Boating Trip

[Deleted User]

This is how I like to carry my boat when we go boating. The girls ride along on top so we can get going quicker.

MikeWA

Its a wonder any of our parents survived their youth. Stuff like that, old trucks and the old stories of double dating to dances, passing a bottle around on the way, no seatbelts, drunk as lords- Just good clean fun, I guess.

hudsontech

I think maybe one thing that saved us back-in-the-day was that there wasn't all that much traffic on the roads to start with. Plus nobody went out driving much at night either so after dark there was hardly anybody else on the road.

Yeah, we had wrecks - and some bad ones. Two of my high school classmates spent several weeks in hospital and even longer in bandages and casts after running a stop sign around 9pm one night - and a big delivery truck, late in his runs, T-boned them at an intersection. So it happened.

Maybe there's truth in the saying "God protects fools and angels". Well, we were young and foolish then - now we're just old.



That's a neat picture - wonder if the girls helped hoist that boat up there!!!



Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

Memphis, TN

Aaron D. IL

Yeah safety Nazi's make us wear helemets for everything including j@#$#@-off Remember kids it's only fun until someone gets hurt......then it's halarious. LOL

Nice pic.

[Deleted User]

I think that was an early accessory sun shade, I'm going to get my catalog out and check.

Jon B

A sudden stop by the car, and the snapping of the ropes, would have made for an amusing situation.

[Deleted User]

Exactly Jon that is how I launched the boat. Needless to say the girls did not go boating with me again.

[Deleted User]

Rick ya got to hold yer breath for at least 2 mins.....

Huddy42

I told you the brakes on the '35 would not be good enough to stop as you launch the boat off the roof.

RL Chilton

Oh, man. What a picture. Shoulda used juice brakes . . .

hudsontech

Huddy42 wrote:

I told you the brakes on the '35 would not be good enough to stop as you launch the boat off the roof.

Wonder where the boat went!!!



That picture reminds me of a sight I saw way back. Around 1958-1959 I was stationed in Kingsville, TX, over by Corpus Christi. One of the guys knew a girl in Houston who had a couple of friends. So 3 of us piled in the car and boogied to Houston for a weekend.

We were out at the some lake near Houston, sitting on the beach enjoying the sun and the girls when 4 great pretenders in a convertible towing a boat and had water skis in the boat. They got the boat in the water just fine. They put the skis on the sand with the tips just in the water (now don't get ahead of me here). Three guys get in the boat - one straps on the skis. They toss him the tow line - must have near 75 feet of line in that. (You can see this one coming, can't you). Guy on the skis grabs the tow line handle, yells "Go man, go!!!" They went, he went too - right on his face about 10 feet into the water. The skis stayed on the beach. Last we saw of them they were driving off, boat in tow and the poor shnook on the skis sitting in the back seat with both arms up in the air. Presumably they were headed for the nearest hospital. Not funny - but hilarious just the same.



Hudsonly,

Alex Burr

Memphis, TN

Browniepetersen

Aaron D. IL wrote:

Yeah safety Nazi's make us wear helemets for everything including j@#$#@-off Remember kids it's only fun until someone gets hurt......then it's halarious. LOL

Nice pic.

I have been a Safety Professional for the past 40 years in the Aerospace business. I am also retired (six years active 16 Reserve) from the United States Air Force. I cannot tell you how much the comment above offends me. There is no place on our Forum for this type of insensitivity and particularlly trying to pass it off as humor. Shame on you!!! :mad: