@@brianvincavage7626 😂 it happens to the best. Similar in my experience. I was fishing the trestles on lake pontchatrain in a 15.5ft aluminum boat. The stern hit a piling and knocked the old bilge pump seal out. I won’t hide that it scared the hell out of me.
I think muskie and walleye are more likely to have won, to my knowledge that like freezes over in the winter and largemouth or smallmouth can't survive
You don’t have time to scoop the water out it comes in faster than you can take it out is what my dad always tells me he’s tried that offshore didn’t work his offshore boat sunk in about 30 seconds
Been there, done that!!! And I'm a living witness to what some of these guys are saying. Start the motor, turn on the pump, and head for the shore. We put the plug in, and headed back out to keep fishing. Lesson learned!
If your ever taking water on best options remove the pkug if you can get to in and floor it to high ground best advice i can gkve i personally have 3 bilge pumps 4 battery's each with seperate circuits i also carry a hand pump..cant be to safe wirst thing every is not being able to stop a leak..breaking down isnt that bad sinking is bad especially if your 50 miles offshore in international waters.
@@digger_jon2778 You can also install an autobailer. I've raced sailboats for years and these are common on boats like Lightnings that are high performance and designed not to sink
Boating is very fun, but very dangerous. Always go through a checklist before launching including all of the legally required necessities and anything that can help you out on the water. Always carry anchors, spare plug, spare prop and prop wrench, small toolkit, extra spark plugs (if its a 2 stroke), etc. And have a plan for action for anything that can happen. And check the bilge every half hour or so if you're unfamiliar with the boat. Most boats seep a little water especially when they get older, but know your limitations and plan accordingly. Happy boating.
This has happened to me. Luckily I had a very experienced passenger with me. And he immediately jumped in the drivers seat told me to seat down and full throttle sent it. He turned the bilge on and then stopped after a few minutes. With all his clothes on. Took the plug, cut the motor off, and jumped in and plugged it. I have never forgotten a plug ever since. I’m glad he was there that day. Because I don’t think I would’ve been that prepared. But now I know!
@@jessefox7005 man I’ve got a 2018 tracker now. Beautiful boat! And I go out every weekend. There’s sooo much into operating a boat. I highly, highly recommend taking a safety course. I learned so much from it. Because I’m telling you. If you’re not careful. You’ll capsize the boat. Or unload it wrong and drain it. Or burn the motor up. There’s so many things. But once you get the hang of it. It becomes second nature.
That boat won't sink with just the plug out...I have a 201...I know for a fact...something else had to happen. Big hole in the hull or something. I have fished that lake and it's big water
I had this happen just yesterday. I'm a new boater but no fool. I noticed the boat felt heavy when trying to accelerate and was off to one side more. Then I realized I forgot to put the plug in. It was too deep below the water to reach so I quickly turned the bilge pump on and started driving just fast enough to keep the back end up while pulling the upper deck drain plugs where the scupper valves are. It was enough to get me back to the boat launch grab the trailer pull the boat up onto it and let all the water continue to drain out. Then I was back in the water and back to fishing. Can't lie, it was pretty scary.
@@aicapitan3279the plug was obviously already out…they probably had too much water weight to run the boat on plane and empty the water…and a bilge is useless with that much if ur not on plane already
Ok captain, before you count your plunder try submerging your ships starter battery in water, while it’s underwater see if it will start your enormous vessel.
@@Mr.KingsThings @kylekelly1167 I was thinking back to when I was growing up on the water, but here in my state kids 13 & under have to be wearing them unless inside an enclosed cabin. Where they're filming is in Florida & I think there it's age 6 & below. Either way, as a mom my kids would be wearing them especially through the inlet. They have the one's now that are so thin you can't tell a person has it on until they pull the inflate cord. But you're right Kyle, here we do have to have a life vest for each person on board (stored under their seat.) We get pulled over all the time for a vest check, which isn't necessarily a bad thing I guess.
Apparently nobody told them when the boat starts sinking to start the motor adjust the trim to ride as high as possible and move just fast enough so it lifts itself back up, and as long as there's not a large gouge or hole in the hull it should be good to make it to shore. Of course if you have a large hole in the hull you're probably just going to rip it apart more but it's still worth a shot at that point.
As a coast guardsmen, the most disturbing part of this is they are not wearing jackets. Water temp is probably 50-60, so even tredding, with water over your shoulders you have less then hour before hypothermia kicks in. With jacket, you have 6-8 hours.
Idk man I grew up swimming in cold water for more than an hour at a time but I also could tread water longer than the many coastguards I know so maybe it’s just a training issue I suppose it’s also relevant I naturally have a 97 degree body temp but you would think I would get cold faster
My first boat was an old aluminum boat that had wings on the back that reminded me of the Batmobile boat 😂..I let my 10 y/o son drive it back to the boat ramp. He was driving as fast as that old Johnson 35 hp would go. I told he to slow down and he shut the motor off. A large wave of water came up over the rear of the boat..I yelled "GET TO LAND, GET TO LAND! He started the boat back up but by then the second wave had filled the back of the boat and it was going under. You could hear that pour old Johnson motor running as it went under the water fighting for its last breath as the rest of the boat continued to sink. ol Johnson got us close enough to shore to where the front bow of the boat looked like a nose poking up for air 😂. Our boat seats and takleboxes and small ice chest was floating. My son was crying as I was gathered up everything floating 😂. I was lucky an old man with wisdom was there to calm me down and talk me through the process of retrieving the boat. I backed my Datson 4X4 down to the water and he had a long strap. My truck was able to pull the boat to the bank of the lake where we alowed the bildge pump to pump out water. The boat started rising in the lake and went into the water and was able to load the boat on my trailer by hand. We put everything back in the boat and learned a lot that day. The boat went under because the back where the motor is attached is open with nothing to help with"back wash". So we learned you couldn't just come to a sudden stop without waves coming into the back of the boat. We had to slowly come to a stop. We got the ol boat home, I found some instructions on what to do if your motor was submerged. Pull the spark plugs, lay it on each side, crank the engine over to spit all the water out of each cylinder. Pour alcohol in each cylinder and crank the motor over to spit all the liquid out. Spray some gas mixed with oil into each cylinder. Put motor back on boat. Clean the spark plug with wire brush, reinstall them, spray some gas in the carboretors, connect garden hose to water pump inlet holes and crank engine over while spraying gas into each carburetor and it started right up.😁 We put fresh gas in the gas tank and took her back to the lake. I left her attached to the trailer while backing the boat far enough into the lake for the motors pump inlet holes to be under water. Cranked it up and let her run for a while to allow the oil from the fresh mixture of oil and gas to relube all internal parts. She ran for several years afterwards and the whole boat was sold because I wanted a real bass boat
Folks, please read, answer the SOS! Just rope the bow to the stern of the running boat and start traveling. As the derelict boat rises a wee-bit, the water will start to flow OUT of the leak. We saved a family with a huge leak in their out-drive boot one Sunday. Watching people just film it always sinks my heart. Be kind, rewind, Dan
Clarification: Water will try to seek level. Exception: if they hit something and cracked the FRONT of their hull it MIGHT might be lost. Have a knife ready if you're panicky. One thing I have done was install a reducing bushing in my drain plug. Reducing the 3/4" hole (1/2 in pipe) to 3/8" (1/4 in pipe), will reduce the inflow to bilge-pump manageable levels in case of an accident. Boat-lauching can be high-pressure. Especially when traffic, rug-rats, and estrogen are involved.
In case I needed to clarify: 1) A SHARP knife. 2) The drain-plug bushing: Remember, you left it out to let rain water drain. Rain water will drain just fine through a smaller dia. hole. 3) Yes, estrogen. 4) Their bellow was split wide open. They were going down fast. And, I bet, to this day, they speak of us fondly. Dan et al. Respectfully, Dan
For those of us over the age of 45-50, we wouldn't think twice to help someone out, especially if they're in real danger. But, today, if you try and protect someone, you're liable to wind up in jail. American society is completely broken. It's beyond heartbreaking for those of us who grew up in a different America.
