Author Topic: Never a dull moment at the boat ramp.... (Read 13243 times)

lokidog · « **on:** May 06, 2013, 08:42:39 AM »

So, yesterday, I get a call from an elderly neighbor (yep Smossy's girl, I used elderly, since he's pushing 80

), I missed the phone so finished up a couple of things and then hopped on the golf cart to go over to his house. I figured he needed help getting his 14' "dinghy" into the water. As I turn the cart around, another neighbor drops him off in the driveway. Turns out he needs me and my truck to pull his truck and 24' Bayliner up a hill. He got 2/3 of the way up one of our small hills and the boat dragged his truck backwards back down the hill about 80 yards until the trailer wheels stopped on the edge of a big ditch.

I pull him to the top and stop to unhook his truck. He asked me to follow him to the ramp so I could hook on again as he was afraid the boat would drag him down the ramp into the water. Well, launching his boat went fine. He asked if I would take his boat around the island to the dock, no problem. Earlier , he had dropped the dinghy at the ramp, but now it was floating out in the bay. He heads off, so I motored over to the dinghy, but it is not his, just another blue one. It is attached to a mooring buoy that is flipped and tangled, so I righted it and untangled it, then went looking for the correct one. Well, I find it about a half mile away so inch in to shore and get it off the beach. I finally motor around to the dock and the neighbor that dropped this gentleman off at my house is there to give me a ride to my truck.

When we launched earlier, there was also another neighbor's 28' or so footer on a trailer behind an old pickup, seemed like a small truck for this six-wheeled trailer and boat.....

As we come down the road we turn the corner above the ramp to see that they had launched the big boat... and trailer... and TRUCK, into the bay.

Too bad I had to look for that dinghy or I might have been there in time to help. As we approached, I could see three people in the water, they were trying to unhook the boat that was straining trying to float the trailer by its winch. They had a little Isuzu something hooked to the truck to keep it from going deeper. I guess they had actually pulled it up a bit already as it had been in halfway up the windshield. They got the boat unhooked and tried pulling the truck up but the towing truck just spun its tires. So I hooked up and we pulled the truck out.

It's a shame as it was a nice little pickup. Here are some photos.

Smossy · « **Reply #1 on:** May 06, 2013, 08:50:03 AM »

Wow good story lol, wish I would have been there to see that one. Cant imagine trying to pull a boat that size with a truck that small.

h20hunter · « **Reply #2 on:** May 06, 2013, 08:52:17 AM »

Kind of like 4th of July weekend at the launch. I'm sure he had good intentions but wow...that is a lot of boat to try and pull out with that truck. Should 'a seen that one coming.

hunting4sanity · « **Reply #3 on:** May 06, 2013, 08:55:45 AM »

That's mighty kind of you to help everyone out. I've had those days were everything goes wrong, a little help means a lot to someone in need.

DoubleJ · « **Reply #4 on:** May 06, 2013, 08:57:08 AM »

Quote from: hunting4sanity on May 06, 2013, 08:55:45 AM

That's mighty kind of you to help everyone out. I've had those days were everything goes wrong, a little help means a lot to someone in need.

HUNTINCOUPLE · « **Reply #5 on:** May 06, 2013, 09:02:53 AM »

Good Monday humor at someone else's ex pence!

Becky · « **Reply #6 on:** May 06, 2013, 09:53:00 AM »

Quote from: lokidog on May 06, 2013, 08:42:39 AM

So, yesterday, I get a call from an elderly (yep Smossy's girl, I used elderly, since he's pushing 80 ) ...

Geeze you elderly men are a cranky bunch aye?

jk.

follow maggie · « **Reply #7 on:** May 06, 2013, 09:00:31 PM »

Wow. I feel bad for that guy. Expensive lesson that if you're going to pull weight, you have to have weight & power

carpsniperg2 · « **Reply #8 on:** May 06, 2013, 09:15:32 PM »

Yikes not fun at all. My dads dodge tried to do it to me once. His floor shifter kicked into neutral when I was backing down the ramp with my boat. Did not know it since I just had my foot on the brakes coasting back. Set the parking break launched the boat and then jumped in to take off up the ramp. Everytime I would let the clutch out and take my foot off the brake I would roll back about a foot. Took me a few tries to figure out was going on and I was getting a little deep

TONTO · « **Reply #9 on:** May 06, 2013, 09:34:16 PM »

Saw guy launch with a Toyota Supra once. Might have gone better but he forgot to unhook the straps of the back. It flaoted the trailer which pulled the car in right behind it.

Heredoggydoggy · « **Reply #10 on:** May 06, 2013, 09:52:22 PM »

Is this what they mean when they say that a boat is a hole in the water that sucks your money down?

It seems like when bad luck hits, it comes in bunches....

cohoho · « **Reply #11 on:** May 08, 2013, 10:20:35 PM »

He has a nice boat that I would love to have...

Special T · « **Reply #12 on:** May 09, 2013, 07:43:24 AM »

I used to love to eat lunch and watch people launch their boats at Lake Samammish State park boat launch. My Favorite was a Corvette that was trying to pull out 21ft Bayliner on wet asphalt! Now that was a smoke show!

seth30 · « **Reply #13 on:** May 13, 2013, 10:51:58 AM »

Good thing you were there to help them

Alchase · « **Reply #14 on:** May 14, 2013, 12:26:51 PM »

The boat ramp at Gene Coulon Park (Lake Washington) on a hot Saturday in the Summer is great cheap entertainment, LOL

NRA4LIFE · « **Reply #15 on:** May 14, 2013, 12:35:46 PM »

The 10th street ramp in Everett is pure entertainment.

