The art of
Sinking a boat.Well, nearly sinking a boat. Our boat nonetheless. We went fishing for the first time this year on Sunday. I should have known it was going to be a day of problems right away when the lights on the trailer didn't work. However, that didn't deter us we went ahead and jaunted up the road.
Now, once at the lake, we have a routine of getting the boat ready. We do things such as, paying the launch fee, pulling off the restraining straps, removing the prop brace and attaching the depth finder.
Oh and installing the drain plug.
That responsibility fell upon my father. I'm not sure what it was, whether he was sleepy, or if he was thinking about all the fish we were supposed to catch. I thought something looked wrong as they backed the boat down the boat ramp. I wasn't fully sure as normally I'm off waiting on the boat dock. Don fired up the engine, backed off the trailer and then pulled around to where we were waiting to board.
I got in and promptly notice a lot of water in the back of the boat.
"Where is all this water coming from?" I asked. Don turned and looked.
"Oh shit." he said. "The plug's not in."
I jumped off the boat, and we started yelling at my nearly deaf father to back down the ramp again. He finally understood and did as he was asked. Don cranked up the bilge pump, then loaded the boat.
Sure enough, the boat plug wasn't in the right spot. My father had plugged the livewell drain. I'm betting there were probably 100 gallons of water that came pouring out of our boat. There were a couple of guys waiting on us so they could put in, but they weren't in any hurry. Of course they were sharing a laugh with us about our nearly sinking of our boat.
We told dad, he couldn't be on our boat then. These guys offered to take him, to which i said:
"You can have him, but he'll sink your boat."
posted by Rusty @ 8:28 AM
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