Quote Originally Posted by gabowman View Post
Wow! How much did Russell drop on you in just a few hours?!?
Not sure but when I beached the boat the back was in about 10 inch deep water. I sat in the woods 5 hours and when it got too dark to see I headed out, got to the top of the ridge and could tell there was a problem when I saw the boat on dry ground. The water line was about three feet behind the boat. It's only a 16 ft alumacraft but with the extra quarter inch plate aluminum bottom two batteries gas motor and gear, close to 450 pounds at least. I had resigned myself to endure until the water came back up and decided to stay busy and work to exhaustion to help with getting some sleep. So I pushed and dug with my hands until too tired and then found a 10 inch diameter log that I used as a pry bar. Two and a half hours later she was floating and I'm still hurting. Too old to be making these memories.