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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: SKYGUNS on August 17, 2008, 05:46:35 AM
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We went to central northern California to go boating, when we put the boat in the water everything seemed fine, we loaded it up and it took us about 10 minutes and when my mother and brothers cast off and drive north to meet me and my father at the dock upstream it starts when they call and say it stuttering and its not giving the throttle wanted so then i state to my dad did you ever out the rear plug in then he gos "oh $h1t" tells them to turn back and turn on the bilge, then he turns around and panics as he gos like 50 in a 35 mph road with the trailer still on, they shut off the engine and he dives in with the plug (he nearly forgets it the first time) with the plug in we check the engine and see the water has about touched the oil pan and may be a bit higher, and that was a lot of water for that boat, about 4-5 cubic feet (may be exaggerating). we take it out for a test drive and it stutters and backfires so we take it out ASAP to get it fixed when we go home. Perhaps the most common thing to check before you put it in and us being idiots, forgot too.
I still refuse to tell him i had intentions to tell him to remember the plug. :rofl
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Seen that happen. Boat sank. :D
You can try some self bailing plugs, called duck bills. You leave them attached.
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was there ever a smart boating mistake? if you keep underweigh the water will flow out in a planing hull the problem is when you stop. been there done that. duck bills clog easily
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Ooop's, Can't forget that drain plug....
I have a 19ft Alumaweld jetsled, 350hp IO Mercjet power....
Had just finished service on the jet...
Forgot to reinstall the impeller screen...
Too many buddies, Too many beers, on a hot summer day fixin the boat!!!!!
Next day, out on the river, went blastin upstream... Fun stuff man!!!
Upstream dragraces, with other sleds, listenin to that BigBlock Chevy HOWL!!!
Sucked a football sized rock into the almost new impeller, at full throttle....
BANG, CRUNCH CRUNCH, WIZZZZZZZZZ, GRIND!!!!! Smashed the impeller,
twisted off the imp shaft, broken gears, and a cracked case....
I rebuilt the jet myself, but parts cost me $6200 bucks...
My wife almost had an appoplexy!!!!!
Be glad your mistake was a small one.... But I feel for ya bro!!!!
<S> RC
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Seen that happen. My friend sank the boat.
We were moving all of our small daysailors away from the lake at the end of the season. We had two cars with two hitches. Unfortunately, we had one free trailer, and another trailer underneath a cheapo aluminum bass boat that we used as a safety boat.
So our plan was to put the safety boat in the water, tie it up, and then have 2 trailers to use. We're moving along at a good clip, on our way back to the lake for the last trip. We also have to move out the safety boat on this trip. I say to the person riding in my car, "Did so and so put in the plug?"
The reply was, "Yeah! Yeah, he had to have! It's so and so." Then we chuckled at my silly musing.
It's dark by the time we get there, so we go down to get the safety boat out of the water. "So and So" goes up to the dock and says, "Wow! The water level went up?" What are you talking about? "The water level went up like a foot and a half!"
As we look closer, we see that the boat is on the bottom of the lake, albeit in a shallow part at the shore. Just about that time, the temperature drops to 28/30 degrees, being as it is late November. All of our wet lines start freezing solid. We make him get in the water to get it out. Hours later, the boat was still draining water.
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Install a small hook above your boat's ignition switch. When you pull the plug, put it in a bag and hang it over your switch.
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was there ever a smart boating mistake? if you keep underweigh the water will flow out in a planing hull the problem is when you stop. been there done that. duck bills clog easily
How does one keep underweigh? Throw some passengers overboard? :rofl
If one keeps moving, ie underway, the water will drain slowly.
Never had a duckbill clog.
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How does one keep underweigh? Throw some passengers overboard? :rofl
If one keeps moving, ie underway, the water will drain slowly.
Never had a duckbill clog.
one keeps under weigh by moving the vessel forward. preferably under its own propulsion. is the song anchors away or achors a weigh?
if you've never had a duckbill clog then you have never used one.
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The song is "Anchors A Weigh"
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I used to just keep the thing in and had a spare handy in a storage rack near the end of the boat. Theres no real reason to ever take it out and keep it out anyways. Not if you keep the boat covered as I always did anyways.
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Did that once. Was an outboard though so just stuck the plug and bailed a while. Was embarrassing.
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See Rules #4, #5
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My brother had a goofy lil 17' bayliner on a trailer. He'd drag the thing up to Lake Powell behind his RV. One weekend, on the way home late, a lil boozed, sun toasted and a bit smoked, he'd forgotten to snug down the strap and hadn't ever installed a snub saftey cable between the winch and the bow eye. Somewhere east of San Bernardino the goofy little POS hopped off the trailer and wound up being dragged up the freeway at 75mps still attached to the trailer by the winch cable.
