How NOT to get your AR190/195 out of a garage......

[2kwik4u]

o, I'm posting this in hopes that someone somewhere will learn from my mistake and , well, NOT do this.

If you can get your AR190/195 into a garage with a 7' door, and THEN raise the tower inside the garage for cleaning, or whatever......PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE mark the hitch area with something that reminds you to take it down BEFORE you pull out of the garage!!!

This could have been MUCH MUCH worse for me. I was in a hurry to get the boat out of the garage at lunchtime. Got distracted by a neighbor, then the dog, and was clearly off my "checklist" game. Hitched up the boat to the truck, and proceeded to pull out of the garage. Luckily I was going slow, and appear to have only damaged the top panel of the garage door. I can't even find a scratch on the tower of the boat, and no noticeable damage to the mounting locations on the tower. Like I said it could have been MUCH MUCH worse!

Here's the damage

Notice the tower is still up in the this picture.


The door still opens and closes, but you can see here it clearly isn't going to keep any rain out. Hopefully just that top panel on the door is all that is damaged.


Moral of the story here......Don't be in a rush, and use a checklist to make sure you have all your ducks in a row before moving even a little bit!

*edit*...uploaded the pics to this site instead of Photobucket......No other changes.

 

[ruztew]

I tried to pull my SX190 out of the garage with the engine hatch cover open... put a big gash in the cover and ruined the garage door opener... oh yea, it was on my birthday as I was excitedly pulling the boat out

 

[Hannibal]

We're several notches down on the totem pole so picture a carport on a small house lol! I'm backing the FSH Sport under the carport and the T-top actually goes over the roof up until the uprights are a couple or three inches from the flashing. So my lovely bride is back there watching for me with hands as wide apart as she can get them. To me this indicates I still have around 5' 7" to go. I felt a stop like I'd backed into a tire stop as she claps her hands together indicating it's time to stop. No real damage but she doesn't help me back the boat or travel trailer in anymore. So easy to get distracted or get misleading signals. Glad your damage was minimal.

 

[Ronnie]

@2kwik4u , why do you bother to put the tower back up when the boat is in the garage?

I wish I could fit my boat in the garage.

 

[Peelz]

hehehe happens to everyone at least once. we HOPE ONCE.

i was working on my lower unit once...changing water pump. decided i needed more room behind. pushed full force forward, trailer rolls... and rolls...oops. garage door still down. tongue went nearly through it.

spring was coming and I wanted to be ready dangit!

 

[Dough]

Done it. Sad part, with both of my boats, twice with the pontoon. Rubber mallet on the back side of the door and there is a good chance it will pop back. Shit happens.

 

[2kwik4u]

@2kwik4u , why do you bother to put the tower back up when the boat is in the garage?

I wish I could fit my boat in the garage.

The tower goes back up when I'm cleaning,organizing, modifying, or just sitting in the new boat. Plenty of space in the garage with it up, just so long as you don't try to move it out with the tower up.

 

[Eric Ballard]

I recently was backing my boat into my garage and forgot to put down the bimini top. it bent the shit out or if, but I was able to get it back together and it's still usable thankfully. I will need to replace some of it at some point.

 

[Zeus2013]

I think we have all done something along those lines. Silly humans..

 

[J-RAD]

My house is missing a downspout due to leaving the tower up... besides a couple of scuffs on the top corner of the tower no damage done.

 

[njmr2fan]

I always put my tower up in the garage so my tower speakers don't rest on my rear seats. I almost pulled out once with the tower up and caught it at the last sec. I move the boat by hand with a Trailer Valet

 

[Wayloncle]

I just got back from the lake a little while ago, backed my boat into the driveway like I always do when I bring it home. When I walked back and forth from the truck to the house unloading stuff I noticed there was a scratch in the sidewalk I hadn't noticed before, but didn't think much of it. Next trip back I noticed the bottom of my brand new JBN spare tire cover that I just put on this morning had a hole scuffed into the bottom of it, I guess I should have checked to see if my sore tire mount and tire would clear the sidewalk going into my driveway.

My driveway slopes toward the house from the street and the sidewalk is raised, but I didn't think it was that close to scraping the trailer

 

[xedelatorre]

What's the minimum garage door clearance needed for an ar192 (tower collapsed)?

 

[2kwik4u]

Check on this thread

https://jetboaters.net/threads/how-to-get-your-2016-ar192-or-ar195-in-a-garage-less-than-7.10369/ <--Lots of good info there on what heights are needed and minimums to get into/out of a garage.

Modding the stops on the boat will get you in a standard 7' opening garage (assuming you take the tower down )

 

[2kwik4u]

Quick circle back on this thread to update the status.

I was able to "beat" the door back into a 99% correct shape. It's good enough the wife cna no longer find the damage, and I can't see light through it anymore when closed.

Still consider myself very fortunate that it wasn't worse than it is!