Posted on 05/22/2015 1:28:45 PM PDT by VRW Conspirator
Charles Bronson to chick: “Here, let me tickle your tonsils”.
I was on Millacs Lake in Minnesota. It is big. About 12 x 18 miles. The way you fish is to find a spot then drift with the current. It is not unusual to have dozens of boats around you doing this.
Some yaahoo is going full tilt in his boat right down the middle of all these boats. The nose was up so high he could not see where he was going. The person perched in the small seat up front had to point out that he was heading straight for us. The guy turned but not before I was figuring out where and when to jump out of the boat. He did not slow down.
Another time a boat snag our lines. That one got away.
#18 they look like they all have er... flotation devices
I think I broke my funnybone.
Quite a few years ago I was camping at Lake Oolagah in Oklahoma. I think I was the only person in the campground. It was I think in April.
I had purchased a used military Carl Zeiss binocular and was sitting at a concrete pic-nic table. I was scanning the lake and noticed a sailboat overturned with two people sitting on it.
The temperature was in the 40s with steady high wind. They were also soaking wet. I went to the Ranger station and told them. I then went back and watched.
Pretty soon a Lake Patrol boat left a marina and soon had a rope on the sailboat and the passengers on board. They towed it to the marina.
I never heard anything more but I am certain they were in a life threatening situation.
Thanks, I just bought a 1974 14ft Sea Nymph v-hull with a 15hp Johnson outboard a couple days ago. It’s in great shape. Come to think of it, I was a young Marine then. Everyone needs to watch “7 person boat crash”
That is Awesome! We had a late 60’s model 16ft Larson Lapline when I was a kid. We had a great time with it.
(80hp Johnson OB)
I have found that people breathing was involved in 99.9% of all accidents.
The other .1 is classified.
I can manhandle the motor with no problem even at my age.
I bet that 80hp took two men and a boy to carry. Farm girl strong :)
Everybody forgets the plug... once. ;-)
Watch the weather and wear your life jackets. Just recently. Two men went out on the harbor. We had a quick pop-up storm, significant winds hit the lower half of the harbor, near where they went in. Boat was found idling in circles. Bodies were later recovered, neither had on life jackets.
Nothing like pulling away from the ramp and seeing
water rising at your feet...so I’ve heard.
Saw a couple of guys not ratchet the boat to the
trailor drop their Skeeter on the ramp.
I can’t see as well anymore and my boat is at the bottom of the lake so that leaves drinking tell my liver gives out.
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