Looks like a good scheme of insurance fraud to me, had someone to pick you up right on que and “record” the event, i wonder how they got the second boat? 🤣 Probably another insurance fraud scheme.
Not an issue in a marina is its required all the time...I wouldn't take a bass boat in the great lak3s though, and yeah I know this is a feeder lake of them but if it's on it, I'm betting it was on the Inland Seas of North America too
Take a close look , they're right there floating away as the boat goes down. if that other boat wasn't there they would have earned their Darwin Awards
I had three because I bought 2 spares the problem was that I never actually used the other two and when shit hit the fan I was still fucked because guess what..., They are not all compatible. I got lucky and made it to Shore 🙈 so embarrassing!!!
yea but i have been out several times as a kid on someone else's boat, and once when I was 12 as my friend and i woudl go out on my fathers 12 ft aluninum, and in our case it was a halibut that knocked the plug out and over the edge of the boat, and we were able to get back to the boat launch every time just by moving fast for awhile, then fill the hole with anything you have it doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to slow it down when going slower later, but at speed almost all boats will empty out. and then bail the little bit that comes in while heading back to shore. That time when I was 12, my friend and I who was also 12 were all the way down an inlet in ocean water that was way rougher then this, and we had no problem getting back despite it taking us over 3 hours at top speed to get back. At speed the water just drain out, and just sit at the back of the boat to ensure at speed there is just enough weight to keep the water out of the bow. Seen it at least 3-4 times in my life, and never was worried until you stopped the engine, etc. Just as soon as you see water get the engines moving to protect from flooding... that's not hard to do... There is almost no excuse for this unless you have simultaneous motor failure, and you spring a leak. But that seems so unlikely....
I remember once this guy said he got crap for having a printed checklist in a plastic sleeve with dry erase marker to check off the steps. As usual he has the last laugh.
@@Nathlete_ out mechanic told us we they put the plugs back in but they only ended up putting one of them in . We didn’t realize until water started coming through the floor . my dad told us to sit the fuck down and hold on . We lost hats, wake boards fell off , we hit a wave and my phone bounced off the seat and went like 6 feet in the air . We we’re going 50mph with water falling going over the seats but after about 4 minutes we got to shore and my dad just basically drove it onto a beach . Saved the 200k boat tho
My dad grew up on lake Sinclair and has told me he has 3 boats at the bottom of the lake. One was from another boat colliding into his boat. The others were rogue waves and he didn’t have someone there watching him sink instead of pulling his boat to safety!!! He loved his John boats and once those fill with water your in trouble. After the third boat going down he decided to buy a Boston wailer because they’re almost impossible to sink!
I’ve lived by lake st Clair my whole live and always have had a boat on the lake. I would never take a flat bottom John boat out on the lake. The waves can get pretty damn big. Espically during the weekend when there’s alot of boats out and you get big waves from all the boats. Now a whaler is the way to go, they are literally unsinkable. My buddy had an 18ft center counsel and we used to take that thing straight across the lake every weekend in the summer to go party at harsens island and no matter how big the waves were the boat was always fine.
Brings back memories. On my honeymoon, my best man and his wife took my bass boat out fishing. The boat's engine was larger than necessary for the boat. A barge came by and my friend's wife says, " Hey honey, were takimg in water." He ignored her and the boat flipped. All the other boats on the lake came to their rescue. He called and said, "Hey buddy, I sank your boat." It didnt sink to the bottom though because of an air pocket. He had it hauled to his house, spent days cleaning every part of the boat. When I got home, the boat looked sparkling show room condition and ran like a gem.
😂 well not quite buts some truth to that , I have owned an old sea ray for more than 15 years and all I could say it’s been great other than some maintenance
@@elguaguero23 I’ve been pretty lucky I’m 57 and I’ve owned bass boats since I was 18. The worst thing you can do to a outboard boat motor is not use it on a regular basis
@@nagazinafireworks7594 right? Like just last week i went ice fishing and drove right beside the charred remains of a snowmobile. They probably wish they were at work LOL
This happened to me in my speed boat. I open it wide open and turned the pump on. I made a mad dash until the pump had got enough water out then I put the plug in and went back to the ramp and took the boat out of the water and drained the rest out of the boat. Then went back out and had fun!
@@Mika-ph6ku doesn't matter if you know how to swim if you slip and knock yourself unconscious...or get yourself tangled up in mooring line as the boat is sinking...
@@W8RIT1 and take note of the fact that neither of those scenarios occurred in this short. Too many worryworts in today's society. What if what if what if, all I ever hear...
@@Mika-ph6ku yet my potential scenarios DO HAPPEN frequently and continuously despite best efforts to inform...and among the others we find you. You instruct others to "take note" as you ignore ... You also don't have to "worry" if you are informed and take proper actions based on that intelligence. ...and again we have you...wah wah wah...cry some more to us about what all you hear anymore. Here's a tissue...and oh...facts don't care about your feelings. You can be cautious and wary without being afraid...especially when you're also protected by intelligence...but we have people like you with little or no intelligence who rely on their feewings...especially pity about their woes. Get over it...we all have 'em.
Been in a similar situation when I was 16yr old. We were fishing in lake Jordan when a water spout started and the sky went pitch black. The waves started and were bigger than anything I've ever seen at the beach. 2 waves hit us head on before my dad could get life jackets and my paw paw could drop the trolls motor. We cap sized and held on to the bottom of the boat for about 4hrs before my dad went under and grabbed a rope. He swam as far as he could and was about to drowned when he started to go under he touched a big rock and he pulled us in and swam to shore and pulled us the rest the way. All 3 of us were lucky that night very scary being helpless on the bottom of a bass boat 💯
I live in Oakland county and have been on st. Clair. Y'all are damn lucky it was a calm day. Now on to the commenter. You're either describing a factious lie, or your dad was a navy S.E.A.L... just sayn sounds a little tough to believe. But what do I know? I certainly DON'T know your pops or paw paw.. I DO know us country folk are built diiiifferent. You know what... NVM the top part of my comment. I wanna believe you. I think It happened just as you said.
@@NickBirdManeS bahahaha right! I was thinking the same thing. My man be like, " My dad pulled the boat 4 miles with Papa and me on top of it! Not only that, he fought off 6 orcas, 3 sharks, and a KRAKEN! Allllll while making love to 6 mermaids and 2 sirens all at ONCE!" like bro.... He has a real "my dad's stronger than yours." vibe going on.
@@rumblevision2558 yes it is.. it’s a drainage basin between Lake Huron and lake eerie.. it may not be one of the actual “Great Lakes” but it is a part of the the Great Lakes.. your comment sucks
If your boats been dry no rain or stored in garage don't pull the plug. There is no need to. . If u pull the plug put it right back in when the water stops coming out. People pull plug and leave it out for no reason. Always have a spare plug too. I've seen guys get hung up going over dead trees and the log will catch the plug and rip it out of the boat. (Not common but it can happen
@@alphacapo for one the plug should be on the inside of your bilge, not the outside of the boat. No one is saying to leave the plug out. He is saying pull the plug and drain the water by moving forward before the damn boat sinks.
@Steve-ev6vx no .. glass boats.. specially older ones have a plug that is NOT accessible from inside you have to get inthe water and pull the plug. Then get in the water and put the plug back in. Unless u have really long arms and want to hang over the boat with your head in the water while u feel around for the hole. Sounds like you've never even been in a boat. Aluminum Jon's have plug on inside. Because the construction of the hull allows for it. Glass bass boats....older ones the drain plugs from the outside . New bass boats have some fancy system that's electric I believe.
Not always a missing drain plug fellas. If the bait pump is plumbed to a through hull fitting, the boat can sink if the pump housing or associated plumbing cracks or leaks. I’ve seen it firsthand.
Yup, one of the fittings on the fronnt bait tank leaked on my pops boat on the columbia up in WA state miles from nowhere. Thought we were going down. But we put it about half throttle and turned the pump on and made it back. I never ran up a boat ramp and backed a trailer down one so fast. Had to put that diesel in 4 low to get the dam thing out. When i pulled the bilge plug, water was coming out for at least 20 minutes
They wouldn't have made it that far from the ramp without the motor running. I think something happened while they where fishing and had the motor off. Could have had a through hull fitting fail or took a wave over the transom.
