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01/02/2021 04:25PM
When I worked for the Fish and Wildlife Service the next district south was working on their airboat while it was sitting on the trailer and not connected to a vehicle. The operator revved up the engine and boat and trailer took off across the parking lot until it ran into something on the other side of the lot.
May the rivers be crooked and winding, and your portages lonesome, leading to the most amazing view.
01/02/2021 06:19PM
As a motorboat owner, these videos raise the hair on the back of my neck. Yikes...
Words of wisdom from a guy at a gas dock several years ago (and he was not directing this to me): “Never approach a dock faster than you want to hit it!” :)
Words of wisdom from a guy at a gas dock several years ago (and he was not directing this to me): “Never approach a dock faster than you want to hit it!” :)
"Keep close to Nature's heart, yourself; and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean." ~ John Muir
01/03/2021 10:12AM
fadersup: "The dude cruising with his trailer strapped on is too much!"
There's no way anyone is THAT stupid. I'd like to know what the back story was. He must have wanted to transport the boat and trailer some place.
That's lake Shuswap. Maybe the way his cabin is situated, there is no good place to park his trailer, so he takes it from the landing, to the back side of his cabin, where he can park it on the shoreline?
01/03/2021 10:30AM
analyzer: "Maybe he left the trailer attached 'just for clicks'. Doing a little search, apparently this isn't an isolated case. Others have seen the same thing."
An internet article written last may (2020) said that video of the boater, with the trailer still attached, had been clicked on 6 million times. I guess if he did it for clicks, mission accomplished. Even if an advertiser was giving him a penny a click, it would have still been $60,000.
01/03/2021 10:34AM
fadersup: "The dude cruising with his trailer strapped on is too much!"
Since the story aired, people have reached out to Global News to say although not a common sight, it’s one way to move a boat trailer to a remote area, and that it’s not as bad as it looks.
Said one person: “For those of us with island cottages, it’s a perfectly sensible way to getting a trailer out to a remote location.”
Another said: “This isn’t unusual and I’ve seen this in marinas as a way to get a trailer to a property that you can’t drive to.”
Added another: ” Doing it on purpose. See the extra straps near the windows, that’s how you move a trailer to an island.”
an Island cottage makes a ton of sense.
01/04/2021 06:34PM
When I was doing creel surveys on Crane Lake in 2005 I saw a guy do this same thing with the trailer connected to the boat. I was told by a local he was heading to the big island on Crane..I think Bear Island. Unusual indeed. The shenanigans that happen at boat ramps here on West Lake Okoboji (Iowa) on Saturday and Sunday afternoons would quickly exceed the maximum time limit allowed on the youtube.
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