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| JustinAndersen |
posted 11-11-2002 07:12 PM ET (US)  
Jim always does a great job showing BWs in their best light - wonderful stories, great photos... Does anyone want to share either their bad BW stories or even some pics? For example, I have, fallen out of my boat on several occasions (I blame it all on a bad knee (Sure - Ed), hit the same &^%$@# rock going BOTH upstream and downstream... etc. etc. This could be kind of funny... |
| Mullet |
posted 11-11-2002 09:44 PM ET (US)
Yeh, I have a bad story to tell. I needed some money and tried to sink my Whaler to get the insurance $$$. Didn't work. :) |
| ShrimpBurrito |
posted 11-11-2002 11:53 PM ET (US)
My dog jumped overboard to pursue a pelican. And then I almost fell overboard because I was laughing so hard. |
| Hendrickson |
posted 11-12-2002 12:07 AM ET (US)
Bad boater...not bad BW. Dropped my fifteen off the trailer two years in a row, once on gravel and once on tarmac, because I forgot to hook the winch. Have hole in botton at stern to demonstate what can happen. |
| Bigshot |
posted 11-12-2002 09:25 AM ET (US)
Besides multiple groundings(where cooler launches into orbit)and a few close calls with inverting the hull, no real horror stories except.....My RPS in my 76 Montauk w 115 blew out in a high speed manuever and I damn near flew out of the boat. When I regained my composure I realized my Omega watch my parents got me for College graduation was GONE. All I have left is an inch of the band. Another time I was lighting a smoke in my friends 15 w/70 and next thing I know I am standing in the water up to my waist. He swerved and I flew. Another time in a friends 11 we were jumping waves in the Barnegat inlet and I turn to my left and all I see is hull. Another friend came off a swell and we were underneath him and he turned at the last second, missing us by literally a foot or 2. Another time I was engaged with a lovely young woman in the cabin of my 19 revenge which has no doors and really is not a cabin. Anyway the anchor broke lose and next thing I know some kid is pointing at us....ooops! Lastly we were blown out one night and there was a sunken boat down some mangrove canal. I nudged the bow up on the hardtop in 15. My drunken friend nailed the gas and she flew up the hardtop and stopped. Boat did not slide back down and engine went under water.....he sunk my boat! When I was 8 I had a Squall with a 4.5 Eska and the 2nd day I had it the engine fell off(in 32' of water). Ripped the transom off a 13'. Few more but like I said, no horror stories:) |
| Smallfrye |
posted 11-12-2002 09:40 AM ET (US)
Having modified a Montauk by shifting fuel, batteries and all weighty items foreward, adding a jack plate and bullet lower unit, I was ready to run in the skinny water like the redfish pro's ... One of the first trips into the back bays found my son and I running nearly 40mph when we were crouded out of the channel and decided to cut to the outside of the channel marker. ( since this boat will run very shallow) Believe me, the marker is there for a purpose. Water depth went from 4' to 4" at that marker and my shalllow whaler came to an abrupt stop, throwing both of us into the front rail( yes I was wearing the kill switch)and casting all our gear into the bay. After determining all were safe, laughing until we cried and a bit of clean up, we lifted the motor and push back into the channel and continue our trip. Thanks to the soft sand, the whaler had no damage and did run very shallow for years to come. |
| Cameron Park |
posted 11-12-2002 10:53 AM ET (US)
My husband helped me move my new 2002 Sport 130 out of storage area by side of driveway up onto our driveway and then back into garage. I backed my truck up to the boat and trailer and asked him to put it on the hitch. After doing it, he said "go ahead, it's on." I pulled forward and was half-way up our steep driveway when the trailer popped off the ball and rolled unattached back down the driveway, headed for the garage at a fast rate of speed. I couldn't believe what I was seeing in my rearview mirror! My new boat!!!!! At the last second, it turned and came to rest against our tent trailer and retaining wall. The motor was tilted and glanced off the tent trailer and rested above our short retaining wall. I was afraid to look, but when I did I only saw a few small cracks in the gelcoat at the corner of the boat. The motor doesn't even have a scratch. The wheel and license plate took the worst of it. My husband said he didn't think he needed to put the safety chains on. I hitch up my boat now myself. I love my husband, but he doesn't help me with my boat anymore... |
| Landlocked |
posted 11-12-2002 10:54 AM ET (US)
