Scary experience!

So Me and my dad went to cedar creek today and just got back. So we backed the boat down my driveway and we have a little "hump" at the end to hold thing like boats and trailers anyway the boat got backed up to the "hump" and i unhooked the tounge and started cranking up the wheel and as the hitch came off the ball the boat took a 90 degree turn instantly as one wheel went over the "hump" and hit me and swung me into a tree with the tree on one side the boat on the other and me in the middle, and at the end of our driveway is a steep grassy hill so i thought the boat was going over the hill with me under it but it caught the tree. So as my dad runs to help pull the boat off of me the other wheel goes over the hump and the boat roles back dragging me and my dad with it and is caught by some trees. So all in all a very scary experience and that boat will from now on always be chaucked by blocks from now on. But the weird think is, is that ive always pulled trailers and boats up to that "hump" and nothins ever happened so no more parking there.

So is there any scary runaway boat stories you all have or something similar????

I hate to say I can top that one, but I can. All I feel comfortable saying is that Andrew(apb) are lucky to be alive. Just wasn't our time.

Last summer the wife went out of town for a long weekend. I iced up a few cold beverages and got a nice thick stake. But, first I wanted to wash and wax my boat. I thought I would push it in the garage first. Well I was pushing real hard next thing I know I was looking up at the boat. Likely it did not roll forward or I would have been smashed.

When I tried to stand up my tailbone hurt real real bad. Went to the ER and had a broken sacrum. It is the flat spot on your hind end. Needless to say it hurt for a long time to come. I missed six weeks of work. It was hard to do anything because it seems everything is connected to your tail lol.

The worst part I did not even start to drink any coldies yet.

This happened while pulling out where I'm from in Idaho. I pulled up onto the trailer, climbed over the bow and winched up the last few inches. I was standing on the bumper holding on to the tailgate while my partner drove up the launch when the gate popped open and I got rolled up underneath the trailer. I was wearing a heavy PVC fishing parka so it wedged me under there like a cork. My buddy got the trailer off me but I cracked three ribs and ruined my parka.
I've stood on the bumper a hundred times before this but not since.

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So is there any scary runaway boat stories you all have or something similar????[/QUOTE]

My goof happened when I first bought my 20 foot pontoon in 1994. Brand new, only had it about 2 months. Boat sits in my driveway, wheels chocked. When you come up my rriveway, you turn 90 degrees to the left to enter the garage. So boat sat with its side facing the garage door. Before a fishing trip, I thought I'd just take the port wheel block out, then swing the tongue of the rig around to face the garage doors so I could use the outside garage lights while working on trolling motor wiring. I successfully swung the boat and trailer around facing the garage door, but in doing so the starboard wheel walked passed its wheel block, and the whole rig, with me clutching the tongue and dragging my butt and both feet to try to slow it down, started rolling off the driveway down a small bank that drops about 4 feet, and runs about 12 feet to the neighbors privacy fence. And thats what it did dragging me and swearing a blue streak as it rolled down the bank, then right thru the neighbors fence. Took an 8 foot section and its supporting 4X4 post and layed it flat, shearing the post. I grabbed the truck, backed up to the tongue and dragged the rig out of the neighbors yard, and OFF his fence. Only damage it did to the rig was to bend the cheapo aluminum prop. Neighbor had his dog out, and with the fence down it could have gotten away. So I just propped the fence up best I could. About 11 pm, the neighbor came home. I yelled to him as he parked in his garage, and met him at the propped up fence. Without so much as a grin, and with angry eyebrows and a growl, I announced, "Hey man, your fence ran over here and messed up my boat prop. I chased it off, and put a board up to keep it from coming over here again. So keep your darn fence at home, or you will be paying for my next prop!". The guy looked puzzled, hadn't known me more than 4 months, apologized quietly and walked back to his house. I almost passed out laughing as he closed his back door. I did explain the truth to him the next day, and did voluntarily get his fence fixed.

Lesson learned, when a 3200 pound boat, motor and trailer decides to take a nature walk.........run!

Several years ago I was hauling my boat I just bought from my uncle. While traveling down Lane Allen road in Lexington we hit a rough patch of road. Well as I say, I just bought it from my uncle who was with me and he had, at one time removed the chains for what ever reason. I did not yet have new chains, but that wasn't going to stop me from fishing.
Long story short the boat came off the ball and decided to drive itself up the shoulder right past our truck. We obviously knew it came undone and started slowing down and it stopped just to the right of us on the shoulder. After the adrenaline rush subsided we were hooked up and off again. We were soooooooooo lucky that no one got hurt, The trailer barely had scratches on the tongue and the only real damage was to our Fruit of the Looms. Come to find out, my idiot uncle said the ball receiver was 1-7/8 when it was really a 2". Needless to say, chains were added, the correct ball purchased and Thankful prayers made!!

[QUOTE=fishincreek;380909]I hate to say I can top that one, but I can. All I feel comfortable saying is that Andrew(apb) are lucky to be alive. Just wasn't our time.[/QUOTE]

OK how have I not heard this story yet, Andrew must not want to tell that one on you guys, lol.

If he tells ya the story you will see I was dead serious about it not being our time to go.

[QUOTE=fishincreek;381187]If he tells ya the story you will see I was dead serious about it not being our time to go.[/QUOTE]

This fall on our next trip I've got to hear this one for sure. I can't believe he hasn't told me this on one of those all nighter striper trips. You know when i't 4:30am and you've been at it since 11:pm and your trying to stay awake by telling humerous stories, you know what I mean, lol.