Bungs N Boats
Submitted by shammy on Fri, 2010-03-05 15:00
A friend of a friend grabs his son and borrows a mates boat which is named the "SS loser"
Here's the email.
"Hey xxx (omitted derogatory term)
Funny story........... Well i hope you think its funny. Wasnt really at the time, well not for me, but for onlookers im sure it was!
So ive gone to your house yesterday with Dane and picked up the loser, alls good. We tow it down to the boat ramp with the new towbar on the captiva which is cool because you can use the reversing camera to line the ball up with the trailor hitch.........but i digress.
I reverse the boat halfway down the ramp with Dane in the car all excited and then stop, get out and put the bung in the back of the boat. Now you have probably realised that i have said bung and not bungs, for i did not see the second bung hole which i am sure you know exists.
So i get back into the car and reverse the loser down into the water, get the boat off and take it to the jetty and tie it off. I then get back into the car, park it up in the car park, get Dane out and all our gear and start to wander down to the jetty with Dane getting more and more excited. I then reach the jetty, look into the boat and see 8 inches of water in the bottom of it with the empty fuel tank floating around. HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!
So im cursing you thinking that you have set me up with a boat with a fucking hole in it!
I grab Dane up off the jetty and bolt for the car with him going whats wrong daddy, why cant we go in Daves boat daddy, and im telling him that there is water in the boat and we need to get it out.
I get to the car, chuck him in the back and speed back down to the ramp with my phone ringing the whole time and trying to answer that as well. Now i dont mind saying that i was a little bit flustered at this point........
So i get the trailor in the water as far as i can, jump out and pull the boat over to it, which is quite heavy now due to all the water in it, still cursing you the whole time. I get it onto the trailor after a bit of a struggle, drive the car halfway up the ramp, stop and get out and see the water pissing out of the second bung hole and start to wet myself laughing at what a fucking idiot i am.........
After all the water was drained out, i put the bung in, backed the boat back in and we started again. All was good from then on and we had a great day.
So thanks for lending us the loser, and i hope you got a bit of a giggle out of the story.
We've all done it but it's still a great laugh...........
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alfred
Posts: 3097
Date Joined: 12/01/07
Why can they just build
Why can they just build boats that don't need bungs?
Rod P
Posts: 725
Date Joined: 20/05/08
They do there called boston
They do there called boston whalers...You should check them out.
jersey
Posts: 393
Date Joined: 12/06/08
It was Called
SS Titanic, it did'nt sink cause the bung was left out ,it was the bastards wanting ice in their
Whiskey-jersey
carnarvonite
Posts: 8668
Date Joined: 24/07/07
Bungs
Had a 24 foot Star ali boat while living at Two Rocks and never had to pull the bungs out.Come 4 oclock and the sea breeze is well and truly in so decide its time to put 4 full size craypots in.
Back down the ramp and son [14] Jeff drives the boat off and picks me up from the end of the jetty.Head out of the marina and were about 500 metres outside the wall when the Mercruiser starts coughing and spluttering, chuck the pots off the engine hatch to have a look and there is water spraying everywhere, open the deck hatch and its about 18 inches deep.On goes the bilge pump and round we go heading straight back in as fast as we can.
Got it up to 5 knots flat out and realised that if we stop its going to go sink so put Jeff on the wheel and make a pass close to the end of the jetty so I can jump across without stopping.I jumped on to the jetty, ran to the car and backed the trailer down for Jeff to drive the boat on.Thank heavens it was a drive on trailer and I taught Jeff to drive a boat years before.Straight on the trailer in one shot,cable and chain on and drove it up to the top of the ramp.Had a beer and a chat with Kiwi for 20 minutes and the water was still fairly pouring out of both bungs.
Jeff will never take the bungs out of my boat ever again
Faulkner Family
Posts: 18026
Date Joined: 11/03/08
great stories , as mentioned
great stories , as mentioned we have all done it. our first boat , 18foot fraser, we had that happen, i launched the boat while my wife was holding it to the jetty while i parked the car, got back to the ramp with Sandy yelling to me to get the trailor back as the boat was filling with water. got the boat back on the trailor and thankfully it wasnt a busy day down there as it took over half an hour for the water to drain. they dont take long to fill up but seem to take forever to empty
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
sea-kem
Posts: 14981
Date Joined: 30/11/09
I've been told some grease
I've been told some grease around the bung holes will stop the water getting in.(serious)
Love the West!
wazzbat
Posts: 977
Date Joined: 19/01/10
I think we've all done it at least once!
I remember taking a mate out in my Dad's old 15ft Savage. It had bungs and they were in. I always checked (sometimes) lol. But after fishing all day out of Hillarys, I thought "there is something wrong with the boat today". It was running really slow and sluggish and I was finding it hard to get it up on the plane.
After we pulled it out and on to the trailer later on and took the bungs out, water came pissing out. It was still coming out when we got home to then Wanneroo. I had a quick taste of the water and it was fresh, not salty. Turns out, when it rains, if the boat isn't covered, it WILL fill up with water. Ooops!
After that, we always left the bungs out while at home. I think once or twice we left the bungs out before launching but managed to get them in before too much water came in.
Easliy done!
Luckily we have a self draining deck now and there is a bung but it is for the underfloor area and very rairly needs to be taken out.
I fish for the future - Cause I can't bloody catch anything!
matttld25
Posts: 35
Date Joined: 01/05/08
Ah yes the old bung trick. I
Ah yes the old bung trick.
I had a 14ft hobie catamaran that was set up on the lake i lived on ,all i had to do was to set the sail up and go ,One light breeze day i grabed my 4 year old daughter and my wife and we set sail did not get far from the jetty and could not understand why we were not moveing faster,all of a sudden it dawned on me that we were taking on water with no power and no steering we went under .
luckely we were in water i could stand up in my wife and daughter waded back to shore ,finnaly got the boat back and on shore.
As said i left the boat set up ,i always drained the boat when i finnished sailing and put the bungs back in ,so some fool has come and stolen them and i did not check ,has taught me a lesson though .i now always do a last look before i put both my boats in.
Dale
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Date Joined: 13/09/05
I've got 5 bungs to worry
I've got 5 bungs to worry about on my boat, but you'll start getting wet feet pretty quickly if you miss the 4 big ones.
Cheers
Dale
"Just because you are a Character, Doesn't mean you have Character."
Mr Wolf
Freo_Boi
Posts: 266
Date Joined: 23/02/10
Glad to know im not the only one,thats had white knuckle terror!
Best one was on my mates boats maiden voyage. I was fairly new to boating and didnt even think about a bung and neither did he obviously.
Any way we heading out going great till we decided to drop the craypots in. Pull nice and close to a reef but we didnt bait up, so i was baiting up head down ass up not paying attention to what was going on, then we drop the pots over and decide to go for a tailor bash.
Then he tries to take off, The whole boat proceeds to pull this huuuge mono looking at the outboard im going no way 90 horses could do that even for a 2 stroke.. I look at my mate and do the usual observation when its too late and your 2 mile out.
"Did You put the bung in"?
His whole complexion went ghost white and he didnt even need to talk to give me an answer, i race up and grab the rail and hung on while he was gunning it and couldnt steer going slightly forward over his craypot lines. Then he realised i think from that moment what trim does, moments before we wrapped the rope around the prop he lifted the motor and we started to gain momentum and the rope slid under the skeg.
Flooring it all the way back home his colour slowly went from ghost white to bright red..
After a few weeks he asked me what he should name his boat.. I go why dont you call it Bunghead! he didnt like the idea. I dont know why?