A buddy of mine told me his 18 year old son took his brand new Toyota Tacoma and parked it at the ramp below a dam and went trout fishing. Came back and the river was up to the top of the cab.

 

Old trick with the small boat, you have a few inches if water in the boat, get up to plane speed, pull the plug, water drains out. Trying to do three things at once, you hand the plug to the six year old "Daddy's Girl" hold this. She drops it over the side...

 

Time to make a little dutchman out of the little Daddy's Girl and stuff her finger in the hole until daddy gets the boat trailer in the water !!!

So far I have been lucky launching the pontoon. (Knocking on wood). The picture of the truck rolling into the lagoon flashes into my mind every launch though .

PISTOL

 

Around here on fishing operner, you can always count on incidents at EVERY boat launch. Usually it is just someone who didn't tie up their boat or something and ends up swimming to retrieve it I remember when I was little, my dad took us fishing and got the station wagon stuck when launching the boat, soooooooo might as well get some fishing done instead of sitting around. We came back at sunset, and somebody pulled it out for us It was up to the wheel wells after sinking backwards

That reminds me of another one, that same station wagon was driven 15miles home in REVERSE from that boat launch a couple months later

 

One thing I did a few years back,some bright person gave me some advise,he told me to put pledge furniture wax on the carpeted bunks that the boat sits on,makes it slide better,well the boat was a 93 Fourwinns 200 Horizon,well I was holding the rope while a buddy of mine backed it in the water and I had already released the crank strap from the boat,well the trailer tire just hit the water and there the boat went right off the trailer,I was lucky enough that it was far enough in the water so it just put some sand scratches on the bottom,I was real lucky but felt real stupid

 

Or get up on plane real quick.