Thread: Epic Failure

Years ago I saw it happen to a gewber with a brand new Four Winns ski boat at the high water ramp at Techville on Sardis. With his wife at the console he backed it in the water. She cranked it, put it in reverse, and was just poring the gas to it. Nothing. He pulled to the top of the ramp with the boat still on the trailer, got out and looked at it. You could see the lightbulb go off. He walked over and unhooked the winch. His miscalculation was that his brand new, just got wet for the first time, Four Winns was sitting on a roller bunk trailer. While he was still congratulating himself for figuring out the winch delima, the boat promptly rolled off the trailer, slammed onto the concrete ramp, and skidded 100' down to the water. Darn near threw his wife out when it went kersplash.

Oh me .

Wow! ES that really sucks! Hope ya get everything fixed up on her soon.

I've seen people that can't back a trailer or load a boat and some just do some down right silly stuff on the ramp. Just last week I watched a guy put in by himself with the long rope method. Ya know, back it in with a rope tied to trailer and boat. Problem was he didn't have it tied to his boat. The rope was just coiled up on the front deck. He launches and away goes the boat, and away, and away, and away. Had to laugh... kinda, I was the next to launch and had to wait on the gewber I must admit, never seen anyone dump one on the ramp though!

Maybe we will have a co-gewber of the year.

I am thinking we may need a run off on this one....ES pulled a pretty darn good one there.

Originally Posted by tritonman

I am thinking we may need a run off on this one....ES pulled a pretty darn good one there.

"pretty darn good one" don't even begin to cover it.

true Maj! I was trying to take it easy on the boy.

Its happened to a few of my buddies. Most of the happenings were during the winter when their runners were frozen... Not the first time it's happened and sure won't be the last. I did with a smaller boat duck hunting several years back....

Again, I'm real sorry this happened to you, or anybody for that matter. Thanks for sharing it with us, may prevent it happening to some of us, excluding WB of course,,
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