Too tired or drunk to hear / realize?

[TonyR]

My FlagCam caught this tonight as it was getting dark (yes, I know...the azalea needs trimming) but I could hear it inside the house. Some fool pulling a boat & trailer up the hill from the ramp at the lake 400 yards away forgot to lift his outboard motor up and secure it. The F-250 Super Duty could care less and the prop carved 2 gouges up the hill and out of sight. I could hear him all the way. Either his radio was blaring or he was too drunk to notice. Either way, he's in for a surprise later!

Short video below followed by a still image made with my phone:

View attachment FlagCam_053122_1814.mp4

 

[sebastiantombs]

Too bad it didn't rip the motor off the transom or, better yet, rip the transom off. Same kind of idiot like the one in that head-on collision on the Wilmington River over the weekend.

 

[Smilingreen]

Too bad that wasn't an easi-loader trailer. I have seen several brand new, nice boats in past seasons at the lake, sitting in the middle of the boat ramp when the new owner didn't realize he needed to secure the boat before heading up the ramp.

 

[TonyR]

He could have used one of these, an adjustable transom saver. I found one 10 years ago at the end of my driveway at the road where somebody lost it. It's still in my garage.

This guy may have had one but was too drunk to put it in and secure it....who knows!

 

[Flintstone61]

I bought a transom saver once. it unsaved my weld(cracks developed) points on the trailer

 

[TonyR]

Neither of our boats and motors of the '60's were large, just average; a 16 ft aluminum with 40 HP Mercury then a 18 ft. fiberglass with a 70 HP Mercury. In both cases you'd tilt up the motor by hand and slide a pin in the transom mount so it'd stay raised up and the prop would clear the ground by 1 to 2 feet. It was the same pin that when you put the motor in reverse the pin, in its lower position, would be grabbed by the mechanism so the motor wouldn't try to climb up in the water but instead its thrust would pull the boat backwards. The pin would just be moved manually from a low point against the transom (motor down) to the highest point when out of the water and trailering (motor up).

I've been away from boats and outboards like forever but IIRC most of the big motors nowadays, like 125 HP and up, can be raised electrically by push button.

 

[The Automation Guy]

Qualified Captain material right there!

 

[Coldair]

Thankfully I sold our boat when Obama was driving fuel prices up

 

[Sybertiger]

Ah man, I wish you warned me to turn the volume down....LOL

 

[TonyR]

Thankfully I sold our boat when Obama was driving fuel prices up

Call me curious but what are you selling NOW ?