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    Posted: July-23-2007 at 2:05pm
I have mentioned in another thread that I was at a wood boat show on Saturday At the show, I ended up having a real close call at the landing. Yes even wood boat owners who you would think should be up on their boatmanship can be real Wally's!! This taught me a real big lesson. When I got to the Marina next door to the show, the owner of a 22' Chris Craft had just launched, pulled his boat by hand out to the end of the pier and left plenty of room for me to launch my little Atom. I launched and tied off the Atom to the pier but then noticed that the Chris wasn't starting. I of coarse offered my help but the owner informed me that he had just rebuilt the entire engine including the carb and ignition system and that he was a "mechanic". Feeling the problem was in good hands, I pulled the trailer next door into the parking area (I was by myself at this show) and walked back to get the Atom. Just as I got around the marinas fence I looked over to the landing and watched the Chris's engine come to life throttle open and the trans in forward!! (regrettably old boats do not have neutral safety switches) My heart skipped several beats as I watched the boat run forward fairly fast.I was in luck because he had the helm hard to starboard so the Chris glanced off the metal rub rail on the rear spray rail of the Atom and then proceeded to hit the dock on the other side of the landing. The owner was then able to shut down the engine. He hadn't even tied off the boat properly - just a few wraps of his lines around the posts with no knots! Well the bottom line is all I have is some varnish and wood under one of the rub rail screws and have been reminded to never launch with a boat still at the landing pier. I could have ended up with a Chris Craft interior on a Correct Craft hull!!


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There is no escaping the Wally's Pete, your best bet is to avoid them when you can.

We had another Waverunner drive by this weekend. We were idling through a no wake zone and the guy came by and just completely drenched the entire boat, had to be about 10' from me. I can live with getting wet but sooner or later it's gonna be big, just hope it isn't with us.

Also had a guy almost eat my swim platform on the way home. Slowing to take a left turn, turn signals on, brake lights working, I look in the mirror and the guys 2 front tires are billowing out smoke trying to stop. I gunned it around the corner and he missed me but that was a close one. Got home to the pool and floated with a cold one, this boating stuff can be stresful.
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Pete, that makes me sick. especially after he says, "I don't need your help." Yikes.

p.s. I hate those wave runners. It's probably the biggest test of my maturity when something like that happens.
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Originally posted by The Dude The Dude wrote:


p.s. I hate those wave runners. It's probably the biggest test of my maturity when something like that happens.


Dude, it really wasn't my maturity as much as my wife saying,"Alan, Alan, Alan, sit down, Alan....." and once again the kids were in the boat. I'd rather let them see this clown make an ass out of himself than to open my mouth and remove any doubt they had about me.


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You should put a disclaimer on that post pete, it should be rated R for extreme horror content, not to be read lightly... if your heart might only skipped a couple beats your a stronger man that I, mine skips a couple beats when theres dirt on the bottom of the cooler someone is about to put in/on the boat.
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Yeah, we were out riding on my lake 2 weeks ago, my brother was driving my boat with one of our friends in the passenger seat & i was wakeboarding. This wally in his '80's beat to crap pontoon is cruising & we're about 40-50yds to the side of him, well he wanted to cut across the lake (probably to get to his cooler to work on his big ole gut) so instead of waiting literally maybe 20 seconds, he guns it & cuts right in front of us, probably about 50ft is all, then he decides, "nah, i think ill go back to where i started" & proceeds to cut back in front of us, my brother had to drop me to about 10 mph cuz the guy i think was probably about 20ft away this time. I of course gave him the salute & tried to convince my brother to drive by his dock & let me drop off there, but he's a little calmer then me. So once i got back into the boat (about 5 mins later b/c i was so pissed off) i pop in the driver seat & catch the guy going up his stairs looking like a damn weeble wobble, & let him know he should brush up on his boaters etiquette. Pretty much in those words, give or take a few...

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yes I have those days, if it were not for my wife there would be a few less wallys on our lake. I have not quite reached that maturity level that Allan spoke of. But when your pulling a skier and someone cuts right across the bow, and I mean right across the bow. They should be shot. Going to hurt someone one day.

I wont even start on waverunners.
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I had a guy last summer try to cut between the boat and the skier. The skier and everybody in our boat yelled at him, he corrected his course and then gave us the finger and drove away. What would you like to do to a guy like that?
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Pressurize the tubes and launch a torpedo.

I was on the lake once and there was only a couple of boats on an 8 mile lake. My friend was on the platform putting on his ski. I spotted a boat in the distance coming towards us on the same side of the lake. I said to my friends, 'that boat has to see us'. As he was getting closer, I saw his head looking right at us, I said again, 'he has to see us right?'. Since my friend was on the platform, the engine was off. He kept coming at us closer and closer, we started yelling. My other friend and I were considering which side of the boat we should bail out of, he had a barefoot boom coming off the side so we were afraid that we would get creamed by that. Finally about 20' off of our bow another head pops up from behind the one we were watching with a look of panic. He turned off and as he passed we noticed his kid was sitting in the open bow right in front of him and he was chatting with his wife who was laying on the engine cover. He never saw us, the only boat in the area until 20' off our bow. He looked scared but didn't say a word as he passed. No apology. Maybe because we were screaming and looked like we and ready to run across the water to rip his head off. We did find out where he lives on the lake and haven't run across him yet.

