How did he do that?
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Topic: How did he do that?
Posted By: 75 Tique
Subject: How did he do that?
Date Posted: January-03-2007 at 8:20am
Picture in my local newspaper last week. Anyone want to venture a guess as to how he got in this position.
 ------------- _____________ “So, how was your weekend?” “Well, let me see…sun burn, stiff neck, screwed up back, assorted aches and pains….yup, my weekend was great, thanks for asking.” |
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Posted By: nates78ski
Date Posted: January-03-2007 at 9:41am
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haha, now that's just the completely wrong way to launch boat!!
Nate ------------- Nathan http://correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1463&sort=&pagenum=3&yrstart=1978&yrend=1978" rel="nofollow - My '78 Ski Nautique <a href="http://photobucket.com/Nates78ski" rel="nofoll |
Posted By: PLBC
Date Posted: January-03-2007 at 10:15am
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Where is the boat? (if he was actually "trying to launch it)
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Posted By: skicat
Date Posted: January-03-2007 at 10:37am
My guess is he had been out drinking with the PLBC group & didn't know which end was up!  ------------- Greg http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=2427&yrstart=1981&yrend=1985" rel="nofollow - 86 BFN |
Posted By: nates78ski
Date Posted: January-03-2007 at 10:40am
or from what I've heard "Trying to keep up drinking with the PLBC group" haha Nate ------------- Nathan http://correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1463&sort=&pagenum=3&yrstart=1978&yrend=1978" rel="nofollow - My '78 Ski Nautique <a href="http://photobucket.com/Nates78ski" rel="nofoll |
skicat wrote:Posted By: Hollywood
Date Posted: January-03-2007 at 10:41am
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My guess, lauched a dead boat and went to jump it. ------------- |
Posted By: 75 Tique
Date Posted: January-03-2007 at 10:51am
Friend to Driver: "come on, just a little bit more...you're almost there" ------------- _____________ “So, how was your weekend?” “Well, let me see…sun burn, stiff neck, screwed up back, assorted aches and pains….yup, my weekend was great, thanks for asking.” |
Posted By: quinner
Date Posted: January-03-2007 at 11:12am
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Actually he owned a boat other than a CC, launched it and of course it wouldn't start, turned the truck around to jump the boat, pulling down the ramp realized he forgot to tie the boat off and it was floating away, jumped out of the truck to catch the boat forgeting to set brake, splash.
Worst part, the cooler was in the back of the truck and floated down river! ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1143" rel="nofollow - Mi Bowt |
Posted By: eric lavine
Date Posted: January-03-2007 at 1:01pm
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thats like the guy who let his wife launch the boat with the trailer still hooked to the boat, thay couldnt figure out why it was only going 5 mph, she apparently unhooked from the truck ------------- "the things you own will start to own you" |
Posted By: MaddMarxx
Date Posted: January-03-2007 at 5:53pm
| Maybe his truck is reverse rotation.. |
Posted By: SkiBum
Date Posted: January-03-2007 at 6:12pm
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GRAVITY ------------- Bill http://www.freewebs.com/billsboatworks - http://www.freewebs.com/billsboatworks www.freewebs.com/billsboatworks 1987 SN Rebuild Project |
Posted By: backfoot100
Date Posted: January-08-2007 at 11:12am
| Man, I'm telling you the best fun I ever had was just sitting at a really busy public launch watching some clown try to load a boat. Launching was never much of problem. I watched one guy run his brand new Sea Ray right through the trailor into the backend of his Suburban. Another guy had a Bayliner with a roller trailor that he never hooked the winch or safety chain to and when he pulled out the boat rolled right off the trailor onto the concrete launch. It's really big fun!!! Can you say Weekend Wally inebriated boat owner? |
Posted By: nates78ski
Date Posted: January-08-2007 at 12:37pm
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Backfoot100, haha man i know exatly what you're talking about, I live about a block from a local marina and before we got our cottage 4 years ago when we were home on the 4th of july, our family would drive down to the boat launch around 10pm after the fireworks were done and watch all the drunk/incompetent boaters attempt to load their boats... Priceless!!!
