moloch16
Well-known member
Great boat ramp story - yes I was the boat ramp idiot yesterday here's my story.
Keep in mind this my brand new boat and trailer, about the 5th time I'm putting it in the water.
Took the day off of work to go fishing. Beautiful warm winter day for fishing, light winds. Excited! I get to the ramp and prep the boat as usual, back her down the first time and find I left the tieoff rope in the bow and I can't get it without getting me feet wet, so I pull up to get the rope, no problem. Pull up, get the rope and set it in the truck bed so I can reach it, back the boat back down. Strange the boat isn't coming off the trailer like it usually does, no problem I'll get out and pull it off using the rope. Huh, it's not coming off by pulling either what's up with this? OH! I forgot to undo the rear tiedowns! Duh! Not use to those, figured I'd forget eventually. Let me just tied this rope to the dock cleat and pull up to get the tie downs off.
Here's where it get's fun. I get in the truck and start pulling forward and WHAM the boat jerks off the trailer hard to the left. What??? Get out to see what happened and oh - I tied the bow of the boat to the dock cleat. Holy crap I have my boat at a 90 degree angle off the trailer half way up the boat ramp and things are seriously FUBAR at this point. I'm in full freak out mode cuz this my BRAND NEW BOAT and TRAILER
So back down to relieve the tension on the bow rope, nearly rip my bicep lifting the bow of the boat over and back on the trailer sorta (best I could, enough to get it back in the water at least). Anyhow get it in the water and ready to fish but I'm not in a good state of mind for fishing now
Damage done: Ripped off some plastic bunk slicks, bent the hell out of a bunk guide (had to bend it back at the ramp), and one of the bunk guides was hanging on by a thread, will need to be reinforced. I did some damage control in the parking lot, have some repairs left to do, and felt sick the rest of the day for messing up my new stuff!
Don't do that.
Keep in mind this my brand new boat and trailer, about the 5th time I'm putting it in the water.
Took the day off of work to go fishing. Beautiful warm winter day for fishing, light winds. Excited! I get to the ramp and prep the boat as usual, back her down the first time and find I left the tieoff rope in the bow and I can't get it without getting me feet wet, so I pull up to get the rope, no problem. Pull up, get the rope and set it in the truck bed so I can reach it, back the boat back down. Strange the boat isn't coming off the trailer like it usually does, no problem I'll get out and pull it off using the rope. Huh, it's not coming off by pulling either what's up with this? OH! I forgot to undo the rear tiedowns! Duh! Not use to those, figured I'd forget eventually. Let me just tied this rope to the dock cleat and pull up to get the tie downs off.
Here's where it get's fun. I get in the truck and start pulling forward and WHAM the boat jerks off the trailer hard to the left. What??? Get out to see what happened and oh - I tied the bow of the boat to the dock cleat. Holy crap I have my boat at a 90 degree angle off the trailer half way up the boat ramp and things are seriously FUBAR at this point. I'm in full freak out mode cuz this my BRAND NEW BOAT and TRAILER
So back down to relieve the tension on the bow rope, nearly rip my bicep lifting the bow of the boat over and back on the trailer sorta (best I could, enough to get it back in the water at least). Anyhow get it in the water and ready to fish but I'm not in a good state of mind for fishing now
Damage done: Ripped off some plastic bunk slicks, bent the hell out of a bunk guide (had to bend it back at the ramp), and one of the bunk guides was hanging on by a thread, will need to be reinforced. I did some damage control in the parking lot, have some repairs left to do, and felt sick the rest of the day for messing up my new stuff!
Don't do that.