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...stirring up the settlement what ever that means .
sediment....the loose bottom strata.
...stirring up the settlement what ever that means .
I went Jetskiing yesterday. I had finished for the day when I tied off to the dock and went to get my truck. As I'm backing down this ONE vehicle wide ramp, some out of town idiot starts trying to squeeze in his 21' flats boat. I stop, trailer now in the water and ready for me to pull the jetski on, and tell him to look at the sign, it's a SINGLE vehicle ramp. He gets all pissed off an floors it back up the ramp and his whole freakin boat comes off the trailer onto the ramp. If it had been anything else than a flats boat, he would have done great harm to it. But his lower unit is trashed. I called the county forestry service to let them know a guy had snapped his lower unit off on the ramp and oil was going into the water. (This is a highly protected sanctuary for the Brown Pelican). By the time I got up to HWY 98, about four slow miles due to a National Park and a school, the Forestry truck with a county police car were turning onto the road.
That dude just had a very bad day due to his trying to rush shit and being an idiot. I wonder how much it's gonna cost him to have a lower unit replaced on a Yamaha 150 outboard.
Edit: Not to mention his fines.
I sometimes hang out at the ramps just for laffs. When I lived in SoCal, I used to boat at Lake Mead in Nevada all the time. Before Overton branch marina closed due to low water, the ramps were really treacherous to launch. Some guys were backing down the ramp with a huge boat, dual outdrives, I yelled at them that the lower units were down. One of the dudes told me to mind my own ****ing business. They proceeded to back down, snapped off both outdrives. They were more pissed when I started laughing at them, hey I told you dumbasses but you were too damn smart to listen to me.
Yea I actually like it when someone tells me something isn't right . one time I was backing up jet skis getting ready to dunk em someone noticed I didn't have bilge plugs screwed in and told me . Well I was appreciative
See...here's where ignorance of the subject could get you killed. A depth finder doesn't work fast enough....ie...it doesn't look ahead...it looks down. At 40...you hit a submerged tree trunk...rock...whatever...it's gonna be painful.
And IBR?....c'mon....if you can drive....and pay attention to your surroundings....IBR is just a sales gimmick.
Well passing through a area you plan to ride 1st using a depth finder is better then nothing . It's all about doing what you can to reduce by by no means eliminate risk .
I threw my wife off at about 45 mph last weekend. Needless to say, she was done after that. She went swimming and was sliding all over the seat, I cut hard left and then immediate right and she launched to the left, almost dragging me with her. She said it definitely hurt, I was silently laughing my ass off.