I think I have told this story here somewhere before so I'll give you the cliff note version. I was running a company shock boat wide open in about 6" of water on the Oconee River, Georgia. My boss had stated that bent props were the "cost of doing business" - Perhaps I took it a little far. We had over 30 river miles to cover each day on that job and very few access points. I was able to find an old stump which fit perfectly up the boats tunnel hull where it managed to stop forward progress when coming into contact with the foot of our 35 Merc. To this day don't know how I avoided tearing the foot off. I did manage to sheer all of the rivets in the lower half of the transome off and leave a 2 inch gap. Amazing how quickly a little two inch gap fills a boat with water. Two hours and a roll of duck tape later - we were back under way. Not whaler related, but stupidity is not brand loyal. Ll. |
| Arch Autenreith |
posted 11-12-2002 11:06 AM ET (US)
Many years ago when I just bought the Montauk my sister wants to take it for a spin. Didn’t have the safety lanyard yet. She is at the helm and I’m on the throttle. Full. She keeps holding onto the console rail but let’s go of the helm to grab her beer (b/c it was spilling) and of course it spins hard to starboard. When the chine digs in and stops the slide the boat almost flips. And as I’m falling I pull back on the throttle and I almost go over the port side and land halfway out and on top of the low railing but it did come to a stop. Really scary and a really sobering experience. |
| ShrimpBurrito |
posted 11-12-2002 12:34 PM ET (US)
My 15' SS has been swamped, totally, twice. The first time was on the Colorado River along the AZ/NV border when it was full of camping gear. We were already very heavy and low in the water, but when my girlfriend and dog went up to rest in the front, it took about 30 seconds before we took a huge wave over the front. At the time, the two original 6 gal metal tanks were in the back, but the brackets had rusted. So, they floated out of the boat. Fortunately, everything else was secured, so we didn't loose anything. The fiasco caused a delay in our plans, so we didn't end up setting camp until after dusk. As I bent down to tie the boat up around a tree, I heard a rattling. Fortunately, I stopped, and gave the snake some time to escape. Two near misses in a day made for a peaceful night sleep. The second time was passing very close to an inlet here in Oregon. With my buddy at the helm, he really didn't know what to do in the swells. We swamped again, but this time, everything was tied down. A trawler coming in at the time watched us float back to the surface, and gave us a congratulatory wave. |
| Drisney |
posted 11-12-2002 04:55 PM ET (US)
Please remind me to never boat with Bigshot !! Dave ;' ) |
| Bigshot |
posted 11-12-2002 05:02 PM ET (US)
Hey they were not all my fault! Forgot a good one. I was out in the Atlantic in a Nausett and it started to get nasty. So I headed in and was jumping from crest to crest for better words. I got into the Barnegat inlet and the waves got bigger and farther apart. I stuffed the bow through the back of a wave so hard it broke the windshield, tackle box floated away etc. Just just pulled the plug and nailed it and was high and dry in minutes. Another time we hit a duck doing about 40+. It wacked the railing and splattered all over these 2 girls sitting in front of the console. Another time in a Newport we were jumpng 6' breakers and this girl wacked her knee on the tach and broke her kneecap. For anyone who owns a newport they have come close I bet. Another time at bandcamp...I'll save some more stories for later:) |
| keltonkrew |
posted 11-12-2002 05:37 PM ET (US)
Drisney, I'm with you.
Just joking of course! The upside to going with Bigshot is it seems he's been in many situations and probably can get you out of them, he's still here! |
| BugsyG |
posted 11-12-2002 06:23 PM ET (US)
Multiple whaler bad experiences here...Well One this year, (with my newly restored Montauk), Me and my friend mike were running about 7:30 at night...(when it was still light out but enough so i could have my nav lights on) and we were running in this small channel. And going under the bridge (you have to go under a bridge to get to the channel), this 30' Sea ray comes red-lining for us, and i said heck with him so i nailed the throttle and went in first so i thought of some choice words.....after going through the no wake zone of like 20 ft under the bridge, I nailed it becuase he was going to go up my butt with the boat...so I am running about 32 mph and he nails it and creeps past me throwing a big wake...I thought you @Q#@#$%$# oh man was i ever P.O.'ed So there is one bad experience.
