Never a dull moment at the boat ramp....

[lokidog]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Good Monday humor at someone else's ex pence!

[Becky]

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]

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

[carpsniperg2]

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]

 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]

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]

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

[Special T]

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]

Good thing you were there to help them

[Alchase]

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