Fishstiq · « **Reply #16 on:** May 18, 2013, 10:14:01 AM »

That's a shame. Old truck like that ('58ish?), has lived it's life just fine until this point, and then through no fault of it's own gets dragged into the salt. Brutal.

BOWHUNTER45 · « **Reply #17 on:** May 18, 2013, 10:18:43 AM »

Should of videoed that one ...crazy !!!!! Looks like the livingsten is about to sink too !

Kola16 · « **Reply #18 on:** May 18, 2013, 10:29:10 AM »

Wow! What is going on on those islands lately.....

......and I just have to point out that it is a Chevy

Cylvertip · « **Reply #19 on:** May 18, 2013, 12:16:32 PM »

Quote from: Kola16 on May 18, 2013, 10:29:10 AM

......and I just have to point out that it is a Chevy

"Like a rock"

lokidog · « **Reply #20 on:** May 18, 2013, 12:19:07 PM »

Quote from: Cylvertip on May 18, 2013, 12:16:32 PM

Quote from: Kola16 on May 18, 2013, 10:29:10 AM

......and I just have to point out that it is a Chevy

"Like a rock"

Smossy · « **Reply #21 on:** May 18, 2013, 03:11:26 PM »

More like sunk like a rock.

NW-GSP · « **Reply #22 on:** May 18, 2013, 04:12:23 PM »

With a boat that big couldn't they ire the boat up and have to push the truck a little further up the ramp?

As you can tell I have seen a few episodes of the red green show

gaddy · « **Reply #23 on:** May 18, 2013, 04:18:38 PM »

id be willing to take that soggy truck off thier hands. i really hate it being compaired to a rock.

12Gauge · « **Reply #24 on:** May 18, 2013, 04:24:23 PM »

Quote from: Fishstiq on May 18, 2013, 10:14:01 AM

That's a shame. Old truck like that ('58ish?), has lived it's life just fine until this point, and then through no fault of it's own gets dragged into the salt. Brutal.

That truck will never be the same again.

Now if he goes straight home and pressure washes it then it may have a chance.

gaddy · « **Reply #25 on:** May 18, 2013, 04:32:39 PM »

trust me, id give her a good home. that old gal needs some TLC & will be just fine.
hope the owner addresses her needs asap. a simple bath wont be enough. she needs a therough make over.

lokidog · « **Reply #26 on:** May 18, 2013, 10:43:23 PM »

I was thinking it was too bad we don't have a lake here that they could just have dunked it into to rinse everything. I'm not sure what their plan is but can find out if anyone is interested.

20 Minutes · « **Reply #27 on:** May 21, 2013, 05:09:35 PM »

I worked at Narrows Marina every summer as a kid. We use to sit there and laugh, while watching people lauch their boat and everything they own into the water. Go on Youtube and type in "launching boat". Plenty of entertainment for an evening.

Perhaps that man should downsize his boat and invest in a new truck. He should have known better....

Gobble Doc · « **Reply #28 on:** June 23, 2013, 12:44:09 AM »

Very nice of you to lend a hand.

SemperFidelis97 · « **Reply #29 on:** June 23, 2013, 01:47:49 AM »

Its more scary to me that these people try to pull these boats down the road with severely undersized vehicles. It is a good thing that what happened was harmless, and no one was killed trying to get that thing from A to B.

lokidog · « **Reply #30 on:** June 23, 2013, 08:48:22 AM »

Quote from: SemperFidelis97 on June 23, 2013, 01:47:49 AM

Its more scary to me that these people try to pull these boats down the road with severely undersized vehicles. It is a good thing that what happened was harmless, and no one was killed trying to get that thing from A to B.

No worries on endangering others on the road, we have only a few miles of gravel roads out here.

DoubleJ · « **Reply #31 on:** June 23, 2013, 09:21:02 AM »

The way the wipers are positioned, that truck looks like it's crying

lokidog · « **Reply #32 on:** June 23, 2013, 10:46:10 AM »

Quote from: DoubleJ on June 23, 2013, 09:21:02 AM

The way the wipers are positioned, that truck looks like it's crying

They were twitching like a salmon that's been bonked not quite hard enough.

clindsayrun · « **Reply #33 on:** June 23, 2013, 12:40:34 PM »

A day of people watching at the launch is better than going to the movies...

hntrspud · « **Reply #34 on:** July 16, 2013, 06:37:01 PM »

I am glad you were able to help out. But my question is, why were you playing with another mans dinghy??

just kidding, nice truck, theyre gonna have a lot of work to do to get that one back in shape.

BOWHUNTER45 · « **Reply #35 on:** July 16, 2013, 07:13:52 PM »

Did not this happen last year too

gaddy · « **Reply #36 on:** July 16, 2013, 07:43:09 PM »

lokidog did they decide what to do with that Pu??

bearpaw · « **Reply #37 on:** July 16, 2013, 07:49:03 PM »

good on you for helping out loki...

lokidog · « **Reply #38 on:** July 16, 2013, 09:04:51 PM »

Quote from: gaddy on July 16, 2013, 07:43:09 PM

lokidog did they decide what to do with that Pu??

They bought another rig on the island that they are going to use for its engine.

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