One last one is when we got back from the trip above, (got back in a hurry VIA storm) and i had time to drape the cover over the counsil so nothing would get went there even though there was a foot of water in the boat. So i went to put the anchor away after the storm and i stepped on the cushion (a lower one. there are 3 bow cushions in the montauk) and the cushion slipped and i fell from the dock , in the boat, and the anchor end stabbed my side and i hurt so bad i was crying so hard, i got hit in the kidney but i wasn't peeing blood or anything, but i hurt myself so hard. Note to self, never do that. |
| 11 footer |
posted 11-12-2002 06:35 PM ET (US)
I was on the concord river in my 11 at WOT going around a sharp corner, A PWC is heades strate for me, there is a brance that everyone go's the the right of...... now I know why... I cut the the left and slamed into a muddy sand bar, took the wheel right in the gut and got the wind knocked out of me. It is a real good think I was not with anyone els because they would have gone flying out of the boat. Boston horbor....... 11 |
| 11 footer |
posted 11-12-2002 06:46 PM ET (US)
Last trip out I felt so bad for a older Guy I wanted to cry. I was wating at the dock and a old guy was loading a brand new 15 on the trailer. He had just showed me the boat told me how it was his first time out with it let me take it for a spin ect. Once it was in winched on the trailer he pulled it out with out raising the outboard and draged it up the ramp. Distroying the prop and lower unit. That was very sad to watch My heart broke for him and his new boat. 11 |
| Cpt Quint |
posted 11-12-2002 07:14 PM ET (US)
http://continuouswave.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/003068.html Bad day on the bridge |
| John Bocskay |
posted 11-12-2002 08:25 PM ET (US)
I found an Omega watch on the bottom in New Jersey, it had about an inch of link missing and was inscribed Bigshot, Congradulation's your finally graduated, Love Mom and Dad |
| Bigshot |
posted 11-13-2002 09:47 AM ET (US)
Close....It was in FL and said "Congratulations 1991 Mom & Dad". You can still send me that one though, it will do. Maybe a fish migrated North with it in his stomach? |
| Al_A_Buy |
posted 11-13-2002 11:46 AM ET (US)
Parked my 21' Outrage in the driveway while performing maintenance. While working at the console, the jack wheel jumped the chock and the entire rig began rolling toward the street. In a panic, I grabbed the wheel and tried to steer the carrening Whaler away from the pickup truck parked at the end of the driveway. Fortunatly the trailer tounge passed behind the bumper but, the hull of my boat came to rest on the pickup's bed. Damage to the boat was limited to a couple of small scratches and the truck suffered a busted taillight. Ended up with some neat pictures though. Might submit to Cetecea as an example of interspecies reproduction :-) Al W. |
| Bigshot |
posted 11-13-2002 01:21 PM ET (US)
My bud was working on a clients boat(about 26-28') at his shop. The boat did the same thing with him inside of it and rolled down the driveway, between 2 trees, over the curb and came to rest in the middle of the street. His neighboring business buddies were rolling on the ground laughing. |
| JustinAndersen |
posted 11-13-2002 05:54 PM ET (US)
Bigshot - Exactly how close were you to "inverting" your boat? I've been pretty much where Tom W. Clark was in http://continuouswave.com/whaler/cetacea/cetaceaPage40.html and got pretty worried... especially in a 13 where the wind can blow around a bit. |
| elaelap |
posted 11-14-2002 12:07 AM ET (US)
This one's secondhand (from this week's USAfishing Bodega Bay Fishing Report on the web): "A quick little story from my commercial years crabbing out the Gate. One of the commercial boats that fished in our group ... was running his gear off Double Point when he noticed something strange in the water a mile or so up his string. They kept pulling pots, rebaiting and tossing them back until he finally realized it was a small Boston Whaler..... belly up. Arriving on the swamped 17 foot boat, two wet and very cold anglers were hanging onto the bottom of their craft. The prop fouled in the rope as they were pulling it and due to the small size of their boat and the sloppy weather was successful in tossing them in the drink. Now the commercial operator was in a quandary. Two thieves shivering from hypothermia.... do I save their