I'm Worried Sick

[harryprocraft]

i think we all have lost or left something going ,coming or at the lake. my dumb move was i lost the cowl off my motor om my very 1st boat and even before that. the first time i took my 1st boat out could not get it to start after pulling the rope(tiller motor on a john boat) i put the boat back on trailer took it to a nearby marina the tech got about 10 feet from my boat and said he found my problem. i knew then it was stupid. he said do you see the arrow on the primer bulb i said yeah he said point it to the motor. switched it and started right up. see losing your seat ain't so bad!!!

[BubbaBass1]

i think we all have lost or left something going ,coming or at the lake. my dumb move was i lost the cowl off my motor om my very 1st boat and even before that. the first time i took my 1st boat out could not get it to start after pulling the rope(tiller motor on a john boat) i put the boat back on trailer took it to a nearby marina the tech got about 10 feet from my boat and said he found my problem. i knew then it was stupid. he said do you see the arrow on the primer bulb i said yeah he said point it to the motor. switched it and started right up. see losing your seat ain't so bad!!!

I remember the blisters you had on your hands after pulling on that dang rope.. We have all had those moment where we could just kick ourselves, but after reading a few of these post it just seems funny.

BB1

[smashdn]

Monday afternoon I ws driving from my house to my parents house so i could work on my boat motor in their garage. Got a little less than halfway and realize that I left the jug of lower unit oil I was supposed to be using. So I turned around at a church and headed back to the house. On the way home (on a highway) I see one of my life jackets go flying. I think I will just bust butt home, get my oil, and retrieve the life jacket as I pass by the second time. As I am nearing where it flew out I notice a car in the opposite lane (but still headed the direction I was going) backing up to my life jacket. If I was another thirty seconds it owuld have been gone. I just hopped out of the truck and chunked in the cab.

Yeah we have all lost stuff. One of my favorites was when my anchor rope was trailing 50 feet out behind the boat after the board that i keep it wrapped on flew out. Lost the board but it was just a chunk of wood with notches cut inthe ends.

[Wichita]

Saw my new minnow bucket blow out of the boat only to see the idiot behind me run over it. Never even tried to miss it and didn't stop!

[BEW]

So this makes me begin to think.....about what's the right thing. Because I've seen and/or witnessed similar things, and don't know what is 'right.' I remember once seeing a couple of life jackets along the road to the lake, a mile or more apart. I didn't see from which vehicle they came from - just that they matched, and surely came from the same guy. Does one leave them where they are, expecting that the poor soul will realize it and retrace steps? Or pick them up, and try to figure out how to put a 'generic' message about them out there? I chose to leave them hoping whoever lost them would go find them.

If you see it happen, hopefully you can signal the guy. But even that doesn't always work. Or someone just flies by you too fast...you cannot catch them or stop them.

It's a dilemma.

[dc chopper]

Took my new boat out for the maiden voyage 5 years ago, mind you my first boat I ever owned, and Bass Pro does not do a very good job in teaching when you pick it up. My wife had stored her purse in the back bait livewell (see where this is going) and I am flipping switches seeing what, how, and if things work. My front livewell will not fill up at all, I hear the pump running but no water coming in. Little did I know that the valve that lets the water in was turned off but the back bait livewell fills up nicely. Did you know that not only does a womans purse NOT FLOAT, but all contents inside which include cell phone, wallet, checkbook, pictures, pictures, pictures, pictures, did I mention pictures, makeup, pictures, pictures, did I mention pictures, and everything else a woman carries around in her purse, IS NOT WATERPROOF. Not to mention it takes up a lot of floor space in the living room after you get home to attempt to dry out these items. It was a win win situation, I got to find out which switch turns on the bait livewell plus how to turn off the valves as to not do this again, and she got a new purse, cell phone, wallet, all new makeup, and no telling what else we had to buy to replace. The guy at the Bass Pro did say the day I picked up my boat "one of the 2 happiest days in a mans life, the day he buys his boat and the day he sells his boat, for all the time in the middle is just sinking money into the dead sea" Not a more true statement made, and my sinking started on the maiden voyage and has yet to slow down.

That was great. I had a lifejacket blow out while sitting fishing at T-ville last year, no big deal right? 30 mph winds that can be expected well, I had left the kill switch hooked to it when I took the jacket off and it took it too. trolled down the lake to get the jacket, didn't think nothing about the kill switch then wondered for about 5 minutes why the boat wouldn't start. My old man thought it was the greatest thing he had ever seen.