I wouldn't say "Everything". :lol::lol::lol::lol:
Through all my years on the water, I've only done a few. Mine have included:
1) Not putting the plug in (but I realized it before backing off the trailer.
2) Forgetting to put the engine up before I drove up the ramp (ground my skeg up)
3) Getting too close to another boat that had it's prop out of the water (gouged my fiberglass)
4) Tied up to a dock with a big bolt sticking out the side of it (gouged my fiberglass)
5) Tried to start my engine - wouldn't even crank over. I started trolling back towards the dock. About a half hour into my journey, I looked back to see the engine gearshift in gear.
I walked back, put it in neutral, turned the key, and she cranked right up.
6) Ran up on a big mud flat. Had to dig my boat out. Long day, hard work...
7) Idled over a boulder. Whack! Whack! Whack! Whack! (All four blades torn up pretty bad)
But I've seen some doozies that others have done...
1) A club member backed the trailer into the water, boat started sliding off, so he throws the truck in "park" and jumps out (never made it to park... so the truck followed the trailer...) That was Kerr Reservoir at North Bend. The guys truck was in something like 20 feet of water. He was checking it out on his sonar. :lol:
2) Saw a guy take out a boat on a trailer because he was flying through the parking lot to put up his trailer/truck after he put his boat in. He hit the boat engine so hard with his left side trailer tire, it nocked the boat halfway off the trailer. That was at Yeopim River, NC.
3) Some lady tied her boat loosly to the pier at Chickahominy River and went to park her truck. Her boat started pulling the rope with the strong incoming tide and the next thing you know, her boat is floating down Gordon's Creek. One of our club members took her to her boat.
4) Saw a game warden give out about 100 tickets in a single morning at a Region 7 BASS tournament on the same ramp I just mentioned in #3. People were seeing him writing tickets, but they just kept on doing their thing... "business as usual". The minute they would dunk their boat in the water, he would hand them a ticket for not having their lights on.
One after the other. Some people were even warning the others... they still didn't turn their lights on.
5) A former club member was running his new BassCat around the islands at Northwest River, VA. You kind of "S turn" through them a few times. Well, he started the S, swung back to hard, and beached his boat on the far shore as the rest of us went by. The entire club turned around and came back to make sure he was ok. Only thing hurt was his pride.
6) Same club member in #5 bought 4 rods from me because he broke his. The day of our tournament on South Lake NC, I saw him putting them under his "Rod Savers" (the velcro ones). I barely heard the velcro, so I walked over and asked him if they were still ok. He said they were fine. He exits the launch area canal, hits a big wake from a barge and when he comes down I see two rods fly out of his boat on the left, and two fly out of his boat on the right.
7) I've actually got a million funny stories about the same club member in #5 and #6... but it would take all night. So best one yet -
He is fishing a cove with docks and he overhead casts his lure. His line goes over one of those wind-activated ducks - the cutout kind with the wings on each side that rotate in the wind. The line gets stuck in the duck wings and he feels it. Natural reaction to a line tug overrides his own eyesight and he "sets the hook" on the duck. He said it sounded like a 12 gauge went off when that rod exploded in his hands. :lol::lol::lol:
Feel better yet? :lol::lol::lol:
All the best,
Glenn