butts or use them for bait? He quickly pulled both men on board and offered them coffee and blankets despite the fact that they were literally caught with their hand in the cookie jar. (The owner of the Whaler later became a commercial crabber and is to this day). On the other side of the coin is this operator's mind set that all sport boats have no right to be taking HIS crabs and he is not only outspoken critic on the issue has also been known to cut sport anglers buoys to "discourage" them from fishing. The moral of the story is... be honest and pull only the gear that belongs to you and be prepared if you don't..." A 16/17 belly-up?! Talk about shame.... |
| thunderbay |
posted 11-14-2002 12:55 AM ET (US)
Not my story, but Bigshot reminded me of it with his hitting of the duck, not to long ago on the east coast of Florida where Mercury tests there motors, some company was testing high performance jet skis, one steering and another out back I suppose monitoring stuff, and a duck flew straight at them first guy " ducked" but it hit and killed the second guy! No joke, but I cant help but wonder if the guy yelled DUCK! |
| Bigshot |
posted 11-14-2002 09:56 AM ET (US)
Justin....That is a great pic of Clark's boat(why I posted it elsewhere) but that is NOWHERE near being scary. I have had the prop literally 6-8 feet off the water which makes the bow 15-20' high. I have come so close to flipping that when I landed the engine went under water and both gas tanks(along with anchor, etc) flew out. We had to turn around and get the tanks before we ran out of gas. I have cleared yacht wakes which means that I flew high and far enough to land in clean water so maybe 40'. You better know what you are doing when you pull stunts like I used to(still do kinda) or you can wind up dead or in jail or hurt someone else. I am bragging just because you asked but I do NOT recommend trying it. I grew up jumping breakers in the Barnegat inlet and it is kinda like a 1/2 pipe for skaters, I know what looks good and what does not, etc. I have also done it since I was 11 or 12 and only in Whalers. The best jumping boat was my 74 revenge. You could literally hit a 10 footer that was curling or breaking and just duck behind the windshield. That boat was so nose heavy that you always flew perfectly. It is also a tad hard on the hull, engine, and passengers/driver. I regret doing some of that stuff 20 some years later. Thunder that is a true story but what I heard on the news was the guy was testing it for a customer after installing some mods and a guy on shore was using the radar gun. The guy with the gun looked at the reading and when he looked up the jetski was unmanned. They found a dead duck and a dead rider. He was doing like 65mph. Another shame story but not Whaler related. I had this 15 Glastron when I was like 17 with a 50 merc. I was at a 4th of July party and was involved in a beer squall with some buddies. I dropped some people off on shore and headed back to the sandbar party. I came in to the sandbar at WOT(about 30+) and the beach dropped off fast like almost straight so it was like a ramp, great for kneeboarding. Anyway...I launched off the lip about 3' in the air, came down and slid on the sand about 20' to a stop. The boat leaned over to one side and everyone was just looking at me in puzzlement. My buzzed self stumbled out of the boat and I said "If James bond can do it, why can't I?" My friends were like not only are you crazy but how the hell are we gonna get the boat back in the water. We eventually did and I guess those Glastrons are tougher than they appear. Again, I am not necessarily proud of some of my hooligan antics but this is the "Hall of Shame" right. Again, kids do not try this at home! |
| JustinAndersen |
posted 12-02-2002 01:56 PM ET (US)
OK, so not everyone can be as James Bond - like as BigShot but my guess is more people have good stories that they do(n't) want to share... I'd be about 15 or so and starting to experiment with alcohol... A buddy and myself were trolling in his Dad's 15'SS on a great sunny afternoon when I fell asleep, he fell asleep and next thing you know we ran up onto someone's private beach. Of course, we wake up, stare at each other, realize what has happened and look out - not even 5 feet from us is the guy who owns the cottage, sitting there in an aluminum lawn chair trying to read the paper, shaking with anger. We jump out, push the boat back into the water and gunned it out of there. Surreal. |
