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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Retired-Guy" data-source="post: 304693" data-attributes="member: 1735">1)  The first morning at Indian Hills, wife and I were just past the no-wake zone and decided it kind of looked like rain but oh shit, all the foul weather gear is still in a back sitting on the back seat of the pickup.  Turn around, dock the boat, and retrieve the bag.  Get back out past the no-wake zone, hit the throttle, and realize the boat is not coming up on plane normally.  Oh, oh!  Forgot to put the friggin' plug in.  Slowed back down and watch water coming over the floor boards in the back of the boat.  Hit the switch to run both bilge pumps which was a mistake since the 5 amp fuse they are both on blew immediately.  Head back to the dock, race for the truck and trailer, and load the boat back up.  Wife and I are getting rather pissy about then so we abort the fish mission for the day and head back to the camper.  Saving grace was while other sat out on the water in the rain most of the day, we sat in comfortable chairs under the awing and listened to the pitter patter of rain while sipping on a martini or two or three!2)  The next day things went a bit better but after we trailered the boat, my brother (who was fishing by himself) shows up at the dock so I offer to get his pickup and trailer for him.  He had a nice Lund tiller boat and the trailer has a Drotto latch.  It didn't latch the first attempt so he backed up a ways and gave it the onion.  Unfortunately, he wasn't lined up properly and hit it on the side and bent the crap out of the mounting bracket.  No way to even manually winch the boat up with those things so he beached his boat and drug the trailer to Garrison and left it over night.  Next day the boat shop heated things up and got it straight enough where he could use it again.  3)  We get home after several days of camping and I stupidly close the end gate on the pickup and proceed to drive away from the 5th wheel.  Guess what....I now have a new end gate!  To rub salt in the wounds, it bent one of the landing gear jacks on the camper so I had to replace it.  $500 deductible on the pickup and about $150 for the jack and things are good as new.4)  Fished last week with a buddy and his brother using his brother's boat.  Put in at Steinkes and drug worms around for a half hour or so off the west point of the bay with no luck.  Decided to deep troll across to Mallard Island.  About half way across, the old Merc coughed and died.  From then on it would start but only run for a few seconds.  No other boats within 2 miles could we see.  Turned around and prayed that the electric would get us back.  Long story short, it was a long trip but we made it.  Told him he needed to invest in a kicker.</blockquote>

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