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01/01/2021 07:58PM  
I thought the 3rd mishap was a myth! Boat mishaps
 
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straighthairedcurly
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01/01/2021 08:29PM  
Oh my, you led me down the rabbit hole. I couldn't stop watching these...lol.
 
tumblehome
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01/02/2021 07:07AM  
I started watching the boat mishaps and ended up watching a soviet motorcycle restoration.
Down the hole....

Tom
 
01/02/2021 10:52AM  
reminds me of the song Red Neck Yacht Club
 
analyzer
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01/02/2021 01:34PM  
The one near the end, where one yacht ran up the back of the other, didn't look good. I hope that man didn't die.
 
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.
 
Jackfish
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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!” :)
 
01/02/2021 07:03PM  
The dude cruising with his trailer strapped on is too much!
 
01/03/2021 08:25AM  
fadersup: "The dude cruising with his trailer strapped on is too much!"

That's the one I had heard of years ago and didn't think anybody could do such a thing!
 
analyzer
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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?
 
analyzer
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01/03/2021 10:23AM  
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.
 
analyzer
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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.
 
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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.
 
01/03/2021 11:14AM  
that all makes sense , he did look like he was enjoying the ride.
 
andym
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01/03/2021 08:03PM  
Thanks. I was wondering if the trailer was something like that. I guess you could have a winch or just hand power to haul the boat out at the other end.
 
jhb8426
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01/04/2021 05:34PM  
Some of those boat fails videos are a stitch and LOL funny. Others are somewhat cringe worthy watching people possibly seriously injured.
 
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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