| David Ratusnik |
posted 12-02-2002 02:24 PM ET (US)
Bad story-- almost a sad story. Turkey day I was following a friends Suntracker pontoon boat, that was carrying the wife, daughter and some of our cockers. I trailed in the 22'OR with 2 of our cockers plus a friends dog who had never boated before. Must have hit a minor piece of chop. Be/c as I was moving along I noted 2 dogs rather than 3. Kept counting- just 2, I've suppose to have 3. huh! Turned and followed the prop line. I could not find the rookie boating dog. After letting me get frantic, the folks on the pontoon boat held his soaking A** up showing a safe but scared cocker. Seems to take one good scare for these dogs to play it safe on a boat. David |
| 11 footer |
posted 12-02-2002 03:17 PM ET (US)
My dog fell off me whaler too!!!! I was on the concord river about 2 years ago, when I had an 8hp. I was right in the middle of the river at WOT and I hit a rock, my little dog had her paws on the bow, I did not even think of her, I pulled up the merc to make sure all was ok ,it was, I look up and see her little head and paws swimming side ways in the curent and she made it to land. I just fired up merc and beached the boat and she jumped right in. I still wish i saw her go over, she mush have gone head over heals. 11 |
| 11 footer |
posted 12-02-2002 03:19 PM ET (US)
My dog fell off me whaler too!!!! I was on the concord river about 2 years ago, when I had an 8hp. I was right in the middle of the river at WOT and I hit a rock, my little dog had her paws on the bow, I did not even think of her, I pulled up the merc to make sure all was ok ,it was, I look up and see her little head and paws swimming side ways in the curent and she made it to land. I just fired up merc and beached the boat and she jumped right in. I still wish i saw her go over, she mush have gone head over heals. 11 |
| BOB KEMMLER JR |
posted 12-02-2002 03:23 PM ET (US)
I was going to chincoteague fishing a couple years ago.I was going across the second to the last bridge before the island when my boat and trailer came undone from my truck,went through the bridge and then airborne onto the rocks and mud.A total loss,including 4 broken rods,and asst items.The good thing,nobody was coming from the island at that moment.The darn thing was still latched and the safety chains broke. |
| BugsyG |
posted 12-02-2002 07:57 PM ET (US)
When I was running one day, beautiful morning, no boats out..sky is greyish. And i am running and all of a sudden, there is a big black storm heading my way. So I had to high-tail it back into Cedar Point. (Keep in mind that this is like 7 in the morning. And i got back just in time. I draped the cover over the counsil to cover up electronics and it started pouring! Afterwords the water was like a foot in my montauk. Thank god for automatic bilge pumps! -- Once again, another nearly-missed disaster at sea! J.A.Z.Z. |
| alkar |
posted 12-02-2002 09:32 PM ET (US)
Shrimpster - nice to see there's another Oregonian on this site. I guess that makes two whaler-owners in North Rivre Jet Boat country... |
| Dick |
posted 12-02-2002 10:07 PM ET (US)
Haven't had any realy bad experience with the Montauk. The last time I was out I launched on my side of the lake and boated to work. The weather socked in and by the time I headed home the visability was bad and you couldn't read the water. I had seen this big trawler going down the lake but didn't give it a thought. I was running wide open when I hit the wake. Didn't know a Montauk could fly that well. The worst was not with a Whaler and my fault. Late September on the Kenai river in Alaska fishing for Silvers. I was heading upriver to a different fishing spot in my Duckworth river boat, the Kenai river is like a snake but there are some shortcuts. I took the normal shortcut at close to 50mph forgetting that this late in the year the water was down and that shortcut didn't have any water in it. High and dry on a sand bar, beer spilled, dog and wife not happy. Took us hours to get the boat turned and out of there. My wife didn't go fishing with me again. |
| Bigshot |
posted 12-03-2002 10:14 AM ET (US)
Is that a bad thing Dick? |
| JBCornwell |
posted 12-03-2002 11:09 AM ET (US)
