Boat fail confessions!

jbolty · 04-19-2016, 10:35 AM

This sort of fits in here. Made me laugh anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qHdPhkSSNQ

CrownRay · 04-19-2016, 10:51 AM

I was about...hmmm...17 maybe? We were on the way back from a day of boating. We arrived at our dock on the Weirs Channel. Everything was going fine. I slowly pulled forward into the dock, and as the boat slipped ever so gently past the posts, I, in my 17 year old block of a brain decided "Hmm, this would be a good time to shut the engine off".

Now, I had been driving boats for 5 years that day. But for some reason, decided to see what would happen when you kill the engine to a moving boat, that weighs about 5000 pounds...well, guess what happened to our dock that day

...yeah.. You can't put into reverse a boat that isn't running! DUMAS!

04-19-2016, 10:51 AM	#2
CrownRay Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Medford MA/Blackcat Island Posts: 148 Thanks: 0 Thanked 25 Times in 16 Posts	I was about...hmmm...17 maybe? We were on the way back from a day of boating. We arrived at our dock on the Weirs Channel. Everything was going fine. I slowly pulled forward into the dock, and as the boat slipped ever so gently past the posts, I, in my 17 year old block of a brain decided "Hmm, this would be a good time to shut the engine off". Now, I had been driving boats for 5 years that day. But for some reason, decided to see what would happen when you kill the engine to a moving boat, that weighs about 5000 pounds...well, guess what happened to our dock that day ...yeah.. You can't put into reverse a boat that isn't running! DUMAS! __________________ "The ocean (or lake) itself is not dangerous, it's the hard stuff around the edges that will kill you."

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04-19-2016, 10:35 AM	#1
jbolty Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2015 Posts: 672 Thanks: 323 Thanked 257 Times in 153 Posts	This sort of fits in here. Made me laugh anyway. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qHdPhkSSNQ

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