In order to participate in the GunBroker Member forums, you must be logged in with your GunBroker.com account. Click the sign-in button at the top right of the forums page to get connected.
DRAIN PLUG
bullshot
Member Posts: 14,684 ✭✭✭✭
DON'T LEAVE HOME WITHOUT IT
"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you"
Comments
Oh Ohhhh
That looks like the boat I hired to transport my guns
I have a brother trying to impress the girls with out the plug in. They were only wet to their knees when he beached it under power. My mother had one child that wasn't very bright.
Your brother needs to date larger women and have them sit on the stern (not in the cabin) to balance the boat.
Are we suppose to guess which child ? 😉😜
Sorry, I'm in a weird mood tonight !
That is the new convertible submarine that papa Joe just ordered.
Joe
Was around 5 when Mom/ Dad/ Aunt went to town on lake Wawasee in Indiana . I bugged Uncle I was hungry and he was most likely pretty well intoxicated. He dug up something in the refrigerator at the lake house and spread it on crackers. We both ate a whole plate of it. They come back and come to find out it was friskies cat food in a can on crackers we had eaten. I went out on the dock , fished a while and decided to get down in the boat.. A 16 foot or so ski boat ... and started fishing. Then I pulled this plug out of it and it started taking on water. I got back up on the dock and watched it go all the way down as far as the rope would let it. You actually could still see it. I fished a little longer and then went inside. They all went to take a boat ride ..and ... my rear end was red for a week.
Been known to launch a big ol Jon boat, level full of decoys, at midnight.
Be motoring across a marsh, and notice the decoys started bobbing around/floating.
I'd just grab the plug, shove it in from the outside, and go.
Get to the spot, put out decoys. Before we'd ditch the boat, I'd crank up the motor, pull the plug again, and open up the motor, and it'd drain most of the water out, while cruising around the marsh.
Memories...
There is a reason it is good to have a chain or string attached to the drain plug and secured to a close by seat or brace. Don't ask how I know this but you can't row fast enough to prevent water coming in like you can with an outboard motor. Bob
sooo I was about 23 and dad got a new bass tracker and I decided to go check it out on the river... launch went good and I was cruising down the way and my feet suddenly were wet... the boat was starting to point up and then it came to me... I barely made it back to the bank and was bailing all day.
Note: in hindsight when ever your feet get wet, hit the gas and don't slow down till the waters gone , then put in the plug
Growing up fishing and camping on Current River in Missouri was an adventure. Dad had a 24 or 26 foot wooden jonboat. It was so big you could walk the top of the sides. I remember every year we would get it to the river or pull it up out of the slough and flip it over to tar the bottom, EVERY year!
We carried plastic milk jugs cut off about halfway down with the handle still attached. These were used by all of us kids to bail out the water that seeped in. A 9.9 Merc doesn't push a behemoth wooden jonboat very fast.
We would load up that boat with blankets, pillows, towels, cast iron cookware, a 20 lb sack of potatoes, some onions, hot dog buns, crisco and corn meal. The cooler would be stocked with milk, hot dogs, and beer. The last thing Dad and the boat took down the river to the gravel bar was a couple of old mattresses rolled up. We camped that way for years. We moved uptown when my folks bought a tent.
Daddy and I would seine for minnows and run trot lines in the middle of the night. We spent the day swimming and fishing. We ate what we caught with fried potatoes and hush puppies.
It was awesome.
We were in a big catamaran race on St Petersburg beach years ago and everyone was jockeying for a starting position before the starting gun was fired, we managed to be in perfect position exactly at the starting line when the race started. Everyone trimmed their rigs and the race was on, we were in the lead by several boat lengths when the entire fleet started walking away from us, we then realized that the trampoline we were sitting on was the only part of the boat that wasn't submerged.
We turned towards the beach but didn't make it to shore (for quite a while), we were still under sail but were essentially a submarine with a sail, sunken sail boats are VERY, VERY slow ya know.
Anyway we took some serious ribbing for ..... well, years and years. We finished watching the race from the beach, beer in hand while we waited for the sub to drain, that took a very long time as both 18 foot hulls were full and very heavy, we recruited a couple of dozen spectators to help pull the boat far enough out of the water to drain.
Good Times
Several years ago I bought a 14 foot aluminum fishing boat from one of my nephews. As I was inspecting it before purchase I noticed it had two holes in the stern. When I asked nephew why the two holes, he just smiled and said one for water in and one for water out!
I got a good chuckle out of that and told him if the boat came with two drain plugs he had a sale!
That story was awesome...Thanks!!!
Combat Vet VN
D.A.V Life Member