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<blockquote data-quote="Allen Gamble" data-source="post: 485522" data-attributes="member: 4956">Sometimes you gotta iron out those wrinkles in the worst of situations. My first watercraft was a pontoon and learning to launch/land on the Missouri In Bis. It wasn't busy so I tried to have the wife back down the trailer... she couldn't get it which was fine, but got really mad... jumped out of the truck, left it in gear (drive), and said &quot;F IT!&quot; while walking away with the truck/toon idling forward.Lesson two. I tried to land my pontoon solo with my dogs in the truck on a non-busy, hot as hell sunday afternoon at a local lake. Dogs locked me out of the truck with the pontoon on the trailer, while on the boat ramp. Tried everything to get them to unlock it with their paws. Thankfully there were relatives on the lake who called AAA to have me unlocked. Truck idled for 45min with the dogs in it&nbsp; while stuck on the ramp.Lesson three. The latch on my current bow line somehow doesn't always latch when launching. I've sent it off the trailer a few times with the bow line coming off the hook and had to swim after the boat. Luckily, cold water doesn't bother me, but I still haven't fully learned this lesson and attention to detail nips me in the butt.I'm lucky enough to have had a majority of my mistakes happen when it wasn't busy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Allen Gamble, post: 485522, member: 4956"] Sometimes you gotta iron out those wrinkles in the worst of situations. My first watercraft was a pontoon and learning to launch/land on the Missouri In Bis. It wasn't busy so I tried to have the wife back down the trailer... she couldn't get it which was fine, but got really mad... jumped out of the truck, left it in gear (drive), and said "F IT!" while walking away with the truck/toon idling forward. Lesson two. I tried to land my pontoon solo with my dogs in the truck on a non-busy, hot as hell sunday afternoon at a local lake. Dogs locked me out of the truck with the pontoon on the trailer, while on the boat ramp. Tried everything to get them to unlock it with their paws. Thankfully there were relatives on the lake who called AAA to have me unlocked. Truck idled for 45min with the dogs in it while stuck on the ramp. Lesson three. The latch on my current bow line somehow doesn't always latch when launching. I've sent it off the trailer a few times with the bow line coming off the hook and had to swim after the boat. Luckily, cold water doesn't bother me, but I still haven't fully learned this lesson and attention to detail nips me in the butt. I'm lucky enough to have had a majority of my mistakes happen when it wasn't busy. [/QUOTE]

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