Best thing to do when this happens is get the boat going with the nose up and don’t get onto a plane. Water will go to the back and drain out the plug hole. Giving you time to get to your trailer
@@smulle96 did this last season when I forgot to put a drain plug in and got all the way across the lake. Had my two fishing partners sit on the nose trimmed all the way down and got it to sit on pad when I gunned it. Almost sank it, check every single time now.
Was in this exact situation with my buddy’s Ranger. We jumped up on plane and kept the boat moving. Dumped me off close enough to the ramp to be able to get the truck and trailer. He kept doing laps until it was ready to load. A boat will not sink while it’s ok plane.
This is why you might wanna take a boating class or two before thinkin you know it all. smh. Should have never happened. As others have said just get goin with the bilge on, water won't come in if you are movin plug or not. It will actually empty the bilge moving even without the bilge pump on.
@@81brassglass79daddy is the one to blame not the kid. If the kid wasn't taught what to do in this situation, more than likely panic took over fast. I forgot my plug one time(luckily I knew what to do) and a fuck ton of water gets in before you can really notice if your just drifting. We couldn't tell anything was wrong until water came up through the floor drains. And by the time that happens, you need to think fast.
Always remember to put your drain plugs back in before you launch your boat folks, a friend of mine..along with another young man drowned because they forgot to put the drain plug back in the boat. They were 3 miles off shore when the realized it.
Very first thing I bought for my boat was a spare drain plug, zip tie it to your cables at the transom. If you ever lose one you got a back up right there handy. These boys need a check list.
I've used ripped Tshirt pretty much anything so you can get on plane and head in. These guys obviously waited far too long before making a quick repair
Everyone keeps saying this, but these boats do not have a removable plug that is accessible from inside. They have a pipe thread garboard plug that is installed from outside the hull using a wrench or socket. You can’t remove or replace it from inside the boat. He would have to get in the water to remove it underwater, with a tool, not lose the plug, get back in the boat and take off. Then if he can actually drive the water out he needs to stop the boat, shut the engine off, get back in the water and replace the plug, all while the boat is refilling with water. Everyone is acting like this boat has an old rubber lever plug from the inside you can just pull out. It doesn’t. Bunch of guys talking about how “it should be done” on an open hull boat, with no idea that you can’t do that on these boats.
@@306Outdoors Most of these boats have a flip up hatch, you can literally reach down and insert a rubber plug from inside the boat. Gotta have a plug first though. Hell, like these other guys where saying, they could have shoved anything in that hole to slow it down. They prolly never even ran the bilge pump, they most likely did'nt even know they where sinking until their feet where wet and the boat was rolling over. That would explain the life jackets foating in the lake. Inexperienced boaters out in big water, not good.
Always double check even triple check ur plugs and seals aren't crackd, broke or missing before u drop the boat in the water or before u leave the dock . And always keep extras close by with a heavy duty sump pump on board.
My son's boat sank similarly like this boat. But, he didn't leave the drain plug out. Nope, rather, a fiberglass repair patch (about 2ft long) underneath the hull literally peeled off the first time he rode in it -- after buying it without sea trialing it. Didn't have insurance either. He did everything OPPOSITE to what I told him to do when buying a used boat. $12,000 lesson learned the hard way.
Of course it was drain plug. Boat sinking from the back is always drain plug. I made this mistake ONCE myself. You only make it once before you learn. Lucky I was still at ramp, backed boat in immediately bilge started pumping, pulled boat back out, drain, insert plug, go fish
If you remove the plug and go full throttle you'll create a siphon and suck all that water out. Also turn your bilge pump on. One thing I learned years ago from an old timer when I got my first boat. Also understanding physics helps.
Eso nos paso a nosotros pero no estábamos en mar abierto. Cuando nos dimos de cuenta de q el por alguna razón el tapón lo había expulsado ,mi esposo como es experimentado de muchos años de embarcasei, Lo q el iso el , fue meterles todo la velocidad hasta llegar a tierra . Y llegamos bien. No fue tan difícil por estábamos serca de la playa . CUANDO PASA ALGO HA SI Q SEA ,Q BOTO EL TAPON POR NO APRETARLO BIEN O SE LE OLVIDO . Y SE EMPIEZA A METER EL AGUA .NO SE PUEDE APAGAR EL MOTOR ,POR Q MAS RÁPIDO SE VA HUNDIR. LO MEJOR ES SEGUIR SU MARCHA A TODA VELOCIDAD Y LE EXPLICO. POR Q A MEDIDA Q EL VOTE VALLA A VELOCIDAD ,EL ROTO DEL DESAGÜE DONDE VA EL TAPÓN , SE VA A FORMA UN CILINDRO O UN REMOLINO DE AGUA Q VA A ENPEDIR Q SE SIGA METIENDO EL AGUA , ESO LE VA HADAR TIEMPO DE LLEGAR HASTA A UN LUGAR SEGURO. ESO LO APRENDÍ CON MI ESPOSO. DE VIVIR 60 AÑOS EN EL MAR ,CON TODO TIPO DE EMBARCACIÓNES Y MOTORAS ACUÁTICAS. EN ESE CASO FUE EN UNA EMBARCACIÓN PEQUEÑA. TENEMOS MUCHAS EXPERIENCIAS VIVIDA EN EL MAR CON. EMBARCACIONES GRANDES Y PEQUEÑAS. YA ESTAMOS RETIRADOS POR Q SOMOS PERSONAS DE LA TERCERA EDAD. Y POR Q ESOS NOS TRAJO MUCHAS CONDICONES ,DE ESPALDA ,CERVICAL LUMBAL Y HACIATICA. SOLO VIAJAMOS EN UNA PEQUEÑA LANCHITA A mi cayo favorito q es 15 minutos de la horrillas donde vivimos Y DE AGUAS CRISTALINAS Y TRANQUILAS . NO HAY Q SALIR A MAR ABIERTOS. ❤ POR Q USTEDES SE CREEN Q LOS CRUCEROS CUANDO SE PARA DEJAN LOS MOTORES ENFUCIONAMIENTO ,PARA Q LAS ENORMES BONBAS SIGAN FUNCIONANDO ,SI LO APAGAN TODOS LOS MOTORES SE LE PUEDE METER EL AGUA . POR LOS BARCO DE CRUCERO TIENEN UN SISTEMA DIFERENTE . SE PUEDEN PARAR PERO NUNCA APAGAN LOS MOTORES.
Yes, parents had a 17ft fishing boat, Dad would have me take out the rear plug as the boat was roaring along (18hp Evinrude) and all rain water would mysteriously be pulled out into the lake. Used to terrify me to some extent ! 😅😅
If everyone else is to safety. A good captain would also get the hell outa there. " The captain never leaves the ship no matter what."! That comment is disney shit.
@@bigshott9117I agree, you don’t want to take a bass boat out on lake at Clair when it’s really choppy out. Which is a lot of the time. Every weekend it’s crazy boat chop due to all the boats and other days it’s always windy. Depends on where you’re at on that lake. But I agree, i would never take a bass boat out there. Just get an 18ft center counsel Boston whaler and you’re good to go.
Happened to me too...I got the othet two guys to the bow for weight then gunned it. That helped the bilge pump and got us back to dock. Left the motor down so when the bilge started refilling once we stopped, it hit bottom at the ramp instead of continuing to sink. Pulled it out of the water, plugged, and went back and caught some fish. Scary though. I still keep looking at the transom and hoping I don't see a puddle forming.
I learned this one from my dad and his experiences if you take a bass boat out onto the ocean or a really big lake have at least one big ass bilge pump in the bottom of the boat with a 2-inch diameter tube attached to it he had two of them the back of the boat once got full of water due to some unforeseen circumstances it drained that whole rear end of that boat in less than a minute so what I learned that day the bilge pumps cost him about $200 and saved the whole boat in the process
I’ve been out boating hundreds, probably thousands of times. It’s about all I do in the summer. In all of those times I only forgot the plug once, and it was the result of a miscommunication. However, it did still happen. It just goes to show you can have lots of experience and do something many times, and still have a mess up for many reasons. These guys though I’m not trying to defend because they handled the initial water in the boat as poorly as you possibly could. They should have turned on the bilge and got moving, so they obviously aren’t the most experienced or bright.
