Very Eventful Weekend

[OCPat]

Monterro, thanks for the info! Looked up the house we are staying at and you can see the bridge from the deck. looks like about a 5min ride.

 

[DBamaC]

@Monterro, Great looking family!

I lost my anchor over the weekend too. Just one of many incidences that tried to ruin my weekend, but I didn't let it.

Just so you feel a little better about your mistake, I was putting everything up to take the kids tubing. I was hurrying because the other boats in my group of friends were already taking off. I cranked and cracked the throttle to pull out the slack only to have no steering, she was pulling helplessly to the left. My first thought was "crap, someone kicked my nozzle and bloke my steering cable." I turned her off, hung over the rear and had the wife saw the steering wheel. Everything looked great. Started back up to try again and the same thing. I turned her off to scratch my head and hear another boater yell "your anchor is still out!" Crap! How embarrassing. I then tried to get it to release, but by then it was hopelessly tangled in something. We were in over 20' of water so out came the knife. At least it was a cheap slip ring anchor.

I think I'll just buy another one just like it some I won't be out much next time I decide to be a bonehead.

 

[4x15mph]

@Monterro , sorry to hear about the mishaps but the kids look very happy. Priceless

 

[blacksapphirez]

no brake is scary! I added airlift to mine prior to the 24 footer addition no sag

 

[Monterro]

@DBamaC Seems like everyone on is making those beginner of the summer mistakes. I thought about just using the cheap anchor that came stock but I love the box anchor. I never learned how to properly set an anchor so I like just throwing the box anchor in and letting it do its job. If something happens to this second one I just bought then I'm going to start looking at other options.

 

[Monterro]

@blacksapphirez Im definitely going to be putting those my truck asap. I put them on my wife's Jeep last year and love them. I should have put them on prior to this trip but I was focused on everything else. I put all my focus on the boat and totally forgot about the tow vehicle. Never going to make that mistake again. Did you go with the onboard compressor?

 

[sstegh]

@blacksapphirez Im definitely going to be putting those my truck asap. I put them on my wife's Jeep last year and love them. I should have put them on prior to this trip but I was focused on everything else. I put all my focus on the boat and totally forgot about the tow vehicle. Never going to make that mistake again. Did you go with the onboard compressor?

I added the on board compressor and it auto-levels, I don't have to to anything. Best thing I've added to the truck!

 

[blacksapphirez]

I put mine coming out the back by the license plate. On Board Air would've been just too much. I need to carry a 4 in 1 compressor/jump start thingy for the boat anyway

 

[blacksapphirez]

 

[captainhook]

I learned long ago watching my father that this boating thing is a pain in the ass. Rarely is there a completely uneventful outing in my experience. Over the years we've put to boat in the water with no plug, lost glasses in water so cold we just watched them sink, lost power for whatever reason after launching, killed batteries, broken driveshafts on dangerous days and wound up using the boat as an unintended battering ram into the seawall (one of the scariest moments of my life at 11 years old or so), rowed the boat back with shovels, gotten towed in/towed others, etc.

All that being said, it's still worth it!

My first outing was this weekend and I couldn't for the life of me get the anchor to catch on anything. Five times I nearly ended up in someone else's boat who was beached because of the wind and current so I finally just gave up and parked a couple miles away from the beach and left the anchor stowed. I sure was wishing I had a box anchor.