Launch ramp antics

[Full_Monte]

 

[Bduck]

movie89586

 

[BAC]

The best or worst incident I've ever seen at the launch happened a couple years back during a bad storm at Willard Bay. The waves inside the South Marina were over 2.5 feet plus. This big cigar boat, one of those really expensive type comes pulling in, let's the driver get out to get the trailer. Driver drives down with a fully decked out F350, lift, topper, etc. The guy in the boat tries several times to 'gently' put the boat on the trailer and fails. Finally he gets frustrated enough that he guns it. The boad jumps the trailer and about 5 ft of it crashes through the topper and right into the bed of the boat. I think there was over $20-30K worth of damage.

 

[Mojo]

For several years a bnch of my buds and I would go to Sekiu in September for the off the hook coho salmon fishing. One year we camped at Olsens Resort, right next to the docks. It happened to be the weekend of the big silver derby, and we got back to our moorage about 5:00pm. While sitting in our lawn chairs in the rain drinking beer, we noticed the launch line was bout a mile long. Most people were ready to launch when they got to the 4 wide ramp, just dumped the boat in, and hauled the trailer away. One stud rolls in, blocking all 4 ramps, and procedes to unhitch his boat trailer. He then jockeys the truck around and hitches up to a hitch on the front of his truck. It only took him 3 tries to get the boat in the water. He then pulls the trailer out, remembers the plug, and runs down in time to put it in before the boat sank. Bilge is blowing water like a fire hose now, and they guys truck and trailer are once again blocking all 4 lanes. He runs back up, un hitches, jockeyes truck, hitches backup and drives to our lot. Then he wanted us to help push his trailer into a spot, which we did. About the time we all were making fun of anyone who had a hitch on the front of their truck, I noticed BorntoFish01 had one on his. As soon as we got home he posted it for sale on a steelheader board we both belong to with the notice "never used" on the bottom. Of course it was a joke, but it still cracks me up.

The antics at that ramp continued long into the noght, but the beer fogged my memories, and that is still the one that sticks in my mind...