Stuff happens. It's a good idea to NEVER distract someone while they're prepping their boat for launch. I always walk around mine to verify everything is done.
This is why you don’t take a bass boat out on lake st Clair unless you know where to go where you’re protected from the waves, or it’s a random extremely calm day.
I personally dont like bass boats I have a lund but bass boats do fine on lake st clair they literally have professional tournements and I have been on a bass boat is 8 footers on st clair. Was in muskamoot and the wind picked up when we came out 8 footers the boat handled it much better than I thought it would those boats can handle it no problem thats a calm day on this video bro.
Simple solution, before backing down the boat ramp, put the plug in. If you forgot, start your engine, put the engine in gear"preferably in forward" idle up a little, keep moving until the water is all gone. Put the plug in, and your emergency is over. Unless you left the plug in your home, with your brain!😊
Leave plug out, start motor, full throttle, turn on bilge pump and ride until the waters out. Then have homeboy put plug back in, continue fishing.
The only thing I didn't do on ur checklist was keep going...I beached, then put plug back in...and continued fishing
@@brianvincavage7626 😂 it happens to the best. Similar in my experience. I was fishing the trestles on lake pontchatrain in a 15.5ft aluminum boat. The stern hit a piling and knocked the old bilge pump seal out. I won’t hide that it scared the hell out of me.
@@nuejoseph977 oh I was scared!
Yes sir, that's how I would have done it
@@brianvincavage7626 no doubt! The adrenaline and humor afterwards is worth it though.
The Bass came out on top that day.
Hahaha 😂
Lmao thanks
Brilliant 👍 LMAO
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I think muskie and walleye are more likely to have won, to my knowledge that like freezes over in the winter and largemouth or smallmouth can't survive
This is why a 5 gallon bucket is in my kit. There is no pump more efficient than a scared man with a bucket
That’s facts
Plus it doubles as a trash can.
Oh yeah? Too bad a bucket would do nothing here
@@kylen6430 ikr 😂, people need to check their pump and plug every time you hit the water.
You don’t have time to scoop the water out it comes in faster than you can take it out is what my dad always tells me he’s tried that offshore didn’t work his offshore boat sunk in about 30 seconds
Been there, done that!!! And I'm a living witness to what some of these guys are saying. Start the motor, turn on the pump, and head for the shore. We put the plug in, and headed back out to keep fishing. Lesson learned!
The cockpit had no water in it a bucket would be useless
But why did you forget the plug in the first place 😂?
Just bought my first boat. And these comments might save me one day. Thanks all you knowledgeable people.
If your ever taking water on best options remove the pkug if you can get to in and floor it to high ground best advice i can gkve i personally have 3 bilge pumps 4 battery's each with seperate circuits i also carry a hand pump..cant be to safe wirst thing every is not being able to stop a leak..breaking down isnt that bad sinking is bad especially if your 50 miles offshore in international waters.
@@digger_jon2778 You can also install an autobailer. I've raced sailboats for years and these are common on boats like Lightnings that are high performance and designed not to sink
Bro I was thinking the same thing lol
Boating is very fun, but very dangerous. Always go through a checklist before launching including all of the legally required necessities and anything that can help you out on the water. Always carry anchors, spare plug, spare prop and prop wrench, small toolkit, extra spark plugs (if its a 2 stroke), etc. And have a plan for action for anything that can happen. And check the bilge every half hour or so if you're unfamiliar with the boat.
Most boats seep a little water especially when they get older, but know your limitations and plan accordingly. Happy boating.
You will soon learn that the only good boat is somebody else’s boat. Good luck.
This has happened to me. Luckily I had a very experienced passenger with me. And he immediately jumped in the drivers seat told me to seat down and full throttle sent it. He turned the bilge on and then stopped after a few minutes. With all his clothes on. Took the plug, cut the motor off, and jumped in and plugged it. I have never forgotten a plug ever since. I’m glad he was there that day. Because I don’t think I would’ve been that prepared. But now I know!
Yeah so as bad as I want a boat maybe this is why God hasn’t given me one yet there’s ALOT to learn first
So true.... heres what i say to my self.... Plugs in! /Get in!
@@jessefox7005 man I’ve got a 2018 tracker now. Beautiful boat! And I go out every weekend. There’s sooo much into operating a boat. I highly, highly recommend taking a safety course. I learned so much from it. Because I’m telling you. If you’re not careful. You’ll capsize the boat. Or unload it wrong and drain it. Or burn the motor up. There’s so many things. But once you get the hang of it. It becomes second nature.
@@jessefox7005 I had to learn the hard way on so many things. I’ve been stranded several times with older boats.
…and knowing is half the battle! 💯
And he’s already on the phone with his insurance so he can call his wife next and say he’s stopping and looking at new boats on the way home
Lol
Definitely Farmers insurance…they specialize in idiot coverage.
Fool ain't got insurance, plz, probably first time on the water with some hooptie offer up POS boat
@@mrclean-vm9bnoopp aazowwee😢wws😢
@@dbworldwide9846ba ba dum dum dum
Number one rule of boating. Be sure the plug is in.
Number one know what you got and how to operate
a bailer plug , such a small piece, but you sink without it!
That boat won't sink with just the plug out...I have a 201...I know for a fact...something else had to happen. Big hole in the hull or something. I have fished that lake and it's big water
And life jackets are on board
@@timothyshaneschaefer8289that’s definitely number 1 rule
I had this happen just yesterday. I'm a new boater but no fool. I noticed the boat felt heavy when trying to accelerate and was off to one side more. Then I realized I forgot to put the plug in. It was too deep below the water to reach so I quickly turned the bilge pump on and started driving just fast enough to keep the back end up while pulling the upper deck drain plugs where the scupper valves are. It was enough to get me back to the boat launch grab the trailer pull the boat up onto it and let all the water continue to drain out. Then I was back in the water and back to fishing. Can't lie, it was pretty scary.
Yep, every boater has had that or a similar situation. Glad it turned out ok!
@@Carepartner1034 never
DUMBASS
Same thing happened to me and my buddy
Lay off the weed while boating
Remember kids. When your boat fills with water, start driving fast towards the boat launch or a sand bar.
Turn the bilge on and pull plug out
just turn the bilge on and pull the plug out
@@aicapitan3279the plug was obviously already out…they probably had too much water weight to run the boat on plane and empty the water…and a bilge is useless with that much if ur not on plane already
If you can!
First have life jackets ON
The guy had plenty of time to save his boat.
But he decided to laugh and watch it sink instead
I dont think he k ew what to do
He had to save his fishing rods
Im guessing its a rental
Ok captain, before you count your plunder try submerging your ships starter battery in water, while it’s underwater see if it will start your enormous vessel.
I love how they are half submerged and the homie is still fishing.
He’s trying to catch a big fish to tow them to shore
Being stupid is how you flood and capsize a bass boat on reasonably flat water, so it is …. consistent!
@@fishhuntadventureyou have never fished St Clair or any of the Great Lakes have you.
Haha I love how the boat is 1/3rd submerged and no one thought to start towing it with the other boat.
Cant fix stupid!
What bothers y'all is the sinking boat, what bothers me is the fact their life jackets are floating in the water instead of wearing them.
My thought exactly.
They not half dumb....
The official rule book says they have to be in the boat but you don't have to actually be wearing the vest. 🤣🤣🤣 Seems sorta silly don't it
your only required to have life jackets the wearing it is optional I kind of perfil to swim without life vests.
@@Mr.KingsThings
@kylekelly1167 I was thinking back to when I was growing up on the water, but here in my state kids 13 & under have to be wearing them unless inside an enclosed cabin. Where they're filming is in Florida & I think there it's age 6 & below. Either way, as a mom my kids would be wearing them especially through the inlet. They have the one's now that are so thin you can't tell a person has it on until they pull the inflate cord.
