I took the boys to a local lake to fish today. They are young and there is a playground there for when they get tired of fishing. Things were going slow and after a while I saw someone backing down the boat launch. No biggie we were some distance off. I got a bite and was paying attention to the pole. I glanced back over at the launch and...



I don't know what happened but OOPS!

BUMMER FOR HIM!!!!!

Just glad I wasnt him

Holy cow thats terrible! Im Laughing a little but glad it wasnt me.
Jim

It suck to be him.

really sucks to be his insurance company.

That sux. Hopefully the engine is okay it does not look like their is a chance it did not make it to the intake. If he gets some one to pull him out and put some clean oil in it pull the plugs and crank to get any water out it should be okay.

I have only ever seen that happen one time, a guy was standing on the roof of his truck and water was up to his waist. That would be an electrical nightmare to repair.

I witnessed something like this when I was 15. We were vacationing in Kansas - staying at Pomona Lake (res) and I was wondering over by the boat launch near the campground. There was a guy in an old truck trying to launch his boat. Problem for him was that either his parking brake gave out or his transmission gave out or both - because the truck didn't stop until it was underwater. The boat was still attached to the trailer by the winch line - and somehow had capsized during this failed launch. Instead of a tow truck showing up like I expected - a big line truck from the local utility company shows up - big winch on the front. Running what I'm guessing now to be 3/4" cable - he snaps onto the tow hooks on the front of the truck and yards the whole damn works out of the water. Poor bastiages had to flip the boat and try to recover what they could of what got dumped out. I don't recall what happened much after that - I'm guessing they probably had a flatbed come and tow both the truck and the boat home.


I've watched a lot of boaters forget to install the drain plug before launching - only to realize this after parking the truck & getting the family on board.

I watched one guy like this launch his boat with an old early 80's Mercury (or maybe it was a Lincoln) sedan. He had what was probably a 14 foot glass boat. When he launched he had the damn trunk lid partially submerged - his brake lights & exhaust were well underwater. Wife was NOT impressed with his seamanship from what I could tell. He got all pissed off about forgetting the plug that instead of just pulling the boat out of the water, draining the water out, installing hte plug and continuing their day - he snorted and huffed and swore and sped off after getting the boat back on the trailer.

Attention to detail!

Ya'll are great at bringing back bad memories.

Many years ago (early 80's) when I was stationed at Offutt AFB we got a call that a car had slid down the boat ramp into the base lake...

Don't remember why but the car was sitting on the boat ramp when it went splash....

Had a little kid in the car in a car seat

Divers found the car several hours later, it had somehow been pushed under the ramp......

They worked the kid, but he was gone.....

Anyone get charged with murder on that one? Just from what you're saying - it brings up thoughts of a mommie who snapped and killed her kid for whatever reason (custody dispute is #1 thought there).