Nate ------------- Nathan http://correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1463&sort=&pagenum=3&yrstart=1978&yrend=1978" rel="nofollow - My '78 Ski Nautique <a href="http://photobucket.com/Nates78ski" rel="nofoll |
Posted By: backfoot100
Date Posted: January-08-2007 at 2:56pm
| Nate, I hear you buddy! There doesn't even have to be alcohol involved. A couple of weeks ago, my daughter and I waited on the water almost half an hour watching some goof and his son trying to load some little 16' fishing boat of some kind with a 50HP outboard. Both of them ended up with wet feet and shoes and in a screaming match. They had to back in the trailor a little farther; then it was too far; then it was crooked and they had to start all over. It was just hilarious. I know that they had to hear us laughing while we were sitting 100' off the launch watching this. After they were finally done and pulled off to the side cleaning up the mess, my daughter pulls up and drops me off at the dock, I get the trailor backed into the water and she does the sweetest little drive-on and we're on the launch for a total of maybe a minute or two and as we're pulling out, my daughter is nice enough to give them her prettiest smile and a wave. Now mind you, she's 24 years old, 5'1" and all of 110lbs. still in her bikini loading this 300HP 19' demon that has been screaming back and forth across the lake for the last couple of hours. The guy and his son were both just standing there with their mouths hanging open. Priceless. Where is a video camera when you want it? |
Posted By: Hollywood
Date Posted: January-08-2007 at 2:58pm
You might not have wanted to leak that valuable information around here...  ------------- |
Posted By: 75 Tique
Date Posted: January-08-2007 at 4:04pm
Eddie, Trust and take that advice. Most of the guys around here have much in common including their list of favorite things. The list pretty much goes: 1. Smokin' hot wife and kids (if applicable) 2. Their Correct Craft(s) (some might claim that I have those in the wrong order, but if you read between the lines of their posts, you know that I have it right) 3. Sweet young things. ------------- _____________ “So, how was your weekend?” “Well, let me see…sun burn, stiff neck, screwed up back, assorted aches and pains….yup, my weekend was great, thanks for asking.” |
Posted By: backfoot100
Date Posted: January-08-2007 at 6:50pm
| You guys crack me up!!! |
Posted By: reidp
Date Posted: January-08-2007 at 8:18pm
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Since no one can see the embarra$$ment on my face as I type, I confess that a handful of years ago, I did the almost the same thing that Backfoot100 witnessed with the Bayliner. It's late in the evening, I've partaken enought to have made quinner and Hollywood proud. My buddy and also Mustang owner is attempting to pull me in our blue '69 Must up the ramp at our place and as he tops the crest of the short ramp he stalls and then takes off again and the little CC slips right off the bunks. We're not completely out of the water but the rudder still makes contact with the concrete and it floats on out. I screamed like a school girl, but then regained my composure, asked that he please not stop and start this time, but by now the trailer bunks are really wet, and guess what.......? I hooked it the third time. Please don't judge me by this temporary but repeated lapse in judgement.
Then there was the time when there wasn't a single tow vehicle available in the yard at the time and we wanted to drop in the boat. Einstein here a$$umes that our Cub Cadet will put a 1600 lb boat in the water no problem. I quickly drilled out the hole in the tractor so it'd accept the trailer ball and took off. Pulled w/no problem, backed it down the ramp but had to chock the tractor tire, as there wasn't enough tractor a$$. While I'm unhooking it the block/rock slides out and here comes the tractor backwards down the ramp with me trying to stop it. Well it stopped only after the boat floated up and after the tire put one huge strawberry on my calf. But the tractor wasn't completely submerged and we pushed and then drove it out. Only did that once. Years back we lived in Southeast Fla (Pompano Bch)and were regulars at the public ramp. Like Backfoot and his daughter, my wife and I made quite the boat loading team with our center console outboard, as I'd drop her off and she'd back it in just perfect and we'd be off in a flash almost everytime to the amazement of bystanders........except for this one time in Key Largo in the Fla Keys. The ramp wasn't level and no matter what we/she did, we couldn't pull out with the boat level. After at least a dozen tries, and me growing frustrated and NOT at her valent efforts, we finally managed to come up the ramp somewhat straight. Well, this ramp is overlooked by the bar deck not 10 feet away and we had ama$$ed quite an audience of inebriated afternoon onlookers who felt naturally compelled to applaud when we finally succeeded. I raised my arms in victory while Laurie thought they were poking fun at her and with tears in her eyes swore she would never do this again. And this was with a straight drive truck. Remember that thread about why some guys are happy being married.......and esp to a girl who loves boats. ------------- ReidP /diaries/details.asp?ID=231&yrstart=1971&yrend=1975 - 1973 Mustang |
Posted By: nates78ski
Date Posted: January-08-2007 at 10:20pm
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Backfoot, where are you @ and can i meet your daughter. You already know I'm a good guy, i've got a CC... right?
