WWA Info Exchange

This is the same crew who helped roll over the jeep. This is what they do on their day off.

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Tim Eastman
Lead by example - be an example worth following

I know that is not the ONLY time that something like that has occured.

In my highschool days, a classmate did that to his dads boat, trailer and Oldsmobile!
Not only did he NOT set the parking brake, he hadn't even had time to un- strap the boat from the trailer or put the drain plug in! The whole rig did not completely dissapper but, there was water damage to everything and the life jackets floated away.

Rog

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Dont badmouth no strangers, they just friends you aint met yet.

An ounce of responsibility is worth a pound of State and Federal laws.

I spent most of my money on woodworking
tools and beer, the rest I just wasted.

That happend so often at Lake McConaughy in Ogalala NE, that they re-built all of the boat ramps with a very shallow entry. So shallow, that you have to disconnect the boat trailer and roll it into the water by hand to get the boat off or on it. That or flood the inside of your truck. DAMHIKT

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Frank
WWACOAUX#1
"I love the smell of Sawdust in the morning, it smells like, victory."
WWA'ers I've met: Popeye, Ed Avery, Stephen Wolf, Rockfish, Rodedon

After spending the last 40+ years fishing on the gulf coast with my dad we have seen the best and the worst of people launch boats and PWC's.

My dad and I have spent some late mornings and afternoons watching the action, I have seen a few boats left dry on the ramp without the trailer, one day my friend had just replaced his rollers with the slick pads and when he backed up to the ramp, the boat came off the trailer about 25 feet short, to say the lest the hull had a case of ramp rash.

Usually most of the time it's just fun watching newbies just trying to back a trailer straight down a ramp, or trying to get the boat back onto the trailer after a day of boating, remeber, boats have no brakes.

Of couse I myself am flawless in my trailering abilities.


Allen

I've had just 2 problems at boat ramps. Once I left the rudder of the sailboat down and locked, that took about a foot off the end of it. I thought everybody was yelling and waving to be nieghborly.

The second one was also getting out, we had a hard cross wind and we were on the down wind side of the dock. I'd started pulling forward, thinking that Jo was still holding onto the dockline attached to the rear of the boat. Just as I looked and saw her walking beside the truck, I heard a loud bump. That was the boat falling off the down wind fender and onto the ramp.

It took about 15 min, the wife backing the truck and trailer while me and another boater were lifting the back of the boat to get it back afloat again. BTW this is a 22' sail boat, so we were chest deep in the water.

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Frank
WWACOAUX#1
"I love the smell of Sawdust in the morning, it smells like, victory."
WWA'ers I've met: Popeye, Ed Avery, Stephen Wolf, Rockfish, Rodedon

Thanks for that Tim... only pity is that there was no video!

Ray

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I aim to live for ever.... and it's taking me that long to get my workshop finished!