Hillarys ramp
Submitted by notyalc on Fri, 2015-11-27 15:12
Bad day for Whittleys. This one as we were going in and another Whittley was towed to the jetty as we were pulling out.
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Cold Feet
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Date Joined: 04/08/15
Slipped off on Launch, or come in too fast?
Ha Ha - s'pose its not funny if its yours hey..
...another reminder to keep the chain on until the boats in the water?
Mate of mine dropped his Haynes Hunter half way down Point Peron slipway last year - spoils the day just like that.. broke the skeg of a new Suzuki motor, but was repaired fairly quickly.. worst was is that he was on the boat and his wife was reversing into the water..Fakn funny, but not if it's your rig..
Cheers,
Cold Feet
Bruce
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Date Joined: 11/04/12
Looks like it sunk with the
Looks like it sunk/ took on water with the rescue boat in the photo behind it and it seems to be sitting on the bottom! Either way not an ideal situation hope everything turns out okay for the bloke!
Ashen
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Date Joined: 22/03/13
Bungs
What causes a boat to lean like that? Forgot the bungs?
A fish in the hand is worth 10 in the water!
DTrain
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Date Joined: 10/02/12
Being an I/O wouldn't help.
Being an I/O wouldn't help. The engine probably had a saltwater bath.
Jackfrost80
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Date Joined: 07/05/12
Hard way to learn a lesson
Hard way to learn a lesson about the virtues of the ol' safety chain but let's hope they also forgot to put the bungs in rather than copped a cracked hull. Horrid angle to launch the boat in any case.
Officially off the Pies bandwagon
carnarvonite
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Towed in
Was towed in , rescue boat in the background.
Could have ben anything, bellows leaking , exhaust manifold cracked, hit the bottom, who knows?
Reefmonkey
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Date Joined: 22/09/08
Missing bung strikes again
You guys must've come in just two minutes before us. Sea Rescue guys said it was no bung. poor guys, everyone has done it but hopefully not to that extent.
Think they pumped out as much as they could and couldn't get it all the way up the trailer, towed it up half on and lashed down to drain it but blew atleast one tyre with all the weight on the rear axle hauling it out.
Poor guys all looked pretty new too.
Dave J.
meglodon
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Date Joined: 17/06/10
But for the grace of god go I
Really feel for the owner, not the best of things to have happen to your boat, and then have a tyre blow when recovering it. All boaties I suggest have had narrow escapes of one kind or another with their boats at recovery or launch.
bellony
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Date Joined: 27/01/10
Guess the tub weighs more
Guess the tub weighs more than 2.5T, but it wouldn't be the appropriate time to tell them they should think about a legal tow vehicle as well!
Fathom
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Date Joined: 18/04/08
I heard that they hired an
I heard that they hired an XXXL hooker for a trip and she fell over onto the starboard side
Dan_9
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Date Joined: 10/12/14
Engine was running too. Mate
Engine was running too. Mate runs the boat shop it's now at and she threw 2 pots :(
ranmar850
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Date Joined: 12/08/12
Ouch
hard lesson to learn--just because you can afford one, doesn't mean you are automatically clued up--and yes, I left a bung out, once--UB 19, you can see it through the rear access hatch, and I was able to plane it out. Now the last check before the boat backs down the ramp.
Olliej
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Date Joined: 27/08/12
good 3+ tons being pulled by
good 3+ tons being pulled by a prado...bravo
Broome lad
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Date Joined: 16/11/15
Some
People have all the gear but no idea .