Nate ------------- Nathan http://correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1463&sort=&pagenum=3&yrstart=1978&yrend=1978" rel="nofollow - My '78 Ski Nautique <a href="http://photobucket.com/Nates78ski" rel="nofoll |
Posted By: quinner
Date Posted: January-09-2007 at 9:53am
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Reid,
I would guess many of us have had an incident or two at the launch. Coming off the river one day with my 80' I am on the trailer, Brownie in the boat, he approaches the trailer a little hot and stands up to grab the guide post, as he leans out the boat he hits the throttle and the boat launches up on top of the trailer wheel cover, luckily he had the rudder turned or he would have come thru the back window of my truck. Lot's of applause on that one! ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1143" rel="nofollow - Mi Bowt |
Posted By: backfoot100
Date Posted: January-09-2007 at 3:25pm
| Guys, I'd let you meet her but I'm afraid that she just might kick your a$$! She was barefootin' when she was 12. Is an awesome slalom skier and is getting to be a pretty good wakeboarder. She's also a pretty good boat driver but she's now traveling the country on her way to CA. I might have to dig up a pic to post for you. I'm pretty proud of her. |
Posted By: Hollywood
Date Posted: January-09-2007 at 4:46pm
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Sounds sa$$y, I like an attitude. Nate and I will be awaiting some visuals, if any of these old guys around here get fresh we'll take care of it.
I definitely need some slalom/barefoot lessons. ------------- |
Posted By: todicus
Date Posted: January-09-2007 at 5:42pm
24, single, barefoot's...........sounds like Hollywoods perfect match. No wonder he is so twitterpated right now !  ------------- Living outside the wake http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1525 - 95GT-40SNOB |
Posted By: nates78ski
Date Posted: January-09-2007 at 6:18pm
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ill be anxiously awaiting the pictures.... haha & good call hollywood, lets try & keep some of these old pervs. in line.... haha JK boys... kinda
Nate ------------- Nathan http://correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1463&sort=&pagenum=3&yrstart=1978&yrend=1978" rel="nofollow - My '78 Ski Nautique <a href="http://photobucket.com/Nates78ski" rel="nofoll |
Posted By: backfoot100
Date Posted: January-09-2007 at 9:46pm
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OK guys, here's a few shots of my little girl!!!!
Front footin' 
Backfootin' 
Slalom 
Wakesurfing 
Wakeboarding 
Relaxing after a set! I thought this was a cool shot in-between the wakeboard boots. 
Some instruction from dear old Dad. 
Oh yeah, and I do a little footin' too (amoung other things). 
Sorry, got carried away. Obviously very proud of her like I said earlier!!!!! |
Posted By: bkhallpass
Date Posted: January-09-2007 at 10:36pm
I'd be careful Hollywood and Nate. Looking at backfoot, I think he could take you out BKH------------- Livin' the Dream |
Posted By: 75 Tique
Date Posted: January-09-2007 at 11:01pm
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Yea Brian, I'd say she looks pretty safe. Backfoot, some pretty impressive shots of you and your little girl. Very nice. ------------- _____________ “So, how was your weekend?” “Well, let me see…sun burn, stiff neck, screwed up back, assorted aches and pains….yup, my weekend was great, thanks for asking.” |
Posted By: skicat
Date Posted: January-10-2007 at 7:29am
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I have to agree with BKH & 75. Looks like dad can take care of you young pervs as well! Great pics backfoot. ------------- Greg http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=2427&yrstart=1981&yrend=1985" rel="nofollow - 86 BFN |
Posted By: quinner
Date Posted: January-10-2007 at 8:45am
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Backfoot those are some really great photo's, thanks for sharing! My daughter is only 7, I hope she gets the boating/skiing bug as I did, she is still a little shy of the water right now, have not got her past the trainers yet.
