One in the middle certainly looked like a CARVER!

[buster53]

Sure would be nice if people learned how to take videos….why they continue to video in portrait mode is beyond me.

[Midnightsun]

Source of the post One in the middle certainly looked like a CARVER!

At 8:47 that definitely is a Carver. Anyone care to raise their hand an admit it was them?

[pepmyster]

Wasn't me! I swear!!!!!!!!!

[km1125]

Source of the post Sure would be nice if people learned how to take videos….why they continue to video in portrait mode is beyond me.

Yea, that stuff bugs me too. I think some peoples eyes are positioned vertically, instead of horizontally like most of us.

[Cooler]

Not to get anyone nervous, but do we realize how often this stuff happens? These are only the 1 percent of the times someone actually has a video source recording. I look at this stuff and hope it is the same idiots, in the same places, doing the same stuff. And that it will not happen to my location. Not a realistic hope. I used to have a slip on the other side of a launch ramp. Almost everyday someone would do something really stupid. Only once did somebody roll a truck into the water. But...you can't fix stupid. er

[km1125]

When I was about 11 years old my dad bought a boat. 23' single inboard cabin with a plywood hull. Probably a 50's vintage. After the first few poor attempts at docking in he slip, one of his friends gave him some advice on handling and docking, saying "move slow, but keep power on the prop while you're making the turn then go in reverse to stop the boat when you get in the slip". Made sense, and after just a couple times he really got the timing down and was able to perfectly position the boat in the slip.

Then, one day we're coming into the slip just about a perfect as you can get and he hit reverse to stop the boat.

But somehow the linkage to the transmission chose at that very instant to fall apart before it went into reverse.

He burped the throttle, expecting the boat to stop, but of course it didn't, it lurched forward and then hit the seawall with the bow riding up the pile of horizontal telephone poles. The hit was abrupt and it also forced his hand further on the throttle, revving the engine.

With the boat lurching fore and aft, I almost ended up in the drink off the stern, but was able to grab something and stay aboard. He shutdown the engine and we both stood there for a minute kind of stunned until we both noticed the sound of water pouring into the boat!

He quickly popped open the engine cover and sure enough... there was a LOT of water coming in SOMEWHERE!!

He started pulling up the removeable floorboards to find the source. Our big toolbox (one of the old Sears metal ones) was sitting on one of the floorboards so I grabbed the handle to lift it and throw it on the dock.

But it wasn't latched, so tools went flying EVERYWHERE!!

After raising the cushion on the back bench, he found the culprit! There was a 3/4" copper pipe under there that was pouring water into the boat.

Turns out, that was the bilge pump! It was an inverted "U" that used suction from a scoop under the boat to pull water out of the boat. There was supposed to be a pinhole in the top of the "U" to prevent siphoning back into the boat, but someone had taped over that hole. There was also supposed to be a little spring-loaded door on the scoop to only open when the boat was making forward progress, but that was missing too, so the "bilge pump" was just siphoning lake water into the boat as fast as it could! He pulled it off and plugged the hole and everything settled down. That's about when we noticed all the dock neighbors who had come over to see if we needed help.

(whew! that was much longer than I thought it was going to be!)