But you're right Kyle, here we do have to have a life vest for each person on board (stored under their seat.) We get pulled over all the time for a vest check, which isn't necessarily a bad thing I guess.
Apparently nobody told them when the boat starts sinking to start the motor adjust the trim to ride as high as possible and move just fast enough so it lifts itself back up, and as long as there's not a large gouge or hole in the hull it should be good to make it to shore. Of course if you have a large hole in the hull you're probably just going to rip it apart more but it's still worth a shot at that point.
get back on the grill
Easier said than done as sometimes motor won't start. And even if it does it's near impossible to get on plane if the boat has taken too much water
Most of the guys i see with these boats can barely back a trailer down a ramp lol this doesn't surprise me
hes trying to start it in the first seconds
What if the engine broke as well
As a coast guardsmen, the most disturbing part of this is they are not wearing jackets. Water temp is probably 50-60, so even tredding, with water over your shoulders you have less then hour before hypothermia kicks in. With jacket, you have 6-8 hours.
I suppose with another boat being on scene they likely felt more comfortable and thus didn't put them on, but still absolutely foolish.
Idk man I grew up swimming in cold water for more than an hour at a time but I also could tread water longer than the many coastguards I know so maybe it’s just a training issue
I suppose it’s also relevant I naturally have a 97 degree body temp but you would think I would get cold faster
And neither is going for one even before it's submerged.
@@nothanks9503that’s you in this video?
Fuck the coast guard. Water natzis.
Dude definitely forgot to put the plug back in 😂😭, he shoulda took off full steam ahead 😂.
My first boat was an old aluminum boat that had wings on the back that reminded me of the Batmobile boat 😂..I let my 10 y/o son drive it back to the boat ramp. He was driving as fast as that old Johnson 35 hp would go. I told he to slow down and he shut the motor off. A large wave of water came up over the rear of the boat..I yelled "GET TO LAND, GET TO LAND! He started the boat back up but by then the second wave had filled the back of the boat and it was going under. You could hear that pour old Johnson motor running as it went under the water fighting for its last breath as the rest of the boat continued to sink. ol Johnson got us close enough to shore to where the front bow of the boat looked like a nose poking up for air 😂. Our boat seats and takleboxes and small ice chest was floating. My son was crying as I was gathered up everything floating 😂. I was lucky an old man with wisdom was there to calm me down and talk me through the process of retrieving the boat. I backed my Datson 4X4 down to the water and he had a long strap. My truck was able to pull the boat to the bank of the lake where we alowed the bildge pump to pump out water. The boat started rising in the lake and went into the water and was able to load the boat on my trailer by hand. We put everything back in the boat and learned a lot that day. The boat went under because the back where the motor is attached is open with nothing to help with"back wash". So we learned you couldn't just come to a sudden stop without waves coming into the back of the boat. We had to slowly come to a stop. We got the ol boat home, I found some instructions on what to do if your motor was submerged. Pull the spark plugs, lay it on each side, crank the engine over to spit all the water out of each cylinder. Pour alcohol in each cylinder and crank the motor over to spit all the liquid out. Spray some gas mixed with oil into each cylinder. Put motor back on boat. Clean the spark plug with wire brush, reinstall them, spray some gas in the carboretors, connect garden hose to water pump inlet holes and crank engine over while spraying gas into each carburetor and it started right up.😁 We put fresh gas in the gas tank and took her back to the lake. I left her attached to the trailer while backing the boat far enough into the lake for the motors pump inlet holes to be under water. Cranked it up and let her run for a while to allow the oil from the fresh mixture of oil and gas to relube all internal parts. She ran for several years afterwards and the whole boat was sold because I wanted a real bass boat
Sick story
Now that's a fishing story!!
Great story and Happy ending
Let me guess (and be honest) when u sold the boat u didn’t tell them this story did u 😂
@@adammckenzie8769😂😂
Don't forget to put in the drain plug
That’s a broken thru hull fitting
I was thinking the same thing.
It's odd that they didn't realize it much earlier
I was on a boat with an idiot who knocked the plug out being stupid. It was nighttime & we had no radio.
He would make a good U-boat commander.
@@jeremydougherty all you have to do if the plug isn’t in is floor it and out goes all the water out of the same hole it came in
Folks, please read, answer the SOS!
Just rope the bow to the stern of the running boat and start traveling.
As the derelict boat rises a wee-bit, the water will start to flow OUT of the leak.
We saved a family with a huge leak in their out-drive boot one Sunday.
Watching people just film it always sinks my heart.
Be kind, rewind,
Dan
Clarification:
Water will try to seek level.
Exception: if they hit something and cracked the FRONT of their hull it MIGHT might be lost. Have a knife ready if you're panicky.
One thing I have done was install a reducing bushing in my drain plug.
Reducing the 3/4" hole (1/2 in pipe) to 3/8" (1/4 in pipe), will reduce the inflow to bilge-pump manageable levels in case of an accident.
Boat-lauching can be high-pressure. Especially when traffic, rug-rats, and estrogen are involved.
In case I needed to clarify:
1) A SHARP knife.
2) The drain-plug bushing:
Remember, you left it out to let rain water drain. Rain water will drain just fine through a smaller dia. hole.
3) Yes, estrogen.
4) Their bellow was split wide open. They were going down fast. And, I bet, to this day, they speak of us fondly.
Dan et al.
Respectfully,
Dan
Exactly what I just replied oh well at least there okay I'm sure daddy bought him another one
For those of us over the age of 45-50, we wouldn't think twice to help someone out, especially if they're in real danger. But, today, if you try and protect someone, you're liable to wind up in jail. American society is completely broken. It's beyond heartbreaking for those of us who grew up in a different America.
Yes, let’s film said the one zebra as the lion ate his friend. …smh
😂when dude gets on the walkie and his first word is Ahhhhh😂. You know its about to be a good one
Pulled an insurance claim he wants the new 23-model bass tracker
And it will be sunk again after 1st use 😂😂😂
Bingo
Looks like a good scheme of insurance fraud to me, had someone to pick you up right on que and “record” the event, i wonder how they got the second boat? 🤣 Probably another insurance fraud scheme.
They left The screens on it
No he wants a 2023 bass cat STS with a 450R.
Dude you can "loose" Your guns without sinking a boat lol.
Underrated comment. He just wanted to make sure they believed him. Now he has an insurance claim to back it up.
Would be better if you tightened your guns.
Lose*
Plz explain
@@bakervinci163 an old atf joke. If they ever come looking for your guns, you lost them in the lake.
That is why you don't cancel your boat insurance when you think you don't need it.
bro i live on this lake
Not an issue in a marina is its required all the time...I wouldn't take a bass boat in the great lak3s though, and yeah I know this is a feeder lake of them but if it's on it, I'm betting it was on the Inland Seas of North America too
...or when you're prepared to need it !😂
It's a boat you always need it
😂 true fisherman‘s right here
Grabbing their fishing poles before their life vest
"Now, where did I put those life vests?"
I was waiting for it to cut to show them having lifejackets on, they never even use them😅
@@Fishing-RC-Florida yep
They were with the hull plug!
Take a close look , they're right there floating away as the boat goes down. if that other boat wasn't there they would have earned their Darwin Awards
😂😂😂😂
That's why you always check the plug before you leave the dock and make sure you have at least two
I had three because I bought 2 spares the problem was that I never actually used the other two and when shit hit the fan I was still fucked because guess what..., They are not all compatible. I got lucky and made it to Shore 🙈 so embarrassing!!!
Especially going into big water or extreme remote places.
yea but i have been out several times as a kid on someone else's boat, and once when I was 12 as my friend and i woudl go out on my fathers 12 ft aluninum, and in our case it was a halibut that knocked the plug out and over the edge of the boat, and we were able to get back to the boat launch every time just by moving fast for awhile, then fill the hole with anything you have it doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to slow it down when going slower later, but at speed almost all boats will empty out. and then bail the little bit that comes in while heading back to shore.
