Dumbest thing ever witnessed on the water

[BensonWdby]

We were at a local boat launch and had just come out. The next guys in behind us had been out on the lake a long time, and alchohol was involved. They had a small pickup to pull their old tri-hull with. One guy in the boat one in the truck. Guy back down, get out ouf the truck, leave door open and apparently in gear, or as a minimum, no parking brake.

End result - by the time the guy got back into the truck the water was up to the top of the seats. We did not stick around to see the extraction process.

[Razzman]

OK i'll play! I got two, this ones kinda long and it's off/on/off the water! I actually posted this one on WW about three weeks ago and forgot to post it here i think?

So what is it with all the inconsiderate, it's all about me moron douches!? Went out to our local lake, Don Pedro, and on the way hit the last gas stop to top the boat. I filled up and pulled out of the way, had to back away cause some moron backed in in front of me and blocked my exit!

Any way my buddy pulls in where i was, filled his boat and flipped around to fill the truck and some total douche driving a black hummer towing an older VLX DD flew in the driveway and tried to snipe the pump before he got fully pulled up! His wife was blocking the drive until he got there so these morons whip around to the other side and smash the trailer into the steel hoop pump guard! Takes them 5 minutes to un-entangle themselves! We bail the gas stop and i'm thinking i don't these idiots anywhere near me.

We launch at Pedro, and pull over by the auxilary dock waiting for the rest of our 4 boat group to launch and while waiting i see the gas douches come down the ramp, cutting off others and take 10 minutes to put the freaking boat in! They proceed to tie a donut tube to the front of the tower almost blocking all forward view!

So they head out while we're waiting for our last boat to launch but fifteen minutes later their back! Forgot the plug and damn near swamped the boat! Shoulda seen how much water came out! They tie the ramp up for 20 minutes now!

Were outta there and spend the full day on the water, coming in at 6:30pm and there's the gas douche boat tied to the dock! They're all standing on the dock, tying it up waiting for the trailer! Hummer dude finally shows at the top and goes around everyone and literally cuts off my buddies wife backing into her lane! Everyone yells at him and he says, no lie, "My boats down there!" So's everyone else's azzbag!

So check 'em out, he back into lane 4 and then drags his boat with a rope across 4 lanes behind other trailers to get on his trailer! What a freaking douche!

I had hoped if gas douche read this maybe he'd get a clue, it'll never happen though.

Stupid people!

[Razzman]

We spent this past July 4th week on Lake Shasta. It was windy a bit and when the water whips up from wind and boats it washes the red clay/dirt out into the water and hides obstructions. Well the lake was dropping anywhere from 6-12" a day and small land masses were popping up all over. Most were easily visible and fairly close to shore. I make it a rule to avoid any discolored areas, ya never know!

Well my brother-in-law cut a corner coming out of a cove to close to shore and hit one and he immediately starting taking on water! Luckily a sheriff came by and towed him to shore were he beached it. Ripped the rudder backwards tearing a 6x6" hole in the bottom! Prop, strut and shaft gone! Amazingly the rudder was ok!

So the next day i go back with the wife and friends to see the scene and as were standing off about 60' an older Air Nautique is coming down the lake at around 35mph heading straight at it! We wave them off but they just wave back and keep coming and hit it sqaure on throwing the boat up 6' and it slams back into the water! Nobody was hurt amazingly and they motor very slow away ignoring our calls to beach and check it. Turns out it was a marina rental with four east indian guys who've never driven a boat!

Saw it later at the marina on a hoist and everything underneath was gone! I don't know how it even moved!

[skiyaker]

well this doesn't count as the dumbest thing ever on the water- but it's the dumbest thing I've ever been asked on the water. I was anchored in a cove swimming with my family and neighbors yesterday when some middle aged dude with a bunch of teenage girls in a mastercraft X star comes up and starts giving me crap about my boat- he started asking stuff like "did that outback come with a free steak?" and "did you have to go to australia to get that boat, mate?" I'm pretty sure he was just being a jerk but I wasn't even sure what to say- then I watched him almost sink his boat doing power turns. Well turns out he's an owner of a local business and those teenage girls are his "employees" with his wife and 2 daughters of course nowhere in sight.

