How did he do that?

That guy is lucky...although it's not the first time I have seen a Bayliner work real well as an anchor.

75, before he said "watch this" he said, "hold my beer".

Learned to barefoot in the 70's (late 70's) used the step off method as explained in a newspaper article we saw. Had all of 2 pictures. Took a whole summer and plenty of face plants behind an old Dorsey deep V- hull with a Johnson 135.   Just for clarification...the only speedo was attached to the boat not the butt.

This is how we roll in NorCal.......can't even make it to the ramp

This one doesn't look good either:

Wakeboardin2K4, I posted on another post someplace about this. If you're in FL. I would be happy to work with you on that.
Seriously, I wouldn't mind that at all. If not, get a hold of another footer and go with him. Buy a barefoot video from Lane Bowers or Ron Scarpa and the basics is pretty straight forward. Just follow the video and have a handle available to do some dryland while you watch it. I taught a 8 year girl to foot on the boom in about 1/2 and hour who had never skiied before. You would have no problems getting that far.

Hey 75Tique; Where do you live? You're in Sandwich, at the Sandwich Marina and the guy who put his truck into the drink lives on Popplebottom Road? Oh yeah, and the diver for the Sandwich FD says, "I believe the road conditions may have been slippery that morning". Doesn't he remember what the conditions were all of probably the hour or two it took to get to the scene? And if the road conditions may have been slippery, the ramp had to be downright unpa$$able I would a$$ume. Just rationalizing the article should completely explain the picture.

It looks like the fist picture is taken when the tow truck is pulling the trailer and truck out of the water. The ramp looks wide enough that when he backed in and slipped into the water, that the truck and trailer could have rotated enough to warrant pulling it out a$$ first.

But do trucks "float" when backed into the water ?

quinner wrote: gettin it from behind may have been the best option as well as the end result!

quinner, gettin it from behind is never the best option, but, in this case, was the end result



Something is still a little fishy with this story ... I suspect alcohol was involved

Wakeboardin,
Someone else asked that question back in Sept. 05 and I posted these simple instructions. These are back in the days when men were men, before booms and kneeboards and other such wussy training aids. Good luck. And if these don't help, I'll have Backfoot go out with you. I will just have him say..."do it and get it right...or else!!!"

75 Tique wrote: Oh, come on dchris, it's easy, just follow these simple to follow photo instructions. step 1: put your foot out Step 2: Simply step out of the ski (PS...Before I hear any cute remarks about pink Speedos... (1) it was the 70s and (2) I was a competitive swimmer (high school) and these were all any of us ever wore)

The position of the trailer is what makes me question the validity of the explanation.

Yeah after reading it a few times & thinking about it a bit i think it's definitely possible, the bed will fill up with water, & start to go down, but im sure it would be a little buoyant for a minute before it sank. but who knows i could be crazy(probably am).

Nate

Anybody else think this does not make sense? Bed fills with water and spins truck (AND trailer) around. Viveiros must be a rocket scientist on weekends.

Bogus

Larry- cool video! I am going to show it to my kids who will be learning come summer.

Backfoot- great pics! good to have you aboard.

I would still like to know how the guy in the original post ended up with his truck in the water like that!?

backfoot100 wrote: Now, I just threaten to take 'em out and teach them to barefoot.

haha that'd probably be even worse then the death grip & sharpening the knife for someone who's not used to being on the water... i can see it now "you're gonna go how fast? and i dont get any skis? and you want me to do whattt???" hahahahaha

Nate

haha, yeah thats pretty much my thoughts on it too wakeboardin2k4 haha. We were joking before that hollywood & i would keep all these old guys in line, but after seeing those pics... im pretty sure there won't be any problems, haha

Nate

Very nice Larry. Makes me kind of sad that I can't find the movies documenting my families history on the water. Should be fun for your kids to show their kids. BKH