The launch!

[Joe]

Thanks to the fine angler who brought my boat back to the dock this morning after the unmanned splash in.

[Harmsway]

I can see it in my mind's eye . . . put on the brakes too hard, did we?

[Joe]

The last 172 times the eye hook caught and I just lift the ol' girl off. This morning she wanted to jam!

[CSMarine]

It's great when your boat is more excited to get in the water than you. Like a horse ready to run before you get the saddle secured. Then there are days she don't feel like getting wet and don't want to get off the trailer.

[Tidedancer]

Been there done that too. Glad someone was close by to grab your ride.

[Redbelly]

One time my rope broke at Bottoms and the wind took the boat right on out. I was there alone, had to swim a little.....

[Steve Stinson]

I totted one back up the Aucilla to some folks at the dock a couple months ago. It was halfway down river between the landing and the island where the river splits and sort of scared me a little when I first found it. I went to looking for somebody in the river. My buddy and I finally decided to take it on back to the landing. When we rounded the bend and could see the dock, there were some stranded-lookin folks waving there arms at us.

I'm with you Redbelly - I would have already followed it down the bank as far as I could and swam the rest. I guess they were content to watch it drift off toward the gulf or maybe none of them could swim.
-Steve

[Redbelly]

They was askeered of the river

[Dubble Trubble]

I watched a gentleman put his on the skeg at Ralph King Landing at Spring Creek (Georgia) Saturday. He was lucky. She just teetered on the skeg with the front of the boat just barely hanging on the trailer. I helped him winch it back on the trailer enough to go ahead and launch. There was a nice 6 foot long streak of aluminum on the ramp concrete, but no busted skeg.

I learned long ago to not unhook that winch until I was in the water and stopped.

Dubble

[Just Fish]

Reminds me of a day on the ramp at Ocklocknee river at 90 just west of Tallahassee. A guy in an old station wagon backs his boat down the ramp, gets out and into the boat and successfully launches his boat. About the time he gets the john boat out into the middle of the river and hes headed back to shore to get the car, the car slips out of park and gently glides trailer and all down into the bottom of the river. If any of you know this spot its about 15-18 ft deep at the end of the ramp. I was able to troll over the top of the car and let him know that his car was indeed sitting on the bottom as I could see it on my depth finder. I was able to load my boat over the top of his car and trailer. Lake Jackson towing had to bring the boom out to pull the car up off the bottom.