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<blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 4004675" data-attributes="member: 5412">When I was a kid, my grandma fished literally every day of the week. She bought a boat finally and invited my sister and I to go to the lake with her for the inaugural ride. She backed into the boat ramp pretty good as she was a farm girl, took off the winch rope and tried to launch. She danged near had the back of the car in the water and the boat still wouldn&#039;t get off the trailer. Tried the power launch where one backs down quickly and hits the brakes to unload that way. Still no success. Guy walks over after watching and says, you might want to remove those straps off the back of the boat, and walked away. It worked! She fished even when she couldn&#039;t walk without a walker, driving up to the old marina at Lake Ponca which was rock walls and fishing from the front seat of her car by sitting sideways in the seat. The folks at the bait shop knew her horn when she beeped, coming out to get her minnow bucket and get her bait. She was a hoot. I have a zillion stories about that old gal. As a boat owner of around 40 years or so, I still see folks doing that as well as forgetting to put the drain plugs in. There is a youtube video out there of some young guys with a table at a launch ramp on a lake during a holiday offering to launch/load your boat for a beer. They got lots of beers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dennishoddy, post: 4004675, member: 5412"] When I was a kid, my grandma fished literally every day of the week. She bought a boat finally and invited my sister and I to go to the lake with her for the inaugural ride. She backed into the boat ramp pretty good as she was a farm girl, took off the winch rope and tried to launch. She danged near had the back of the car in the water and the boat still wouldn't get off the trailer. Tried the power launch where one backs down quickly and hits the brakes to unload that way. Still no success. Guy walks over after watching and says, you might want to remove those straps off the back of the boat, and walked away. It worked! She fished even when she couldn't walk without a walker, driving up to the old marina at Lake Ponca which was rock walls and fishing from the front seat of her car by sitting sideways in the seat. The folks at the bait shop knew her horn when she beeped, coming out to get her minnow bucket and get her bait. She was a hoot. I have a zillion stories about that old gal. As a boat owner of around 40 years or so, I still see folks doing that as well as forgetting to put the drain plugs in. There is a youtube video out there of some young guys with a table at a launch ramp on a lake during a holiday offering to launch/load your boat for a beer. They got lots of beers. [/QUOTE]

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