That time when I was 12, my friend and I who was also 12 were all the way down an inlet in ocean water that was way rougher then this, and we had no problem getting back despite it taking us over 3 hours at top speed to get back. At speed the water just drain out, and just sit at the back of the boat to ensure at speed there is just enough weight to keep the water out of the bow. Seen it at least 3-4 times in my life, and never was worried until you stopped the engine, etc. Just as soon as you see water get the engines moving to protect from flooding... that's not hard to do...
There is almost no excuse for this unless you have simultaneous motor failure, and you spring a leak. But that seems so unlikely....
Foam bobbers/corks work good to when you have someone accidentally put 6 bullet holes in ya boat floor to try & kill a snake that they missed.
I remember once this guy said he got crap for having a printed checklist in a plastic sleeve with dry erase marker to check off the steps. As usual he has the last laugh.
I would of turn the motor on full throttle and get the bilge pump on and head to shore
Hell yea would of had that bow pointing to the sky😂
My first thoughts
@@Nathlete_ out mechanic told us we they put the plugs back in but they only ended up putting one of them in . We didn’t realize until water started coming through the floor . my dad told us to sit the fuck down and hold on . We lost hats, wake boards fell off , we hit a wave and my phone bounced off the seat and went like 6 feet in the air . We we’re going 50mph with water falling going over the seats but after about 4 minutes we got to shore and my dad just basically drove it onto a beach . Saved the 200k boat tho
Done it a couple times works like a charm 😂
Usually doesn't work that way usually the billage pump hose ends up having a crack in it Or stopped working. Which started the problem
If it is plug out and you can start motor, fast forward the water will siphon out of the boat
My man still jigging for that last walleye while the boat’s going down. Respect.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😭😭😭
😜👏🏼
That is true commitment right there 👏 👌
Fish or die trying😂😂😂
look how well the life jackets floated
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My dad grew up on lake Sinclair and has told me he has 3 boats at the bottom of the lake. One was from another boat colliding into his boat. The others were rogue waves and he didn’t have someone there watching him sink instead of pulling his boat to safety!!! He loved his John boats and once those fill with water your in trouble. After the third boat going down he decided to buy a Boston wailer because they’re almost impossible to sink!
Boston whalers don't sink buddy.... it can be cut in half and you will still be dry!!
I’ve lived by lake st Clair my whole live and always have had a boat on the lake. I would never take a flat bottom John boat out on the lake. The waves can get pretty damn big. Espically during the weekend when there’s alot of boats out and you get big waves from all the boats.
Now a whaler is the way to go, they are literally unsinkable. My buddy had an 18ft center counsel and we used to take that thing straight across the lake every weekend in the summer to go party at harsens island and no matter how big the waves were the boat was always fine.
John boat... that was the problem. They're for back waters or small lakes.
Heard pontoon boats are somewhat the same
Coordinates please! Lol
I did that once. Was able to make it back to the dock, pull it out and drain it, plug it and re-gain the party.
I always keep a power drill in the boat, because that way, you can drill holes to lets the water out.
😂😂😂😂😂
I did that once. Worked great!
3 Stooges. 😂
Hi Curly!!! Nyuk, nyuk,nyuk!!
Brilliant.
Brings back memories. On my honeymoon, my best man and his wife took my bass boat out fishing. The boat's engine was larger than necessary for the boat. A barge came by and my friend's wife says, " Hey honey, were takimg in water." He ignored her and the boat flipped. All the other boats on the lake came to their rescue. He called and said, "Hey buddy, I sank your boat." It didnt sink to the bottom though because of an air pocket. He had it hauled to his house, spent days cleaning every part of the boat. When I got home, the boat looked sparkling show room condition and ran like a gem.
Friend sounds like a keeper
& that's the reason he was your best man. he already earned it.
That’s a good friend!
That’s a solid friend man
Those are the kinds of friends I’m looking for
Well props to him, went down with the boat like a real captain 🛥
😂
Until he has to explain to his Dad that he took his boat without asking.
He gets a tattoo and and an ear pierced 😁🚤🎣
Did they try to tow it?
Love how the life jackets are just floating and not on the guys while the boats sinking
noticed that too.
Almost like it was planned 😆
Fraud
I would be maddddd
If you are a good swimmer and the pickup boat is right there.....what's the big deal?
The two happiest days of owning a boat the day you buy it and the day it sinks
😂 well not quite buts some truth to that , I have owned an old sea ray for more than 15 years and all I could say it’s been great other than some maintenance
Thats what boring shore lovers say because they cant afford a boat.
Cooold😅
@@jeffmech600 lol yep but I’ve had good luck with boats
@@elguaguero23 I’ve been pretty lucky I’m 57 and I’ve owned bass boats since I was 18. The worst thing you can do to a outboard boat motor is not use it on a regular basis
"A bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work"
Whoever originally said this was a shore fisherman.
lmao YES
Yeah until you lose your boat🤣
Thanks for making me laugh today that was a good one.
@@nagazinafireworks7594 right? Like just last week i went ice fishing and drove right beside the charred remains of a snowmobile. They probably wish they were at work LOL
A shore fisherman? Oh you mean a real fisherman.😂
This happened to me in my speed boat. I open it wide open and turned the pump on. I made a mad dash until the pump had got enough water out then I put the plug in and went back to the ramp and took the boat out of the water and drained the rest out of the boat. Then went back out and had fun!
I like how there’s a life jacket floating right there and neither one of them thinks “oh, this might be good to use!”
Maybe cause there's another boat right next to them and they both very likely know how to swim?
If booze is on board, life jackets should be used on the cooler.
@@Mika-ph6ku doesn't matter if you know how to swim if you slip and knock yourself unconscious...or get yourself tangled up in mooring line as the boat is sinking...
@@W8RIT1 and take note of the fact that neither of those scenarios occurred in this short. Too many worryworts in today's society. What if what if what if, all I ever hear...
@@Mika-ph6ku yet my potential scenarios DO HAPPEN frequently and continuously despite best efforts to inform...and among the others we find you. You instruct others to "take note" as you ignore ... You also don't have to "worry" if you are informed and take proper actions based on that intelligence. ...and again we have you...wah wah wah...cry some more to us about what all you hear anymore. Here's a tissue...and oh...facts don't care about your feelings. You can be cautious and wary without being afraid...especially when you're also protected by intelligence...but we have people like you with little or no intelligence who rely on their feewings...especially pity about their woes. Get over it...we all have 'em.
My brother did this over 90 percent of the time.
As stated above.
start motor, full throttle, turn on bilge pump and ride until the waters out.
Your brother left the plug out 90% of the time?!? Your brother wasn't a very smart man eh? Lol 😂😅
Sounds like boating ain’t his hobby, maybe try cooking
Yes. That's what you do!
Been in a similar situation when I was 16yr old. We were fishing in lake Jordan when a water spout started and the sky went pitch black. The waves started and were bigger than anything I've ever seen at the beach. 2 waves hit us head on before my dad could get life jackets and my paw paw could drop the trolls motor. We cap sized and held on to the bottom of the boat for about 4hrs before my dad went under and grabbed a rope. He swam as far as he could and was about to drowned when he started to go under he touched a big rock and he pulled us in and swam to shore and pulled us the rest the way. All 3 of us were lucky that night very scary being helpless on the bottom of a bass boat 💯
Jordan in NC ?
scary shit
They don’t have water spots in Jordan
I live in Oakland county and have been on st. Clair. Y'all are damn lucky it was a calm day. Now on to the commenter. You're either describing a factious lie, or your dad was a navy S.E.A.L... just sayn sounds a little tough to believe. But what do I know? I certainly DON'T know your pops or paw paw.. I DO know us country folk are built diiiifferent. You know what... NVM the top part of my comment. I wanna believe you. I think It happened just as you said.
Major 🧢 . More cap than a ballteam my boy. I died laughing tho 😂😂😂
@@NickBirdManeS bahahaha right! I was thinking the same thing. My man be like, " My dad pulled the boat 4 miles with Papa and me on top of it! Not only that, he fought off 6 orcas, 3 sharks, and a KRAKEN! Allllll while making love to 6 mermaids and 2 sirens all at ONCE!" like bro.... He has a real "my dad's stronger than yours." vibe going on.