Left a white stripe for better than 20 miles. :lol
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Our first trip out this year was while my daughter was away and my wife and I decided would be a good time for peace and quiet on the lake. We did as we usually do and made a lap around the lake and parked at our favorite fishing spot until we got hungry. At that point we pulled up to shore at nice little sandy beach area as we have done several times before and tie it there like always before. I pull out the grill and make lunch. After a couple of hours have passed we make sure the grill has cooled pick up all our belongings and load them in to the boat and prepare to push the boat back out away from the beach.
Problem is the power company has decided that they needed to drain down the lake some and now our 19 foot Regal has sand up about 1 inch all the way around the hull including up the back. Now our 2000 pound (estimated from the 3500 pound weight rating on trailer) is truely beached. We ended up having to unload everything, start the engine with the lower unit raised up almost all the way, put it in reverse, and both of us push with no one to steer the boat after it got moving.
Of course we could have called for help since we both had cell service, but you know how pride can get the better of you. From that point on we decided that we would make sure that we pushed the boat back away from the shore after we get what we need off of it.
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Our first trip out this year was while my daughter was away and my wife and I decided would be a good time for peace and quiet on the lake. We did as we usually do and made a lap around the lake and parked at our favorite fishing spot until we got hungry. At that point we pulled up to shore at nice little sandy beach area as we have done several times before and tie it there like always before. I pull out the grill and make lunch. After a couple of hours have passed we make sure the grill has cooled pick up all our belongings and load them in to the boat and prepare to push the boat back out away from the beach.
Problem is the power company has decided that they needed to drain down the lake some and now our 19 foot Regal has sand up about 1 inch all the way around the hull including up the back. Now our 2000 pound (estimated from the 3500 pound weight rating on trailer) is truely beached. We ended up having to unload everything, start the engine with the lower unit raised up almost all the way, put it in reverse, and both of us push with no one to steer the boat after it got moving.
Of course we could have called for help since we both had cell service, but you know how pride can get the better of you. From that point on we decided that we would make sure that we pushed the boat back away from the shore after we get what we need off of it.
Kedge. Swim, with the anchor on a float like a couple of life jackets, out the entire length of your rhode, drop the hook and then haul yourself off. I used to routinely drop a kedge on the way in to a beach anyway. Tides, 'n all...
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As long as the boat is moving forward (rapidly) through water the water in the boat will get sucked out through the drain plug hole. The plug in my boat only gets removed for winter storage- during the summer it stays in.
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Kedge. Swim, with the anchor on a float like a couple of life jackets, out the entire length of your rhode, drop the hook and then haul yourself off. I used to routinely drop a kedge on the way in to a beach anyway. Tides, 'n all...
i'll try to give tht a shot next time
thanks
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Was out in Harrison, TN and my friend was testing a new propeller.
Along comes a couple of guys with a brand-spankin-new boat. Not reallly a bass boat, more of a racer/wakeboarding boat.
They back in and let the boat slide off and his buddy drives the van forward. The guy in the boat (he's got a ropeline) comes back ashore and they prepare the stuff totransfer to the boat when one of them notices the boat is really low in the water. "There's a lot of water in the back!" on screams and it's only a few inches from the motor. The boat guy now WALKS on water (apparently) and runs out to the boat--gets in--and guns it while the van buddy backs the trailer back into the river. They just barely made it before the brand new boat sank.
Knowing where the plug is......not QUITE proceless.
Bruce
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i never used the drain plug, thats what bilge pumps are for.
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I've seen too many boating mishaps to count. Some of the best though:
Guy backing down the ramp with the boat already unhooked from the trailer. Stops his truck, boat rolls off trailer and slams onto the boat ramp 15 ft from the water.
My dad backs the boat in but forgets to unhook the stern straps from the trailer. Trailer is floating under the boat. Dad tries to back boat off trailer, guns the engine and starts pulling the truck into the lake.
My dad backs the boat down the ramp to the waters edge. Unhooks the boat from the trailer but forgets to tie off guide line to boat. Backs boat into water, boat floats off trailer with no one in it. Watch boat float in the boat bay for 30 minutes before someone tows it over the the dock for us. At 9 years old dad decides I'm old enough to drive the boat off the trailer from now on when we go fishing :D
While stationed onboard the USCGC Scioto in Keokuk IA we were underway and had our 20ft john boat tied off on the portside of the work barge while steaming up river. The BM1 decides he wants to work a buoy on the starboard side of the barge. We hook onto the bouy and start dragging it around to get it back on station. While backing down and watching the bouy the stern line on the 20ft parts, the stern goes under in 18ft of water and the engines get burried into the mud, $35000 worth of ATON gear is lost over the side. Fuel cans, seats, life jackets and all manner of gear is floating down river, and the BM1 is yelling at us because we weren't watching the boat. He was an idiot.
