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Does your boat seem slow or sluggish? [funny]

pyonir

pyonir

Lifer
heard this on the radio this morning and had to look up the story...it is from a couple years ago but was funny as hell! link here



<< From: Andrew Llewellyn [Andrew.Llewellyn@hnz.co.nz] Sent: Thursday, 20 January 2000 1:50 pm

Last summer, down on Lake Isabella, located in the high desert, an hour east of Bakersfield, California, a blonde, new to boating was having a problem. No matter how hard she tried, she just couldn't get her brand new 22-ft Bayliner to perform. It wouldn't get on a plane at all, and it was very sluggish in almost every manoeuvre, no matter how much power she applied.

After about an hour of trying to make it go, she putted over to a nearby marina. Maybe they could tell her what was wrong. A thorough topside check revealed everything was in perfect working order. The engine ran fine, the outdrive went up and down, the prop was the correct size and pitch.

So, one of the marina guys jumped in the water to check underneath. He came up choking on water, he was laughing so hard.

Wait for it ...

REMEMBER, this is TRUE ...

Under the boat, still strapped securely in place ... was the trailer!! >>


 
LOL, I am just waiting for oneof the brain-trusts that frequent the marina that i work at to do it. I wouldn't be too surprised.

m00se
 
I think it'd be pretty easy to tell if a trailor is still on the boat w/o having to jump in the water. Sounds like an untrue story to me.
 
Yeah, can't be true. Most modern trailers for family runabout boats attach to the boat only at the bow by what basically amounts to a clip. Even if the boat were sufficiently bouyant to keep properly afloat (by "properly" I mean a reasonable amount of gunwale above the waterline), the trailer would pivot about the bow of the boat with the tongue of the trailer pointing close to straight up and the rear of the trailer hanging down and increasing the draft of the boat by about 15 foot.

ZV
 
i know this has to be false

if she left the trailer on, there is no way she could have know about the drain plug, which drains the boat when out of water. you have to put it in when you go into the water else you sink in hours. also, a any 22ft boat has a trailer with an arm that supports the nose of the boat. that arm goes almost to the tip of the boat, which is visible above water unless the nose of your boat is submerged in which case your boat is sunk. how could they tell the pitch of the prop witout removing it off the boat, i know im not that good. finally if the boat couldn't plane then how could she not see the trailer attached! i mean a heavy bayliner stands pretty high up before it hits plane.
 
hmm, my caddilac has been sluggish lately (the thing doesn't drive likeaboat, more like an aircraft carrier). I'll check underneath for small commuter cars.
 


<< Zenmervolt said it with correct terminology >>

Actually, I just faked it really well. 😉 As for the plug, good point, hadn't thought about that, and that's usually my obsessive fixation when I borrow my father's 18-footer. Compounding things is the fact that we seem to have acquired a second plug from somewhere, which turns up at random intervals. It's especially fun when I find the spare plug in the boat's glovebox when I'm out in the middle of a lake and have forgotten that it's a spare. My friends say that occasion was one of my more interesting freak-outs though. 🙂

ZV
 
just set the bilge on auto,you'll know if you see water being pumped out nonstop. mine beeps after continueous pumping to warn that the boat is taking in a lot of water. first (and only) time i left the plug out i was heading into the middle of the lake and it started beeping at me, thought something was going to blow up. poped the hatch and im staring at 2in of water. made it back to the dock but its engraved into my head now, plug needs to be in!
 
You people know more about boats than me, but I was going to say "I bet that's BS, as our boat (and all the other boats at the launch ramp) didn't strap to the trailer, they basically just sit on top of it."
 


<< just set the bilge on auto,you'll know if you see water being pumped out nonstop. mine beeps after continueous pumping to warn that the boat is taking in a lot of water. first (and only) time i left the plug out i was heading into the middle of the lake and it started beeping at me, thought something was going to blow up. poped the hatch and im staring at 2in of water. made it back to the dock but its engraved into my head now, plug needs to be in! >>

No auto setting for the bilge on my father's boat. That's an excellent idea though. One thing I have wondered about though; once the boat is on plane and is moving along at a good clip, wouldn't there be a low pressure area around the drain plug hole? (Assuming that the drain plug is at the bottom of the transom and not on the V portion of the hull.) If so then the boat would only take on water if sitting or moving very slowly. You can test this idea first, ok? 😉

ZV

EDIT: Because "humm" != "hull".
 
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