I’m not even a boat owner yet and I feel like my life has been saved. Thanks for the comments.
I would never take a bass boat miles offshore.. in the Great Lakes or the ocean 😅
St Clair is not apart of the Great Lakes.
@@rumblevision2558 yes it is.. it’s a drainage basin between Lake Huron and lake eerie.. it may not be one of the actual “Great Lakes” but it is a part of the the Great Lakes.. your comment sucks
@@Saucygremlinsks I'm from Michigan. St Clair is its own lake... you sound stupid.
Yea who tf fish in the “ocean” in a bass boat lol
Its part of it, and its no joke, dangerous @@rumblevision2558
Gotta love how dude is still fishing while it's going down,we salute you sir😅😅😅
Не смешно
Ahahaha 😂
@@timmiller3133 не смешно
That's the exact kind of dipshit you dont want as a fishing partner.
nope. No one is fishing.
The dude was like oh coast guard come save my boat before its too late ! Lol 24 hours minimum buck
Have the key attached to your plug.
Install plug, put key into ignition.
If your boats been dry no rain or stored in garage don't pull the plug. There is no need to. . If u pull the plug put it right back in when the water stops coming out. People pull plug and leave it out for no reason. Always have a spare plug too. I've seen guys get hung up going over dead trees and the log will catch the plug and rip it out of the boat. (Not common but it can happen
@@alphacapo for one the plug should be on the inside of your bilge, not the outside of the boat. No one is saying to leave the plug out. He is saying pull the plug and drain the water by moving forward before the damn boat sinks.
@Steve-ev6vx no .. glass boats.. specially older ones have a plug that is NOT accessible from inside you have to get inthe water and pull the plug. Then get in the water and put the plug back in. Unless u have really long arms and want to hang over the boat with your head in the water while u feel around for the hole. Sounds like you've never even been in a boat. Aluminum Jon's have plug on inside. Because the construction of the hull allows for it. Glass bass boats....older ones the drain plugs from the outside . New bass boats have some fancy system that's electric I believe.
@@alphacapo the ones I have had with outside plugs screwed in, never seen the other kind on the outside, my bad.
@@alphacaponot electric but a cable from transom to plug,
Not always a missing drain plug fellas. If the bait pump is plumbed to a through hull fitting, the boat can sink if the pump housing or associated plumbing cracks or leaks. I’ve seen it firsthand.
Yup, one of the fittings on the fronnt bait tank leaked on my pops boat on the columbia up in WA state miles from nowhere. Thought we were going down. But we put it about half throttle and turned the pump on and made it back. I never ran up a boat ramp and backed a trailer down one so fast. Had to put that diesel in 4 low to get the dam thing out. When i pulled the bilge plug, water was coming out for at least 20 minutes
So have I on Table Rock
yup ! that's absolutely correct sir .
@@larryelliott7320 thats a rough lake for this to happen
Grew up on a bass boat. This situation was so damn fixable smh
Boaters not knowing what they are doing
You don't know what you don't know... We were all young once... You didn't pop out of your mom's snatch knowing exactly what to do in every situation.
@@davycornell8715he lived on one, some things come with nature...u caca head
lucky ass
I definitely could have saved that little boat had I been on it that day!!
Why leave plug out where a 300 lbs motor weighs your boat down in the water as it bobs?
Homeboy filmed his own insurance fraud
Life jackets really did their job floating in the water 👍🏻
Lmao
Is this in windsor
i love that he is more concerned about the fishing pole than the boat :D
It's probably his buddies boat and the only thing on the boat that's his.
The boat'll float. Gotta save everything that sinks. 😂
Should have had my heart will go on as music lol
That’s when you turn the bilge on and put that motor to work straight for the closet bank
An if the motor won’t run like that old 2 stroke Yammy wasn’t I bet ..
There plan wasn’t to save it 🤣 Just let insurance get em the new 2023 edition sport boat
Someone forgot the drain plugs… had they noticed sooner, get the motor started and floor it. Will save your boat.
They wouldn't have made it that far from the ramp without the motor running. I think something happened while they where fishing and had the motor off. Could have had a through hull fitting fail or took a wave over the transom.
Best thing to do when this happens is get the boat going with the nose up and don’t get onto a plane. Water will go to the back and drain out the plug hole. Giving you time to get to your trailer
getting a waterfilled boat on plane deserves a masters degree if you manage it
@@smulle96 did this last season when I forgot to put a drain plug in and got all the way across the lake. Had my two fishing partners sit on the nose trimmed all the way down and got it to sit on pad when I gunned it. Almost sank it, check every single time now.
@@kingpesh7488 happy you saved it :) yep, better safe than sorry!
Once the outboard is submerged is that motor done for?
Was in this exact situation with my buddy’s Ranger. We jumped up on plane and kept the boat moving. Dumped me off close enough to the ramp to be able to get the truck and trailer. He kept doing laps until it was ready to load. A boat will not sink while it’s ok plane.
Hard to sink a ranger anyway! Full of foam
unless it gets too weighted down with water that the boat is unable to get on plane. then you've got some issues
@@tabletop45Seen that happen, the motor was just absolutely miserable while trying to get on plane trying to deal with the added weight.
If I had a dollar for every bass boat that has done this on Saint Clair I would be rich.
If I had a hundred dollars for each time 🤪
if I had a 1000 dollars
If I had a million dollars 😂
One billion dollars
-Dr Evil
One trillion dollar
My Dad owned and co-owned a few boats. He told me "a boat is a hole in the water you throw money in to".
Boat= Bust Out Another Thousand 😂
He wasn’t wrong
@@JustSpeakingFacts_ OK, how was he wrong? Speak facts to me.
@@johnossendorf9979 wasn't is short for was not .... he was not wrong or he was right.
@@ITubetc Woops, sorry about that 😅! You are quite correct.
You didn’t have a Ranger did you ????? Skirt!!!!
This is why you might wanna take a boating class or two before thinkin you know it all. smh. Should have never happened. As others have said just get goin with the bilge on, water won't come in if you are movin plug or not. It will actually empty the bilge moving even without the bilge pump on.
Yeah it's a true shame to see expensive stuff like this Get wasted by the stupid. Daddy's got a lot of money I guess and no knowledge.
Yeah ok genius, I'm glad you offered your sage advice. The rest of us couldn't figure it out....
@@81brassglass79daddy is the one to blame not the kid. If the kid wasn't taught what to do in this situation, more than likely panic took over fast. I forgot my plug one time(luckily I knew what to do) and a fuck ton of water gets in before you can really notice if your just drifting. We couldn't tell anything was wrong until water came up through the floor drains. And by the time that happens, you need to think fast.
That’s a lot of opinion considering you don’t even know what happened..
He was stalled. He couldn't get the boat to start
Good idea to put on your life jacket when your sinking.
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Life jackets are only for if you get knocked unconscious. Or if you can’t swim like a 2 year old
Yeah that makes sense. Wow what was I thinking.
@@glenmatchem7568 good looks
@@bigsquish6036That is the dumbest thing i've heard today
Always remember to put your drain plugs back in before you launch your boat folks, a friend of mine..along with another young man drowned because they forgot to put the drain plug back in the boat. They were 3 miles off shore when the realized it.
My 😢 condolences brother, I hope that your ok now; God will make things better for you and their family . God bless.
Damn that is sad man, my condolences!!🙏🙏
Always remember to take swimming lessons
Wow they drown they couldn't stay a float the only way you have to lay on your back Intel rescue comes but the sharks will get you to
Uff
Did this at the dock once, luckily, I was close enough to get it back on the trailer. Only happens once, after that you will never forget your plug.
Very first thing I bought for my boat was a spare drain plug, zip tie it to your cables at the transom. If you ever lose one you got a back up right there handy. These boys need a check list.
I've used ripped Tshirt pretty much anything so you can get on plane and head in. These guys obviously waited far too long before making a quick repair
The boys need to be on land.
