Even during High Water.. Had to share with my IDO friends…
June 26, 2012 at 11:20 am
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Someone had a bad day!! Hit a wingdam…
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June 26, 2012 at 11:54 am #1078755
Where was that photo taken?
June 26, 2012 at 11:56 am #1078756Quote:
Where was that photo taken?
Brian, I am sure it will be salvaged before any flatheads can take up residence.
June 26, 2012 at 12:01 pm #1078757No noodling then huh?
June 26, 2012 at 12:16 pm #1078761June 26, 2012 at 12:20 pm #1078762Down by Alma,, I was checking it out and next thing I know my nephew was throwing a jig around it!!!
June 26, 2012 at 12:53 pm #1078770That had to be a bad day for sure!!
June 26, 2012 at 1:00 pm #1078773With the way that the top is on, I am hoping that it just broke away from where it was docked.
FDR
June 26, 2012 at 1:01 pm #1078774I bet he had to pull his plug and forgot to put it back in.
June 26, 2012 at 1:04 pm #1078775Quote:
No noodling then huh?
So THIS is what they mean by “submerging a modified bathtub“?
June 26, 2012 at 1:44 pm #1078781Honestly, you very well could be right!! I bet that will happen so many times this year due to the plug enforecement…..almost happened to me once but we caught it just in time!
June 26, 2012 at 2:58 pm #1078799I predicted when that stupid law went into effect that there would be the loss of one or more lives because of it and I feel more sure today than I did then. It will just take the right conditions for it to be fatal. Older person or poor swimmer—add in river current and cold water and it will be a sad headline.
June 26, 2012 at 3:14 pm #1078801I remember one time at our cabin on Balsam Lake we forgot to put the plug in before launching. We had three big guys in the boat (plus all the water-we found out later) the boat wasn’t sitting low enough to be noticeable, but on a spot we normally go through idling anyways and have no problem with the motor trimmed down all the way down we hit something HARD! Lake was at normal level and everything, but that small drop from the water in the boat would be enough to do the trick if we were going faster. Someone is going to get seriously injured or killed. Not good
June 26, 2012 at 3:26 pm #1078805Look, guys, I hate to be the buzzkill on a good opportunity to complain about the plug law, but reality is knockin’ so somebody’s gotta answer the door.
That boat is at least a 26 footer. It is pretty damn unlikely that the owner just backed her off of the ol’ Shorlander that morning and forgot to put the plug in. Also, even if it did go down this way, most cruisers have a bilge alarm so he’d have heard all about it. And even if he had left the plug out, most cruisers have enough pumping power to keep it afloat even with a plug out at least long enough to get the plug in.
At a guess, I’d say a bellows failure is way more likely and a good tear in the bellows would bringa boat that size down and down pretty fast.
OK, normal service may now be resumed.
Hey, wait! Maybe it was ethanol what done it? I heard my brother-in-law’s second cousin’s third husband’s father in law had the exact same thing happen to him and he took small engine classes in high school and said ethanol does this kind of s#!t all the time.
Grouse
Wilton, WIJune 26, 2012 at 3:48 pm #1078810How did this go from hitting a wingdam to forgetting to put a plug in?
June 26, 2012 at 3:56 pm #1078811The reason he didn’t notice his plug was out because he was too busy taking off the AIS stickers that someone told him he no longer needed.
June 26, 2012 at 3:58 pm #1078812Quote:
How did this go from hitting a wingdam to forgetting to put a plug in?
Bzz made a joke. Redneck has crabby pants on and replied seriously to it. The rest have pent up feelings about the plug law. And I farted.June 26, 2012 at 3:59 pm #1078813That bilge pump is going to have a hard time keeping up with that
June 26, 2012 at 4:01 pm #1078818Quote:
And I farted.
Ethanol! I blame ethanol! It’s eating out your innards.
Nobody ever had that problem before they started putting ethanol in the gas.
Grouse
June 26, 2012 at 4:07 pm #1078820Life was much simpler in 1977.
June 26, 2012 at 4:09 pm #1078821Quote:
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And I farted.
Ethanol! I blame ethanol! It’s eating out your innards.
Nobody ever had that problem before they started putting ethanol in the gas.
Grouse
Someone better start subsidizing my meals.
June 26, 2012 at 4:28 pm #1078828Quote:
Life was much simpler in 1977.
. . . before Al Gore invented the internet
June 26, 2012 at 4:35 pm #1078830Yepper. 1977 I was in Alaska helping Uncle Sam keep the Russians from invading. The only invasive species up there is man.
June 26, 2012 at 5:40 pm #10788561977–I wasn’t even a glimmer in Mom’s eye yet
June 26, 2012 at 6:10 pm #1078868Quote:
1977–I wasn’t even a glimmer in Mom’s eye yet
But you were in your Dads!
June 26, 2012 at 6:14 pm #1078871Quote:
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1977–I wasn’t even a glimmer in Mom’s eye yet
But you were in your Dads!
isnt that kinda also sayin someone had a bad day too????????
just sayin!! June 26, 2012 at 8:15 pm #1078900Lots of good blame to go around on this one, I am surprised nobody pegged the new fees for the Hudson launch as the cause to go with the boat plug and Government supported ethonal program….
June 26, 2012 at 8:27 pm #1078901Quote:
Bzz made a joke. Redneck has crabby pants on and replied seriously to it. The rest have pent up feelings about the plug law. And I farted.
well then, you should change your signature to . . .
I am Fartucus
June 26, 2012 at 8:39 pm #1078905Quote:
Lots of good blame to go around on this one, I am surprised nobody pegged the new fees for the Hudson launch as the cause to go with the boat plug and Government supported ethonal program….
I blame George Bush.
June 26, 2012 at 8:51 pm #1078916How far does that boat have to sink in order for any citizen to claim it legally?
My friend knows the law pretty well he actually tried to claim a sheriffs boat that was wrecked on Pool 1 years ago.They laughed and said your nuts dude!
He sat and argued with them for a bit to no-avail.
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