[zabooda]

You should have taken pictures and posted them on Craigslist for escort services and called the wifey.

[jmvotto]

You could have said, " I get free dinners for life at Outback steak house, what came with that MC besides a big payment book"

[Sled491]

Earlier this spring my neighbour at the lake is ferrying a big group of people over to her place for a hot tub party. Keep in mind this is 2 in the morning. 3 of the girls are lets say not petite, and one guy is in his sleeping bag pulled over his head like a condom. One of the small girls decides to jump up front (Oh yeah this is a 14 ft Jon boat with a 10 hp motor and 10 people). At about the same time, wave comes over the front. The boat starts to go down like a submarine. My neighbour driving at the back of the boat ends up 5 ft in the air as the slim girls (again used loosely) all plow to the front. Boat goes down and all end up in early may Wisconsin water. I had to lift the boat out with my barge and crane later.

[.264 magnum]

Earlier this spring my neighbour at the lake is ferrying a big group of people over to her place for a hot tub party. Keep in mind this is 2 in the morning. 3 of the girls are lets say not petite, and one guy is in his sleeping bag pulled over his head like a condom. One of the small girls decides to jump up front (Oh yeah this is a 14 ft Jon boat with a 10 hp motor and 10 people). At about the same time, wave comes over the front. The boat starts to go down like a submarine. My neighbour driving at the back of the boat ends up 5 ft in the air as the slim girls (again used loosely) all plow to the front. Boat goes down and all end up in early may Wisconsin water. I had to lift the boat out with my barge and crane later.

Man that is not good.

[.264 magnum]

I've got two.

1. Lake Lewisville Texas at Pier 121 4 or 5 years ago. A lady comes pulling up to the old gas dock in a big Carver, 40+ ft., flying bridge, the works. At about 30 feet from the dock she is coming in hot but at this point it was still a salvageable situation, she's hot but her angle is pretty good. Things then go from squirrelly to scary as she decides to kill the engines. I'd say she crashed into the gas dock at 5 or 6 mph in what must have been a 25,000 pound boat maybe more. The boat was really screwed up, the kids working the gas dock thought their lives were over. Connected to the old gas dock was a walkway flanked by drive in boat slips for the restaurant which is just down from the old gas dock. It's 50/60 or so feet from the gas dock to the restaurant drinks food and all manner of stuff flew off off tables onto the floor. People were literally screaming.

2. Same lake earlier this year sixty feet from my slip. Set up, dude buys a 42' cruiser, part of the deal is that the selling dealership will pay for slippage for 6 mos. The dealer makes the boat delivery on an extremely bad weather day, slips the boat, delivers the keys to the owner's home, and promptly forgets to pay the marina for the slippage. A few days later the owner shows up - unties the boat - gets in - starts it up - feels the elation as the boat moves forward, about four feet and it stops. He gives it some more throttle nothing but noise, more throttle still more noise.
He thinks crap I missed a line so he kills it walks around the deck and sees no lines. He gets back in fires it up and gives it a lot of gas.

This is the point where I hear a lot of motor noise, fiberglass ripping and metal screeching. And the boat rises by the nose and then crashes down and leaps forward.

The marina had put a security cable in front of the boat. The owner, who I now know a little and is a really nice man, just flat out didn't see it. His insurance man said it cost $135K to fix all the damage.

[lancesaville]

well this doesn't count as the dumbest thing ever on the water- but it's the dumbest thing I've ever been asked on the water. I was anchored in a cove swimming with my family and neighbors yesterday when some middle aged dude with a bunch of teenage girls in a mastercraft X star comes up and starts giving me crap about my boat- he started asking stuff like "did that outback come with a free steak?" and "did you have to go to australia to get that boat, mate?" I'm pretty sure he was just being a jerk but I wasn't even sure what to say- then I watched him almost sink his boat doing power turns. Well turns out he's an owner of a local business and those teenage girls are his "employees" with his wife and 2 daughters of course nowhere in sight.

I would have given him the phrase that half of all x-star owners fear - "So let's see you wakeboard behind that x-star."

that or asked him to help me test the flare gun jk