Near misses
Aug 27, 2020 19:54:15 #
My first boat with a kill switch taught me to unhook the lanyard when you move around in the boat,after getting towed back to the ramp 2 miles,working on the boat the next day for a good while I saw the kill switch and thought what is this,flipped the switch and first put on the starter rope,started right up
Aug 27, 2020 19:59:47 #
1old timer wrote:
My first boat with a kill switch taught me to unhook the lanyard when you move around in the boat,after getting towed back to the ramp 2 miles,working on the boat the next day for a good while I saw the kill switch and thought what is this,flipped the switch and first put on the starter rope,started right up
I think you aren't alone on that one old timer.
I had a 9hp pull start some years back and forgot to put the little red clip on once in awhile. Dahhhh Pull Pull Pull, oh insert clip and look it starts right up.
Aug 27, 2020 23:48:14 #
Will1027
Loc: Hood Canal
My Dad nearly didn't make it back in the 50's with 2 other Navy buddies, one went to take a leak over the stern , hit the exposed spark plug, jumped back and capsized the boat. Coast Guard picked them up after nearly 45 minutes in 45 degree water.
Aug 27, 2020 23:53:41 #
stuco
Loc: Northern Utah - Salt Lake City
Will1027 wrote:
My Dad nearly didn't make it back in the 50's with 2 other Navy buddies, one went to take a leak over the stern , hit the exposed spark plug, jumped back and capsized the boat. Coast Guard picked them up after nearly 45 minutes in 45 degree water.
Man, who knew it was so dangerous peeing on a boat!
Aug 28, 2020 12:40:04 #
Will1027 wrote:
My Dad nearly didn't make it back in the 50's with 2 other Navy buddies, one went to take a leak over the stern , hit the exposed spark plug, jumped back and capsized the boat. Coast Guard picked them up after nearly 45 minutes in 45 degree water.
Safe to say he was pissed off.
Aug 28, 2020 14:03:03 #
I think my lowrance hook fish finder has a kill switch oni it sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t, i don’t have a manual for it.-
Aug 28, 2020 21:13:26 #
I was fishing with my dad at night for smallmouth,we were at tupper lake ny shore fishing ware the big river runs into tupper . Water falls And heavy current , he was right on the edge by the river and I look and he’s gone I run over and he’s in the water pole in hand and I pulled him out.was scary I looked just at the right time or he would have been washed out into the lake 20 ft deep he just hurt his knee we got lucky !!! He was 80 years old. You just never know fish with a buddy
Aug 29, 2020 13:31:34 #
Ben Bragg wrote:
I religiously wear an auto inflate PFD While fishi... (show quote)
Happy you are OK and didn't go overboard. Wearing that vest is SMART!
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