While at the beach at Tom Stead lake in Oklahoma watch a guy trying to bring his boat into the beach. My friend yells to the guy to watch out for the rocks. Guy yells back, "What?" Tom even louder now, "Dude there are rocks right there!!!" pointing right in front of the guys boat. Guy, "What??", Tom at the top of his lungs, "Dude you are about to hit the rocks!!!! Stop your boat!!!!" BOOM!! Bang, bang, bang. Hole in the bottom of the boat, busted prop, and cracked skeg on the lower unit. Guy, "Why didn't you guys tell me there were rocks there?" :huh
Have plenty more.
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:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl
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I once buried the nose of my 19' boat in big surf and flipped it end over end.
In Homer Alaska back in about 1978 I saw a guy stand up in the back of his small skiff and gun his outboard engine. There was good chop and the boat pretty much stood up on end and sunk straight down. It ended up capsized with the keel barely out of the water. The man and his wife held on to the capsized boat. Alaskan water is so cold that summer life expectancy is 15 minutes; some people go into shock almost instantly however. About 100 people on the beach just watched as the man and his wife called for help. After a minute or so of watching adults do nothing I grabbed someone's inflatable Zodiac and drug it down to the surf. About halfway down the beach a drunk guy helped me. There was one paddle; the drunk took it and I paddled with my hand. The breakers kept pushing us back, however. After a couple minutes of this I jumped out and pushed us past the surf and then climbed in. We paddled like mad. We were about half way to the people when someone on the shore got a skiff with a motor in the water and went out the rescue the couple. They towed the drunk and I back as well. I was 13 and couldn't swim, but I couldn't watch people die either.
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i had a 17' bayliner. left the plug out, didnt winterize it, left the straps on when i was trying to launch it almost loosing my truck. jumped off it in lake michegan..almost lost it by wind dragging it away from me.swam like tarzan for that one. i once parked it w/motor running and jumped off the back to get ready for skiing. well i left it in gear, when i came up i got hit in the mouth by the engine as the prop tore my knee up. could see the bone. it was alot of fun driving home with a clutch. that 17' bayliner would just eat the waves up in a big lake. i would take it out in a storm and drive down the coast to waukegan..catch a buzz in front of the waukegan nuke plant. god i miss that boat. hopefully getting another one this fall. first day i had it, i took it to a small lake at 7p.m.. it was butyfull out and not a soul on the lake. i'm thinkin how could all these people pass up a boat ride this time of night. so i gave it gas and noticed a little red light following me. i soon learned lake rules after that..... when i got pulled over there were 2 fisherman laughing thier butts off. the sheriff kicked them off the lake for the night for laughing at me. we both learned valuble lessons that night.
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feels good not to be alone... :lol
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Ah yes boating mistakes...not so funny anymore.
Hornet: My MK3 just went to the Scioto.
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Amateurs the lot of you :D
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the embarrassment would have to be the next worst thing to the cost, wouldn't you agree?
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I saw a 'boating accident' today that would put the whole thread to shame. And yes, the cost will definitely be worse than the embarrassment.
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I was expecting Nilsen to show up in this thread... :devil
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Probably the most common boating mistake. I've seen so many people do this that I've learned to put the plug in BEFORE I leave the house.
The second most common mistake I've seen out in these parts is watching folks attempt to back their trailers up in a straight line while launching. Sometimes its comical.
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In plymouth mass. at the boat ramp people set up chairs to watch the clowns try to back there boats down the ramp its too funny. I wish thay had some sort of rule that you had to take a test to drive your boat,there are clowns out there who dont have a clue.
Probably the most common boating mistake. I've seen so many people do this that I've learned to put the plug in BEFORE I leave the house.
The second most common mistake I've seen out in these parts is watching folks attempt to back their trailers up in a straight line while launching. Sometimes its comical.
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I wish thay had some sort of rule that you had to take a test to drive your boat,there are clowns out there who dont have a clue.
In Ontario you have to take a boating coarse, and pass, to operate a boat.
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In Ontario you have to take a boating coarse, and pass, to operate a boat.
nannyism strikes again
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nannyism strikes again
Though I have not taken a safety course I do think it is a good idea. I know in many states it is required to take one to operate a boat.
I don't think it is anymore "nannyism" than requiring a drivers license to operate a motor vehicle.
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Don't need anything here in MA.
In Ontario you have to take a boating coarse, and pass, to operate a boat.