Everyone keeps saying this, but these boats do not have a removable plug that is accessible from inside. They have a pipe thread garboard plug that is installed from outside the hull using a wrench or socket. You can’t remove or replace it from inside the boat. He would have to get in the water to remove it underwater, with a tool, not lose the plug, get back in the boat and take off. Then if he can actually drive the water out he needs to stop the boat, shut the engine off, get back in the water and replace the plug, all while the boat is refilling with water. Everyone is acting like this boat has an old rubber lever plug from the inside you can just pull out. It doesn’t. Bunch of guys talking about how “it should be done” on an open hull boat, with no idea that you can’t do that on these boats.
@@306Outdoors Most of these boats have a flip up hatch, you can literally reach down and insert a rubber plug from inside the boat. Gotta have a plug first though. Hell, like these other guys where saying, they could have shoved anything in that hole to slow it down. They prolly never even ran the bilge pump, they most likely did'nt even know they where sinking until their feet where wet and the boat was rolling over. That would explain the life jackets foating in the lake. Inexperienced boaters out in big water, not good.
@@Tonnsfabrication No you can't. There's no way to get a standard sized plug in that hole.
Always double check even triple check ur plugs and seals aren't crackd, broke or missing before u drop the boat in the water or before u leave the dock . And always keep extras close by with a heavy duty sump pump on board.
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My son's boat sank similarly like this boat. But, he didn't leave the drain plug out. Nope, rather, a fiberglass repair patch (about 2ft long) underneath the hull literally peeled off the first time he rode in it -- after buying it without sea trialing it.
Didn't have insurance either.
He did everything OPPOSITE to what I told him to do when buying a used boat. $12,000 lesson learned the hard way.
"So you were right... that was a drain plug. "
Of course it was drain plug. Boat sinking from the back is always drain plug. I made this mistake ONCE myself. You only make it once before you learn. Lucky I was still at ramp, backed boat in immediately bilge started pumping, pulled boat back out, drain, insert plug, go fish
For future sinking boat owners, put a tow roap on the bow and head back in. The angle of the boat will bring it right up
Tow buddy may not wanna tie his boat to a sinking one lol drive it bilge it beach it if you have to..my plugs on outside..always have extra on boat
When you get back to the dock and the plug is on the tailgate…
Whoever invented the drain plug needs to be brought in from of congress
" I thought you said YOU put the plug in!!"
They will get to pay for that boat twice when the recovery company comes to get it and the State fines for pollution in lake St Clair.
So the state gets a bunch of money for the pollution, but the pollution just stays there. What a racket. I need to be the state.
If you remove the plug and go full throttle you'll create a siphon and suck all that water out. Also turn your bilge pump on. One thing I learned years ago from an old timer when I got my first boat. Also understanding physics helps.
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Yes, parents had a 17ft fishing boat, Dad would have me take out the rear plug as the boat was roaring along (18hp Evinrude) and all rain water would mysteriously be pulled out into the lake. Used to terrify me to some extent ! 😅😅
Oh yah don’t worry about the life jackets or anything
The captain never leaves the ship , no matter what
If everyone else is to safety. A good captain would also get the hell outa there. " The captain never leaves the ship no matter what."! That comment is disney shit.
The Captain is the last one off the boat, no matter what!!*
@lyndasteers7655 you ever see the movie "the perfect storm" ?? Thank hollywood
There was no captain on board , just a couple of folks from the poop deck
As a former naval officer, the captain abandons vessel but only after all other souls are off !!
I love how the guy in front looks like he is still fishing 😂
Hang on, I had a bite, last cast.
that’s the dumb part that makes it look obvious lol
A real man goes down with his boat 😢
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Saluting as she goes down
No they don't.
I put it in before I leave the house & check it when I get there .
For sale: drain plug, barely used, left over from old project.
Never used still in packaging
When you take a bass boat on an ocean.
Its a lake
@@FrigginCatsBruhI live there, they are fresh water oceans.
@@bigshott9117I agree, you don’t want to take a bass boat out on lake at Clair when it’s really choppy out. Which is a lot of the time. Every weekend it’s crazy boat chop due to all the boats and other days it’s always windy. Depends on where you’re at on that lake. But I agree, i would never take a bass boat out there. Just get an 18ft center counsel Boston whaler and you’re good to go.
Happened to me too...I got the othet two guys to the bow for weight then gunned it. That helped the bilge pump and got us back to dock. Left the motor down so when the bilge started refilling once we stopped, it hit bottom at the ramp instead of continuing to sink. Pulled it out of the water, plugged, and went back and caught some fish. Scary though. I still keep looking at the transom and hoping I don't see a puddle forming.
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I learned this one from my dad and his experiences if you take a bass boat out onto the ocean or a really big lake have at least one big ass bilge pump in the bottom of the boat with a 2-inch diameter tube attached to it he had two of them the back of the boat once got full of water due to some unforeseen circumstances it drained that whole rear end of that boat in less than a minute so what I learned that day the bilge pumps cost him about $200 and saved the whole boat in the process
bro was still fishing
I’m not a boater here but how do people forget to put the plug? It’s literally something so important you’d think you’d remember
I’ve been out boating hundreds, probably thousands of times. It’s about all I do in the summer. In all of those times I only forgot the plug once, and it was the result of a miscommunication. However, it did still happen. It just goes to show you can have lots of experience and do something many times, and still have a mess up for many reasons. These guys though I’m not trying to defend because they handled the initial water in the boat as poorly as you possibly could. They should have turned on the bilge and got moving, so they obviously aren’t the most experienced or bright.
Ours took on water because the ski boat was so low in back end. Big waves can fill it up quick. Never happened on the bass boat.
It happens. I'm 54 have done it twice. Caught it both times before I left the dock thank God.
Stuff happens. It's a good idea to NEVER distract someone while they're prepping their boat for launch. I always walk around mine to verify everything is done.
Why we still design boats to sink amazes me. I don't care what excuses there are... Bottom line is that they should float and they don't.
Chef Milo this is genius bro frfr no bullsshhiitt!! Bro you are the only person to come up with this🎉
This is why you don’t take a bass boat out on lake st Clair unless you know where to go where you’re protected from the waves, or it’s a random extremely calm day.
I personally dont like bass boats I have a lund but bass boats do fine on lake st clair they literally have professional tournements and I have been on a bass boat is 8 footers on st clair. Was in muskamoot and the wind picked up when we came out 8 footers the boat handled it much better than I thought it would those boats can handle it no problem thats a calm day on this video bro.
That's a pretty good day on LSC. Weather doesn't appear to be a factor.
Yep weather def not a factor there. I'll experience definitely!
Pumps must not have been working or if drain plug was out they would have seen water coming out
That obviously has nothing to do with waves. Or being a bass boat. Likely a drain plug.
Legend, has it that someone forgot to put the drain plug back in!😮
R the lifejackets still floating
Boats sinking and the life jackets are in the floor. 🙄
You dont need them unless the big motor is running 😂😂🤣
Bailer plug wasn’t in…. Keep a 5 gallon bucket in it got dammit 😭 “my dads away on vacation. We can just use his boat Kyle”
Exactly why I bought a foam filled 2004 ranger 521 vx .
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@@sharonbraselton4302 unsinkable because of the foam.
@@sharonbraselton4302 boat can be cut into pieces and still float .
All bass boats manufactured after 1994 have 'Neutral Buoyancy Floatation', per the U.S. Coast Guard.
@@shadygraves well, that boat is either older than 1994 with I doubt, the engine is too large, or that manufacture is not in compliance.
I glad there was another boat there to help. It could have been so much worse if that other boat was not there.
Cause who would have filmed it for the insurance company
Simple solution, before backing down the boat ramp, put the plug in.
If you forgot, start your engine, put the engine in gear"preferably in forward" idle up a little, keep moving until the water is all gone. Put the plug in, and your emergency is over.
Unless you left the plug in your home, with your brain!😊
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Us city folk know what we are doing.
Can't help where you're born 😂
One of the most asinine comments I’ve ever read in my life.
Just ??????