Took the new dink out for a spin yesterday and as we idled past one of the waterfront bars someone called out and asked if we could give him a tow to the ramp (maybe about a mile away). Turned out the boat was sinking... fast. Motor wouldn't start, bilge pump was dead and the water was already over the floorboards of the CC. Asked them if they had put the drain plug in, they said "yes, both of them"... Anyway the situation was urgent so we took them on the hip and managed to get them to the ramp. The boat sank on the ramp before they could get the trailer ready. As they started to winch it onto the trailer they took out the "drain" plugs which turned out to be the plugs to the cockpit scuppers. Eventually they got the boat winched partly up on the trailer and you guessed it, there was ANOTHER drain (in the usual place) with NO plug...
Poor guy has some explaining to do; it was NOT his boat; but his brother-in-law's (Oops!)
"There are those of us who have forgotten the drain plug and those who will..." This poor soul just joined the "club".
We got a "Good Samaritan" point, an hour's entertainment and another story. The "Mad Money" got her sea-trial as a tugboat.
Sorry, we forgot to take pics...
Moral to the story: Never lend your boat to your idiot in-law...
Poor guy has some explaining to do; it was NOT his boat; but his brother-in-law's (Oops!)
"There are those of us who have forgotten the drain plug and those who will..." This poor soul just joined the "club".
We got a "Good Samaritan" point, an hour's entertainment and another story. The "Mad Money" got her sea-trial as a tugboat.
Sorry, we forgot to take pics...
Moral to the story: Never lend your boat to your idiot in-law...