Great looking kid, and yes she does look like she could take care of herself, if Hollywood got smart with her I am bettin he would end up with that neck brace on!! ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1143" rel="nofollow - Mi Bowt |
Posted By: NAUTI84
Date Posted: January-10-2007 at 10:28am
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Backfoot,
Excellent pics! If my girls get into it like that, I'll have pics like that as big as posters on my office wall. (Well, I've already got a few good size hockey action shots of my little one!) Very cool. I can see why your proud of her. ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=421&yrstart=1981&yrend=1985 - EX-NAUTI84 |
Posted By: backfoot100
Date Posted: January-10-2007 at 10:34am
| Hey Quinner, I hope that your daughter does turn out to get the skiing/boating bug. I've had some wonderful times with her that I'll cherish until the day they put me down for a dirt nap. My older daughter we taught to ski when she was 8 I think. We couldn't keep her off the water. The next year she went out for one run around the lake and hasn't put on a ski since. She's going on 26. She said that she was afraid of falling and completely lost all interest. She still enjoys boating but nothing like our younger one. You certainly can't force them or push them to do it. They have to want to do it and I hope that you get to experience that joy. It's an incredible bond that you get to share when that happens. It was a bond that definitely brought us much closer and we have had way too many laughs and memories for anything to tear that apart. I just think about the family time that we've been able to share and the memories that have been created just because we have that boat!!! How cool is that???? |
Posted By: Hollywood
Date Posted: January-10-2007 at 12:02pm
After having to look that up,
Backfoot, carry away! What's with the knee brace on the right in the surfing pic, but on the left in the rest? Trickery photography? ------------- |
Posted By: todicus
Date Posted: January-10-2007 at 12:39pm
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Great pic's !! you all look in great shape....... I commend your family gene pool !! ------------- Living outside the wake http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1525 - 95GT-40SNOB |
Posted By: backfoot100
Date Posted: January-10-2007 at 1:50pm
| OOOOHHHHH, Hollywood, good catch of the knee brace. I was wondering if anyone would catch that. She tweaked an MCL a little bit last summer on her left knee wakeboarding. When she wakesurfs, she has to lay on the board on her belly and get to her hands and knees and then she has a weird twisting motion of her right leg to get to her feet. So she put the brace on her right knee just for that. She's so small and the board is big enough that she can't lay in the water with her heels on the board and flip it up as you start moving with the boat and come right up to a standing position. So this is her alternative. |
Posted By: 75 Tique
Date Posted: January-14-2007 at 9:04pm
Backfoots thoughts got me to thinking about the times I have had with my family on the water. Led me to put this montage together, which I thought I would share with you. Be for-warned...its almost six minutes long...but it does have ten years crammed into it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFzX5W16wZc - 75 Tique's Kids Edit: YouTube deleted the sound track from the video, you can see it with music, plus other videos on the Kayuta link below. ------------- _____________ “So, how was your weekend?” “Well, let me see…sun burn, stiff neck, screwed up back, assorted aches and pains….yup, my weekend was great, thanks for asking.” |
Posted By: jbear
Date Posted: January-14-2007 at 9:30pm
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Larry: Had just gotten off the phone from my usual Sunday chat with my son. Lives in Morristown, Tennessee and is now 36. Then I got on the site and found your post so I went to the link. Thanks for sharing. Only cried thru about 4.5 minutes of it. Made me remember why we do what we do. Thanks again for sharing and waking up some memories.
john ------------- "Loud pipes save lives" AdamT sez "I'm Canadian and a beaver lover myself"... |
Posted By: bkhallpass
Date Posted: January-14-2007 at 10:23pm
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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 ------------- Livin' the Dream |
Posted By: wakeboardin2k4
Date Posted: January-15-2007 at 12:19am
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backfoot, thats really cool that your daughter is so involved in the sport.
Hollywood and nate- Backfoot seems like a nice guy, but if I went to a girls house to meet her family for the first time and backfoot was standing there. I would politely shake his hand and proceed to crap my pants in fear. |
Posted By: nates78ski
Date Posted: January-15-2007 at 1:24am
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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 ------------- Nathan http://correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1463&sort=&pagenum=3&yrstart=1978&yrend=1978" rel="nofollow - My '78 Ski Nautique <a href="http://photobucket.com/Nates78ski" rel="nofoll |
Posted By: backfoot100
Date Posted: January-15-2007 at 11:58am
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Larry, that video was awesome. We have hours and hours of video and pictures that document our family's skiing/boating history. They really do bring back a lot of memories. It really is fun to watch when everybody is home to enjoy it. It will be even more fun to show when our girls have their own families.