Nothing spectacular. I once submarined my Sakonnet into a wave and swamped her to the gunnels. Plug was out, so I just drove her dry. I now leave the plug out when running in heavy water. I fish Lake Of The Woods a lot. There are about eleventy bazillion rocks within inches of the surface there. Never harmed a hull, but sincerely blessed SkegGard a couple of times. Once in my 13 and once in my son's Montauk. Now I have Fishing Hotspots on my Garmin and haven't found an uncharted rock since. I bless Garmin and Mapsource on every trip. Pretty tame compared to some of the above, but being airborne (unplanned) at 35-40 mph is scary to me. I look forward to meeting and sharing a few with you someday, Bigshot. Let's do it ashore.:) Red sky at night. . . |
| Bigshot |
posted 12-03-2002 01:20 PM ET (US)
Aw heck....I've mellowed out. I have not hit a yacht wake in a couple.....eh.....weeks! One HAS to love & bless the skeggard, hell of an invention. |
| JustinAndersen |
posted 12-03-2002 02:09 PM ET (US)
SkegGard??? Sounds like something I need... Anyone have additional info? |
| Dick |
posted 12-03-2002 03:09 PM ET (US)
[url]www.skeggard.com{/url] |
| Dick |
posted 12-03-2002 03:11 PM ET (US)
Sory. www.skeggard.com |
| 11 footer |
posted 12-03-2002 03:20 PM ET (US)
I have one more, Last spring me and my dad were heading out to boston horbor to pick up a moring in my 11. We had the gas tank near the bow so we could plane and him and me were in the back of the boat, I was driveing. An old wooden 40+foot chris craft was heading the other way, The chris was at point were it was almost on a plane buy not yet, the thing was throwing a really big wake. I was looking at the chris and not were I was going and hit the wake at WOT, The 11's came about prop came about 4 feet out of the water. I held on the the wheel and and came down for a soft landing. My dad came up off the seat when the boat came up and slamed his ass on the fiberglass seat with only a thin pad on it. In the process the broke his tail bone. He has only been out about three times with me since then. To this day he tail bone still bothers him. (only in a whaler) 11 |
| PMUCCIOLO |
posted 12-03-2002 03:20 PM ET (US)
At age 15, I managed to swamp my dad's 1972 Outrage 21 in Ponce Inlet while picking up a man who had flipped his 17 Whaler. That hinged transom door and bilge pump did a wonderful job of evacuating the water. With the low freeboard of that boat, it gave me the "sinking feeling" for a few seconds before its positive bouyancy took over. |
| Whaler Proud |
posted 12-03-2002 04:02 PM ET (US)
Well, I have my own stupid experience. It did not happen on a Whaler, but it is something I am not overly proud of. During the summer of 1979 a group of football tem mates and I went to Big Bend just below Parker dam on the Colorado river. It was a farewell weekend before we all had to report to our respective football training camps in college (we had all been on the same junior college team) and we were drinking pretty heavy. My friend Tobin had brought his dad's turbo-charged v-drive. We were racing up and down the river at WOT and having a hell of a time. We got bored with this and decided to do "depth charges". One at a time we would launch off the boat while gong 3/4 to WOT and skip across the river. If you stayed on your back, you would skip 50 yards or more. If you didn't, then you would spin uncontrollably and slam to a stop. A lot of pain when that happened. We really didn't realize the damage we had done to our bodies until the next day when all 8 of us woke up bruised pretty much from head to toe. Why we didn't drown, I'll never know. |
| BQUICK |
posted 12-03-2002 05:37 PM ET (US)
In Long Island at the beach off Shinnecock Inlet I was coming in as close as possible then heading out and jumping the incoming waves (showing off to the surfers and people on shore). After 5 or so sucesses I didn't make it over one....dunked the 50 Merc and got washed ashore. After lots of pulling on the starter cord got it to fire and finally made it back out with the help of beach people. Also, once jumped a wake and came down hard and broke the plastic steering wheel on my 71 and had to steer home with the hub! |
| nugie |
posted 12-03-2002 11:15 PM ET (US)
My dad still to this day (20 years later) swears that I broke the steering wheel on our 13' classic w/ 40 merc. while out jumping Lake Michigan waves. I protest. I would have never done that at age 12. |
| nugie |
posted 12-03-2002 11:16 PM ET (US)
at thirteen maybe...but not twelve |
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