Kevin.S wrote: But probably not the usual sort of ramp chaos that you might think. As we arrived back from a fishing trip on Saturday (terrible days fishing -not even a single bite) a woman shouted to us from the pontoons asking if we could help her husband who had broken down. He was only 500m or so from the ramp so we set off to tow him back. We soon found the broken down boat, along with a couple of kids floating out the back on a biscuit. We hooked up a tow rope and took him back to the ramp, which was a little tricky as there was quite a current running across the ramp on the outgoing tide. Fortunately there was a guy who had just launched his boat and he grabbed our painter and pulled us to the pontoons and then I untied the boat we were towing and passed him that rope and he pulled them in. He then set off for a fishing trip, but he didn't get 10m from the pontoons before his steering cable broke leaving him traveling in circles next to the ramp. With his wife sitting on the transom astride the outboard to "steer" it he managed to reverse close enough for us to reach out from the pontoons and grab them and pull them back in. After all that just getting back to the ramp in a fully functioning boat seemed quite a result compared to the others around us, even if the fishing had been terrible. |
Wanda_Ra wrote: I always start the outboard up at home n run it for a min jsut to check.Dont need water for that short a time. |
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