Wakeboardin2k4 and Nate, I just had to LOL at your comments. I used to really give the boys a hard time the first time I would meet them when my girls were in high school. I would sit on the front porch sharpening my hunting knife when they came to pick one up for a date. Then when I shook their hand, I would give 'em the death grip until they almost had tears in their eyes. It was big fun. Never had a problem with any of 'em either, and when I said they had to be home by midnight, they were ALWAYS early. Go figure. I've mellowed quite a bit since then. Mrs. Backfoot threatened to leave if kept doing that. Now, I just threaten to take 'em out and teach them to barefoot. |
Posted By: nates78ski
Date Posted: January-15-2007 at 12:55pm
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 ------------- Nathan http://correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1463&sort=&pagenum=3&yrstart=1978&yrend=1978" rel="nofollow - My '78 Ski Nautique <a href="http://photobucket.com/Nates78ski" rel="nofoll |
Posted By: Root
Date Posted: January-15-2007 at 1:05pm
That is a real cool video 75, liked the way it shows their learning progress and them growing up and everyone with a  having a good time------------- RootRacing |
Posted By: Randy_in_Ohio
Date Posted: January-17-2007 at 1:46pm
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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!? ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1602&yrstart=1991&yrend=1995" rel="nofollow - 1993 Sport Nautique |
Posted By: 75 Tique
Date Posted: January-17-2007 at 2:07pm
Wow, that thread really digressed didn't it. However, Backfoot and his daughter were well worth it distractions. Any way, as Paul Harvey would say, here is the rest of the story. Although the article still doesn't clear things up too much. Not sure how a bed full of water would spin the truck around. But if anyone is going to be declared a winner, I guess it would be Skibum who simply responded "GRAVITY". And since that explanation appears in the article, Skibum wins.  ------------- _____________ “So, how was your weekend?” “Well, let me see…sun burn, stiff neck, screwed up back, assorted aches and pains….yup, my weekend was great, thanks for asking.” |
Posted By: PLBC
Date Posted: January-17-2007 at 2:21pm
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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 ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=5164&sort=&pagenum=1" rel="nofollow - 99 |
Posted By: quinner
Date Posted: January-17-2007 at 7:11pm
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It could have floated for a bit and possibly spun some with currents or what not, gettin it from behind may have been the best option as well as the end result!
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Posted By: nates78ski
Date Posted: January-17-2007 at 10:54pm
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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 ------------- Nathan http://correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1463&sort=&pagenum=3&yrstart=1978&yrend=1978" rel="nofollow - My '78 Ski Nautique <a href="http://photobucket.com/Nates78ski" rel="nofoll |
Posted By: p/allen
Date Posted: January-17-2007 at 11:39pm
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Dont ya think that when the truck started sliding and the driver was making the tires spin that his first reaction would be to step on the brakes and lock up the front end ? I dont think the ramp would be that slippery that high up out of the water. DUH!!!! ------------- Pat http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w146/72ccfan/100_5977-1.jpg - My 72 Skier Rock River Dixon,ILL. |
Posted By: PLBC
Date Posted: January-18-2007 at 10:06am
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The position of the trailer is what makes me question the validity of the explanation. ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=5164&sort=&pagenum=1" rel="nofollow - 99 |
Posted By: wakeboardin2k4
Date Posted: January-18-2007 at 10:23am
I can't even imagin being one of those guys. I don't think you would even need to show them knives. Just mention how much you bench press and that would be enough to get any guy to shut up and behave like a gentleman. On another note...how hard is it to learn to barefoot? I have been skiing for over 10 years and I ski the course at 22 off, what should be my next step to learning to barefoot? |
Posted By: 75 Tique
Date Posted: January-18-2007 at 10:59am
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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!!!"
