I solo launch and Trailer my boat. In and out rapidly! I really enjoy doing it in front of the people that have teams of helpers and spotters! Lol ....love your videos
It never ceases to amaze me how many of these guys come in without bothering to get lines ready before they are fighting to stay in place against wind and current. It is like driving into a parking lot and waiting to install the brakes in your vehicle until you are pulling into the parking space.
@@huntermcelroy6792 I meant the croc was born in that place and the water is its habitat, which is being polluted by boaters, but I don’t expect you to understand that, Mr Hunter.
Yep, these days my brother and I just put the boats in and out when nobody is around. Not sure how we manage without them. Their nerves can't really take watching me slam the pontoon onto the trailer at speed because of a cross wind.
in Europe we move our 12m yacht around in fairly tight areas and dock without anyone ever getting off the boat. The key is to be able to handle your lines well enough to lasso bollards or cleats on the dock and to know how to use your engine to stay pinned against the dock while you get the lines sorted. There are yacht owners here in fairly heavy tidal and wind areas who can do this single handed.. amazing you don’t have to know these fairly basic skills to drive a boat elsewhere 🤓
There are many people who handle their boats like a boss, but showing a video of them isn't entertaining. So, the videos on this channel focus on some of the not so experienced boaters. I wouldn't doubt there are more boaters in Europe that handle their boats better, here it's just a different animal.
Son-in-law probably just had Dad-in-law pluck his last nerve and S-i-l reminded him of last year’s Xmas present, much to the chagrin of wife/daughter. It was a Smith & Wesson Model 500 with an 8 3/8 in. barrel. It will chamber 5-.50 caliber shells and weigh 5 lbs. He advised it is kept on his person at all times and he has a CCW permit. It was a very quiet ride home from the family boating adventure. 😎🤘
Now this is must-watch footage! Not sure if anybody cares to witness, but the public boat ramp at Snow’s Cut in NC gets some first class googans daily. I could see a great business coming from this channel!
The inept boaters and the misplaced croc enjoy the environment and get along just fine. And they helped create interesting video content for more than 100,000 viewers. Then, to make things more interesting, the child-like spats among the commenters adds another dimension of classic absurdity... great show! 👍
We lived in Cutler Bay before moving to Dixie Co. Me and my boies used to ride our bikes to Black Point to the point and island hoop and fish and chill. Thanks for these vidz.
I always put my truck’s tailgate down and that helps a ton with backing up, I twist my body in the driver seat and look behind me instead of using my mirrors and then it becomes natural
When I was a kid we had a 23 foot sailboat that we used to trailer, and for the longest time for the life of us, we always had a bear of a time to get it to load onto the trailer level. Turns out the way the boat was loaded made it have a little lean to one side. The solution was to have 2 or 3 five gallon pails, and fill them with water and hang them off the high side like fenders, which was just enough weight to level it off while it was being loaded on the trailer and up the ramp. Might be the guys with the U-Haul pickup have a natural lean to contend with.
So are things done differently at places like this? The way I've always done it is I drive the boat up to the dock, just inches away my driver steps out and grabs the trailer while I go wait around away from the dock for him to get the trailer. He backs it in and I drive the boat on and we pull the boat out. The trailer is in the water for 3 min, max, and I'm not tying up a dock spot. But when I see these everyone is tying up to the dock and waiting for the trailer.
@bob builder LOL. Not a chance. I used to regularly go to Lake Mojave on holidays, talk about a zoo. That place is so nuts you could take a case of beer and sit under a shade for a full day of entertainment. And now I launch at the #1 bass fishing lake in the country.
The green bimini-ed deck boat . . . purple-hatted MIL was the only 1 who looked like she knew what she was doing to me. She deboards & throws the line to Captain Noclue, who then secures it to a rear cleat (1 kudo for that), then she correctly pulls the stern toward the dock. Meanwhile, Gramps stands there like a tree stump but should've been keeping the bow from pinballing into the dock. But MIL's real heroine-ism shines thru when she keeps the stern from banging - she bent over & did the full body save, using both arms & legs. Great job & multiple kudos to MIL!
First guy cant be mad at anybody on the dock. He should learn how to drive and dock a boat. And learn how to back up a trailer...or better yet, just sell the boat.
Even with friend I going boating with I go over procedures before we get to the dock so we are ready, always good to get brain thinking before you need it to think
If you insist, and it appears many people do, on being a bow only tie up crew, learn to turn your prop towards the dock and tap it into reverse and you'll snug right up to the dock and earn Bronco's "pro" rating. And the appreciation of everyone else who's waiting to us the launch. Cheers.
If your boat has a midship cleat, why don’t people use it when tying up to the dock? A simple one-line tie off will keep the boat straight and snug at the dock.
Is there a rule at the ramp that prohibits dropping a person off to back in while the boat moves out of the way and waits for the trailer?? or just too much traffic??
My wife can back better than these captains in Miami. We get our boat out of the water locked down and on the road in about 5 minutes after a fishing trip. These are mind-blowing.
I LOVE the content of this new channel...I just wish the vids were longer, or they came out more often! This stuff is not only entertaining...but it's great to watch to learn how to be a better boater in your own vessel (what NOT to do)! LOL...keep 'em coming guys!
Is it a normal thing to have two seperate lines in the USA? Here in Australia we typically have ONE line attached at the bow at one end and at the stern of the boat at the other (at least where I go boating). It makes it easier to keep control of the vessel at the dock and only needs one deckie. Is this just an Aussie thing?
Love this channel! I usually laugh at pretty much all of them (not that I know Jack S**t myself). I actually felt bad for the “son in law” though. What a dick, that father in law.
Green shorts: a “high center of mass” never works well for jumping physics - acceleration, deceleration, force transfer, and angle of inclination all come into play...that’s why you will never see gymnasts of his size....that truly is a “Leap of Faith”....
Wondering why they don't let someone off and wait in the water away from the dock until the trailer is in the water. That's how we do it in Arizona. This is just weird 😕
You must really enjoy doing this. I know that I just enjoy them a lot. At time frame 7:18, look at the dock to the right of the boat’s transom, when all of a sudden, the lady in the dress suddenly just APPEARS OUT OF NOWHERE!!! I watched it 5 times already! It’s probably nothing, but it’s just weird!
What I don't get is why would anyone use a bow line, or a stern line at a temporary dock? Why does everyone have these long dock lines? A 6 foot long mid cleat line is all you ever need. It's not like you are going to stay over night.
In the scenario of the father in law: why don’t more people get that front line tied down good then put the boat in reverse, turn the wheel and it’ll pull the back end to the dock. ??
I am amazed at these clowns. Most do not have lines on (fore, mid, and stern) already attached ready for docking when they arrive to toss over the piling or to someone on the dock. Crazy this is why people should be required to go to school and get a licence with re school every 5 years
Watching some of these people launch and retrieve boats it's a wonder you don't catch more collisions on video. So much time would be saved if people prepared a little better before hand.
I'm fascinated that every single boat has that one person who has to jump 4 feet to the dock. Why can't these bozo's ever get close enough to the docks to avoid that death jump?
