Heres your sign ...

[bow_vol]

I tell you what - there needs to be some type of basic training for boat ownership and some folks need to have their boat keys taken away.

Put in at Wolftever and got back to the ramp just after dark. Two of the most oblivious folks I've seen in a while were trying to put their ski boat on the trailer. The wife backed the trailer in - and I mean all the way in - you couldn't even see the winch and the water was over the back bumper of the truck. Her husband / boyfriend / whatever in the boat - was screaming at her in Spanish and she was yelling out the window back at him. Of course they were at an angle right in the middle of the ramp with the lights on bright making it almost impossible to squeeze my trailer in what little room they left. They finally got it mostly on the trailer and pulled it just barely out of the water and the man in the boat hopped out and started fiddling with the drain plug under the boat - and I noticed the woman in the truck had it in gear (in reverse of course - back up lights and all) and was gabbing away on her cell phone while he was under the boat and in knee deep water.

Finally got mine on the trailer and away from the circus. I didn't see them put any trailer tie-downs on and it looked like as soon as he got done fiddling under the boat - they took off down 58.

As Bill Engvall says - "Heeeere's your sign !!!!"

 

[BackOnTheWater]

There always seems to be fun at the old boat ramp. It is difficult to put in or load out these days without having to deal with certified "sign wearers". A good laugh, most days!emoLaugh

 

[Fat Albert]

<font color="#ff0033">If ya want some free entertainment, just take ya a lawn chair place it kinda out of the way and watch the boating ramp.....what ya see and the stuff that goes on there is something to see..... and yes, you can give away lots of "HERE'S YOUR SIGN".   

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[Flippen*1]

And Soddy is the best place to go, total bedlam on a hot Saturday afternoon. Right Al?

 

[Fat Albert]

Flippen*1 - 6/27/2007 10:17 AM And Soddy is the best place to go, total bedlam on a hot Saturday afternoon. Right Al?

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<font color="#6600ff">Yes, but it is more fun to do it at Chester Frost, best time is just after the lake has come up to full pool... Ya can't fix stupid.</font></p>

 

[fishinfeller11]

well, i would like to say here's your sign, but i really cant- reason being is that when my dad and i tried to put our boat back the first time we took it out, the seen was just about as ugly-- it was quite a spectacle to see i can tell you that much emoTongue

 

[hl&s]

I can't say much either. Just last week I pulled my boat up the ramp with the motor all the way down, scraping asphalt of course. Another boater yelled or I might have really done some damage.emoRedface

 

[Carl Guffey]

The ones I love are the wife/girlfriend standing on the ramp with a limp rope, and the boat turned 90 degrees to the waters edge. Anybody can learn to run a trolling motor and /or back a trailer. If learning to back a trailer, don't learn at the ramp. Walmart has huge parking areas, so late at night take a few trash cans and teach your signifcate other to back and park, trips to and from the lake will be so much more fun.....

 

[Buoy-Master]

Carl...thats gonna really look funny when I have to put garbage cans on each side of the ramp!

 

[THutch]

On topic, does anyone know what occured at the TVA pump storage ramp on Sat. the 16th. It was the last day of riverbend so their where an unusally high number of sign wearers out. I drove past the ramp about 5PM and saw an enormous wrecker sitting cock-eyed on the ramp. It looked to be hooked up to a boat resting partially on a trailer attached to a SUV sitting crooked as well. ?????? I'm sure something was ruined in addition to the owners afternoon.

 

[Andrew]

BackOnTheWater - 6/26/2007 7:31 AM

There always seems to be fun at the old boat ramp. It is difficult to put in or load out these days without having to deal with certified "sign wearers". A good laugh, most days!emoLaugh

That was taken at WT right? looks like the one i posted on here not long ago. My buddy had just got his boat out of the water and saw that happen and they took some pics. He jumped in that jeep long it was rolling down the ramp and tried to see if it was in gear. Said it was in gear and the brake was on. Almost ran over the little girl that was trying to get in the jeep but her grandpa jerked her out of the way.

 

[BackOnTheWater]

Yup, that's the one. I was the last boat out before they wenched the Cherokee out. Was that you on the ramp when I came in? If so, you might have seen me hit the trailer with my TM down, bending my shaft...I was obviously distracted by the hoop-la.

Here's MY sign.emoBang emoBigsmile emoGeezer

 

[DoubleB]

Sometimes even the Pros have trouble

 

[hl&s]

emoUpsmile

If anyone can cause a malfunction, Bill Dance can ! His blooper dvd is hilarious.

I read Rick Clunn fished a tx once and had his wife to pull the trailer out of the water after he launched. Unfortunately, He forgot to unhook the strap. The wife was in the diesel pick up with the windows up heading to the parking area and could not hear his screams as his boat was being pulled up the concrete ramp. All of this in plain view of the other pro's. Several guys helped get the boat back in the water and although it sustained hull damage, Rick went on to win the tx that day.

 

[digitalcb]

Here's me about 15 years ago in Placida Florida. There was a concrete ramp but I dropped a wheel off and was sitting on the axle. The tow truck got me out before the tide got much higher.

 

[Carl Guffey]

The trash can thing really works. Note: use the large thin metal ones, they make a bunch of noise and with little or no damage. Makes drivers aware of turning radius and defines depth preception. Also placing a cover over the in car rear view, makes the driver use exterior lens and keeps them from depending on a piece of equipment that is totally useless.

 

[Triton4Bass]

I was at CFSP last weekend waiting to put my boat in the water around 6:30pm or so ... a guy with a cruiser was in the middle of the ramp with his truck backed in a little too far. I guess he couldnt figure out that if he pulled up about 2 ft. that everything would work out perfect. He decides to get in the water (he did put his life jacket on 1st) and swim around to the back of boat trying to push this 25 ft boat on the trailer. With all of the traffic around CFSP, it kept drifting sideways and ended up taking him about 20 mins or better to get it out of the water and out of everyones way. By then, there was probably 5 trucks behind me waiting to take out or put in. I did get a little impatient and said a few choice words under my breathe, but then thought I could be helping him. Some people dont have a choice but to be stupid, this guy definately needed a SIGN and would have probably screwed up on holding the sign in the correct position!! emoBigsmile

 

[hl&s]

"Some people dont have a choice but to be stupid, this guy definately needed a SIGN and would have probably screwed up on holding the sign in the correct position!! "

emoLaugh emoLaugh

You're right ! You can teach an ignorant boater how to handle his boat and He will learn. You can teach an idiot how to put on his clothes and He will learn. But, as I read on this forum all the time, You Just Can't Fix Stupid !!