------------- _____________ “So, how was your weekend?” “Well, let me see…sun burn, stiff neck, screwed up back, assorted aches and pains….yup, my weekend was great, thanks for asking.” |
Posted By: quinner
Date Posted: January-18-2007 at 11:28am
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Larry,
Those are Perfect instructions!! Pretty much the way I learned except with cut-off shorts and a ski belt. At about 12-13yrs old (also in the 70's) we just dropped the hammer on the Tri-Hull and stepped off the ski, we all got it eventually! ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1143" rel="nofollow - Mi Bowt |
Posted By: Randy_in_Ohio
Date Posted: January-18-2007 at 11:46am
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 ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1602&yrstart=1991&yrend=1995" rel="nofollow - 1993 Sport Nautique |
Posted By: Hollywood
Date Posted: January-18-2007 at 12:15pm
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Randy, how did I miss that. New sig! ------------- |
Posted By: todicus
Date Posted: January-18-2007 at 12:17pm
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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$$ first.
But do trucks "float" when backed into the water ? ------------- Living outside the wake http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1525 - 95GT-40SNOB |
Posted By: quinner
Date Posted: January-18-2007 at 2:07pm
I was wondering if anyone was going to catch that one, man you guy's are a bunch of slackers, McFly!! Hollywood, BTW, I did crank it back and forth several times again last week! ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1143" rel="nofollow - Mi Bowt |
Posted By: backfoot100
Date Posted: January-18-2007 at 4:24pm
Wakeboardin2K4, I posted on another post someplace about this. If you're in FL. I would be happy to work with you on that. 
Seriously, I wouldn't mind that at all. If not, get a hold of another footer and go with him. Buy a barefoot video from Lane Bowers or Ron Scarpa and the basics is pretty straight forward. Just follow the video and have a handle available to do some dryland while you watch it. I taught a 8 year girl to foot on the boom in about 1/2 and hour who had never skiied before. You would have no problems getting that far. Hey 75Tique; Where do you live? You're in Sandwich, at the Sandwich Marina and the guy who put his truck into the drink lives on Popplebottom Road? Oh yeah, and the diver for the Sandwich FD says, "I believe the road conditions may have been slippery that morning". Doesn't he remember what the conditions were all of probably the hour or two it took to get to the scene? And if the road conditions may have been slippery, the ramp had to be downright unpa$$able I would a$$ume. Just rationalizing the article should completely explain the picture. 
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Posted By: SeattleFordFan
Date Posted: January-18-2007 at 4:49pm
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Does it matter how slippery it was, or that the truck was pulled out backwards? What really matters is while he was waiting for the police, and tow truck and what not to get there, did he do some skiing or wakeboarding? I cant imagine he is going to sit there, waiting on state employees, and not take advantage of a couple runs. ------------- Travs Where there is a will, there is a way, and where there is a way, it usually costs more money. 1980 Ski Nautique |
Posted By: NAUTI84
Date Posted: January-19-2007 at 10:30am
This one doesn't look good either:
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Posted By: NAUTI84
Date Posted: January-19-2007 at 10:34am
Or this one :
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Posted By: todicus
Date Posted: January-19-2007 at 11:38am
This is how we roll in NorCal.......can't even make it to the ramp
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Posted By: 75 Tique
Date Posted: January-19-2007 at 12:10pm
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Maybe it wasn't an accident. Maybe it was some honcho dude in his tough new 4x4 pickup saying...."Ramp, I don't need no stinking ramp. Watch this."
Nice to see that safety chains work, even if this isn't exactly what people had in mind for them. Bet the guy in the truck is counting his blessings on that. ------------- _____________ “So, how was your weekend?” “Well, let me see…sun burn, stiff neck, screwed up back, assorted aches and pains….yup, my weekend was great, thanks for asking.” |
Posted By: Darrel
Date Posted: January-19-2007 at 1:45pm
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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. |
Posted By: Behl
Date Posted: January-19-2007 at 2:30pm
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The guy is still looking out the window trying to find the ramp.
Sure is a steep ramp ------------- Steve in Indy http://correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1702&sort=&pagenum=1&yrstart=1976&yrend=1980" rel="nofollow - Redone 1977 Ski Tique |
Posted By: 69 Mustang
Date Posted: January-20-2007 at 2:05am
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That guy is lucky...although it's not the first time I have seen a Bayliner work real well as an anchor. ------------- For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. "Where the **** are we?" Amelia Earhart. July 2, 1937 |