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2010/03/30 16:44:45 (permalink)

Launch ramp FAIL

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    BIGSLICK
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    RE: Launch ramp FAIL 2010/03/31 12:22:43 (permalink)
    This reminds me of something that I saw at Walnut Launch last year...Seen a guy forget to take his stearn tie downs off the trailer and backed his boat in...Needless to say the boat and the trailer were floating.....Wish I would have taken a picture.. I can't count how many times I have seen plugless boats and the owner scrambling...
     



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    RE: Launch ramp FAIL 2010/03/31 14:54:56 (permalink)
    Wasn't a guy and his son going out for some night walleye was it
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    RE: Launch ramp FAIL 2010/03/31 20:57:29 (permalink)
    ORIGINAL: bulldog1

    Wasn't a guy and his son going out for some night walleye was it

     
    Negative....It was a Starcraft Islander 19'



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    RE: Launch ramp FAIL 2010/03/31 21:46:20 (permalink)
    Only ever forgot the plug once.  No scrambling though.  There's one chained in my bilge that can be inserted from the inside......just in case I forget to put it in from the outside.
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    RE: Launch ramp FAIL 2010/04/01 00:57:30 (permalink)
    There's one chained in my bilge that can be inserted from the inside......just in case I forget to put it in from the outside.


    I LIKE THAT SUGGESTION!!! Thank you TA... I am currently ripping apart a 16.5' Starcraft(complete strip out for the redo)and I will remember that suggestion and one will be added to the bilge area. I forgot it... once!!! and luckily caught it quickly so no damage done, sure felt like an idiot at the time.... guess I was just anxious to get fishing.

    Launch ramp mishaps happen, tis human nature to screw up... now repeating the mishap is a problem... of course, I don't think the pic above quite qualifies as a mishap... I'm not sure what I would call it, but I would have sure been snapping pics!
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    RE: Launch ramp FAIL 2010/04/01 10:29:33 (permalink)
    I think that's called a $150,000 insurance claim
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