lakeliving
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So this weekend was probably going to be the last for just the wife and I (before she gives birth) and the forecast looked great. Sunny both days and hot. Saturday we get out for an hour or so, let the dog swim, tool around and we notice the sky to the west getting dark. Thats odd, forecast called for no storm! Grab the phone and check the radar, sure enough there is a band of storms coming. We float for a few more minutes and they wife says "5 More minutes" I say no, captains call and we are heading in. I get the boat in the lift, turn around and see this.
I barely get inside and they winds are crazy. My neighbor had to run out as his down spout was being ripped off his house. Could have been worse though.
The storm and rain blows through and we go back out and have a couple hours together. While floating we notice a lady trying to bring a pontoon into a slip with a decent wind coming broadside. She was so bad the back of the boat came around into the other slip and as she throttled away for another attempt the back of her boat hit the one in the neighboring slip (a Bennington, she was on a crappy sweetwater) After she got it in everyone just got off and walked away. No note left. I drove right past as she was still on the dock to inspect but did not see any damage. I'll let the owner know when I see them out on the lake. I thought I was up by Jack for a minute!! We then head in to get her dad and step mom. When leaving the dock to go out I lift the bimini frame (from trailering to radar) and the port side falls off the fence. The two piece screw came loose and fell in the lake. Circle back, grab a temp bolt and we are on our way. Then while cruising through a section of lake I have driven through a million times we hit something. the whole boat jerked and my father in law said he saw the motor buck. WTF!! I get us to deeper water, jump in and inspect, no observed damage. Take it up to full throttle and no vibrations. I assume all is good. Only hit it at about 4 -6 mph. Maybe only 1400rpm.
That concludes Saturday
Sunday we get out, let the dog swim and the winds are really picking up. We find a place to anchor out of the way. Some kids in a beatup bayliner come by and drop anchor directly up wind of me in 20 mph winds.....Their anchor didn't bite and they are litterally 30 ft away when I let them know their boat is moving right at us. They were too busy passing a bottle of who knows what instead of paying attention. After the girls grab the anchorrs (while these two pussy boy's sit there) they circle around and try again.....directly up wind of us maybe 100 ft.....What do you know, the anchor didn't grab again and they are coming right at us. This time by the time I tell them again and they get their anchors pulled up their boat is about to crash into ours. It doesn't take long in a 20mph wind to be blown around. To make things worse I have a bad back and now my very pregnant wife and I are on our hands an knees holding this other boat off our starboard side so it wouldn't hit ours. Meanwhile those same two pussy boys are just sitting there. I yell at them to get the hell up and help. They are clueless & useless. Kind of in a trance. Luckily no boat to boat contact but I was about to loose it. They leave and we head to the dock. I get the boat into the lift with a 20mph cross wind ( I was impressed with myself!!) and we decide just to sit on the boat while in the lift and relax. Then our neighbor who has a empty lot next to us comes to use his old pontoon. He fights to get it started and then once it fires he pushes off from the dock. It stalls shortly afterward and now the wind is blowing him right at our boat in the lift. I jump up again with a bad back and jump in the water to grab his boat. He tinkers with it and they speed off.
All in all it was nice being on the water but I am almost glad it is Monday!!!!
I know it wasn't a tornado but the storm of events seemed to last all weekend.
How was your uweekend?
I barely get inside and they winds are crazy. My neighbor had to run out as his down spout was being ripped off his house. Could have been worse though.
The storm and rain blows through and we go back out and have a couple hours together. While floating we notice a lady trying to bring a pontoon into a slip with a decent wind coming broadside. She was so bad the back of the boat came around into the other slip and as she throttled away for another attempt the back of her boat hit the one in the neighboring slip (a Bennington, she was on a crappy sweetwater) After she got it in everyone just got off and walked away. No note left. I drove right past as she was still on the dock to inspect but did not see any damage. I'll let the owner know when I see them out on the lake. I thought I was up by Jack for a minute!! We then head in to get her dad and step mom. When leaving the dock to go out I lift the bimini frame (from trailering to radar) and the port side falls off the fence. The two piece screw came loose and fell in the lake. Circle back, grab a temp bolt and we are on our way. Then while cruising through a section of lake I have driven through a million times we hit something. the whole boat jerked and my father in law said he saw the motor buck. WTF!! I get us to deeper water, jump in and inspect, no observed damage. Take it up to full throttle and no vibrations. I assume all is good. Only hit it at about 4 -6 mph. Maybe only 1400rpm.
That concludes Saturday
Sunday we get out, let the dog swim and the winds are really picking up. We find a place to anchor out of the way. Some kids in a beatup bayliner come by and drop anchor directly up wind of me in 20 mph winds.....Their anchor didn't bite and they are litterally 30 ft away when I let them know their boat is moving right at us. They were too busy passing a bottle of who knows what instead of paying attention. After the girls grab the anchorrs (while these two pussy boy's sit there) they circle around and try again.....directly up wind of us maybe 100 ft.....What do you know, the anchor didn't grab again and they are coming right at us. This time by the time I tell them again and they get their anchors pulled up their boat is about to crash into ours. It doesn't take long in a 20mph wind to be blown around. To make things worse I have a bad back and now my very pregnant wife and I are on our hands an knees holding this other boat off our starboard side so it wouldn't hit ours. Meanwhile those same two pussy boys are just sitting there. I yell at them to get the hell up and help. They are clueless & useless. Kind of in a trance. Luckily no boat to boat contact but I was about to loose it. They leave and we head to the dock. I get the boat into the lift with a 20mph cross wind ( I was impressed with myself!!) and we decide just to sit on the boat while in the lift and relax. Then our neighbor who has a empty lot next to us comes to use his old pontoon. He fights to get it started and then once it fires he pushes off from the dock. It stalls shortly afterward and now the wind is blowing him right at our boat in the lift. I jump up again with a bad back and jump in the water to grab his boat. He tinkers with it and they speed off.
All in all it was nice being on the water but I am almost glad it is Monday!!!!
I know it wasn't a tornado but the storm of events seemed to last all weekend.
How was your uweekend?
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