These guys had a Bad day - don’t forget your drain plug

[Farny]

Good reminder to do your launch checklist

 

[FSH 210 Sport]

Kinda sucks when your boat doesn’t have a self bailing deck…I’m actually quite amazed at how many fishing boats don’t have self bailing decks. Not to mention all the bow rider boats.

 

[Master Blaster]

By the video a self bailing deck would not have helped. With the bow cap separated the water was getting in between the deck and hull. What a sucky deal.
Sounds like the people and the boat were saved.

 

[2kwik4u]

Reminds me of a decade ago with my old Rinker.

We were on day 3 of a long weekend and just put in. I drove the truck she drove the boat. I back in, we go through the routine. She's off the trailer and floating near the dock, I go park. As I'm walking down the courtesy dock ramp/walkway thing I notice the bilge pump was running. That's weird, this boat has always been dry as a bone, even after aggressive days of watersports and such. Somethings not quite right. She motors over, and as I step onto the deck I notice the ski locker door is FLOATING. The vests and skis in the locker were pushing it up and water was starting to wash over the deck onto the carpet. That's when it hit me that I hadn't put the plug back in from the day before. I took control from her immediately as I didn't feel I had time to explain (in retrospect this scared the crap out of her, and I have since learned to communicate, even basically, while under duress). I "beached" the boat right there on the ramp. Hopped out and screwed the plug in to stop the leak. Left the bilge running and went and got the truck. We reloaded, got out of the way and drained the boat. Reinstalled the plug, relaunched, and had a good day after that. Sucks we had to learn that way though.

- Knocking on wood - Haven't done it since either

 

[FSH 210 Sport]

By the video a self bailing deck would not have helped. With the bow cap separated the water was getting in between the deck and hull. What a sucky deal.
Sounds like the people and the boat were saved.

What do you mean bow cap?

 

[HawaiiBreeze]

Ok this was bad and I've been guilty twice of forgetting them, thankfully I was still real close to the dock the first time and the last time it was still on the trailer so it was an EZ fix

BUT has anyone seen the short vid of the guy (in another country) who pulled into the gas station and pumped 231 liters of gas into his fishing rod holder? The rod holder was on the rear gunnel and was just open at the bottom so the fuel filled up his interior space. He leans over the gunnel and you can see the seating area awash in fuel like an aquarium. I saw it from a link sent to me from Instagram.

 

[FSH 210 Sport]

My personal moment came when I took my friends and their 13 year old fishing…. We had been fishing for a while by a dam for smallies.. I was re tying a rod set up when I heard this water running into the lake water..I thought hmmm, that’s funny I wonder what tha.. oh shoot! Looked over the side and saw the stream of water coming out of the bilge outlet.
Everyone scrambled and worked together … by the time everyone got their lines in the bilge pump had stopped but was back on by the time we got to the dock. My friend ran up to my truck and we got the boat on the trailer and pulled it just far enough out to let the bilge drain, install the plug, re launch and continued our day. Moral of the story? I got distracted and didn’t run through my check list…boo.

 

[Farny]

Ok this was bad and I've been guilty twice of forgetting them, thankfully I was still real close to the dock the first time and the last time it was still on the trailer so it was an EZ fix

BUT has anyone seen the short vid of the guy (in another country) who pulled into the gas station and pumped 231 liters of gas into his fishing rod holder? The rod holder was on the rear gunnel and was just open at the bottom so the fuel filled up his interior space. He leans over the gunnel and you can see the seating area awash in fuel like an aquarium. I saw it from a link sent to me from Instagram.

Wholly crap! Major fire hazard what an idiot

 

[HawaiiBreeze]

Ok I found the video.

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[Master Blaster]

What do you mean bow cap?

The top molded cap separated from the molded hull so the entire front of the bow was open. Every time the nose went into the water at all water poured into the boat straight into the hull. Take a big bilge pump to get that out.

 

[Master Blaster]

Aaaaand, last time out I forgot my plug. Was flicking switches checking stuff and was quite surprised that instead of hearing the electric hum of the bilge pump I heard a stream of water. My boat stays dry in the bilge normally. Remembered to put it in then! Really glad mine installs easy from the inside!

 

[FSH 210 Sport]

The top molded cap separated from the molded hull so the entire front of the bow was open. Every time the nose went into the water at all water poured into the boat straight into the hull. Take a big bilge pump to get that out.

Where did that info come from? I don’t see anything like that from the attached video link…it says there that they forgot the drain plug ??