Moral of the story, even ski boats can have wallys driving them.
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Moron in a jet drive boat almost ran over my 12 year old tonight because he was driving while looking backward at his tuber. TONIGHT!
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Years ago I was in the boat with my dad while pulling a skier. This guy turned and went in between our boat and the skier.

My dad collected the skier and then went after the other boat, now stalled. He denied even coming close to our boat. When my dad asked him to raise his motor there was our rope wrapped around his prop.

And, yes waverunners are always a problem! In Missouri they are the number one cause of boating accidents. Who was it on this site that called them "water mosquitoes" or some such thing. No offense to those of you who operate them responsibly, but they can sure mess up a ski course in a hurry.

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"Between the boat and the skier"????? Wholly crap, I've never seen that one. That has the be the scariest thing ever... Yep, kids in the boat and everything, that guy/girl would have had a good beat down as soon as found em!!!

Stay safe out there peeps.... Wally's is to nice a word for them..

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We are on a private lake so you pretty much know everyone or at least who they are, with that as situations occur I always maintain my composure be it very difficult at times, the last time my rope was run over was by my very good friends wife in a Bu, although not exactly happy about it I was the one diving under their boat unwinding the mess, the very best kick ski I ever owned was completely obliterated by my neighbor the attorney who I now refer to as Mr. Magoo, we were the only 2 boats on the lake and he managed to hit it square on, neither of us said a word to the other, not even sure if he ever knew he hit it??

As Mojo said, be safe and have fun!!
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Q, my favorite part of that story is neither of you ever said a word about it. Ha! I have a friend who once pulled up at a urinal in a rest stop along a free way and looked over and there was his dad two stalls down. They lived 300 miles from each other. They both looked down, finished their business and went on down the road without ever saying a word to each other. It's so weird, it's hilarious!

Chuck, did your dad teach you a mature response that day? What a story!
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I remember when I was a little kid, the same guy ran our ski rope over 3 times in one day. Fortunately no one was on the other end, but that was how little he was paying attention to how and where he was driving his boat. I learned a very good response that day, and it has stuck with me ever since then. Much to my wife's dissaproval
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Dude,

My Dad was always calm, but this incident was an exception. He gave the guy a rather stern lesson on boating safety that I'm sure other boaters could also hear.

He also left the guy with the rope wrapped around his prop.

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Originally posted by quinner quinner wrote:

the last time my rope was run over was by my very good friends wife in a Bu, although not exactly happy about it I was the one diving under their boat unwinding the mess,


Chris, I read your post again after remembering you stating that you were the one who ended up having to dive and remove your OWN rope. I had thought to myself that there must have been a female involved!! Yup!! Thank god this time it wasn't a dog!!


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Glad I am not the only one. I was pulling a skier through the course and some guy came across the lake towing two knee boarders. He cut right through the 4 and 5 balls in my path. I had to stop. When I circled back to the skier this guy motored up to my boat, beer in hand, and started to cuss me out.

I cannot recall what happened but somehow that guy got the &#*$ beat out of him and nearly drowned. Slight flare up of PTSD.

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skibum, I am sure how ever it happened he deserved especially after swearing at you trying to make it your fault. Hard to believe some people can be that dumb.
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These are horrible stories...like watching the 10 o'clock news. I think we should not tell them. I can't get over how stupid people are out there. Perhaps our patience with them and cautious education of them will make a difference. However, it seems unlikely! I write this while realizing I almost went ballistic on a waver runner today who was running behind Mrs. Dude while she was skiing open water...
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The sad thing is that these are probably the same people we see doing stupid things behind the wheel of a car!


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Let's all remember to "Drive Fast and Take Chances" this weekend!!
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Originally posted by quinner quinner wrote:

Let's all remember to "Drive Fast and Take Chances" this weekend!!


Make sure you are pulling a overloaded trailer with no tongue weight, bad cross winds gusting, no trailer brakes, wheel bearings having a melt down and at least going 80MPH.


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Originally posted by quinner quinner wrote:

Let's all remember to "Drive Fast and Take Chances" this weekend!!


Make sure you are pulling a overloaded trailer with no tongue weight, bad cross winds gusting, no trailer brakes, wheel bearings having a melt down and at least going 80MPH.


Hey, sounds just like my crew coming back from GL, except we were running a little faster, and it was raining but that keeps the bearings cooler, and we have at least one break on all of our trailers. Can't wait to haul that camper back........
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Originally posted by SkiBum SkiBum wrote:

I cannot recall what happened but somehow that guy got the &#*$ beat out of him and nearly drowned. Slight flare up of PTSD.



Absolutely awesome!!... not soo much on the guy cutting in front of you, but more towards the end of the story hahaha...

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