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WRECKED! Boating gone wrong!

I don't have any pics, but my first summer out of college (after freshman year) I worked at a marina. I was sent along with another co-worker to go pick up a customers boat at thier house and bring it back to the shop. We went and picked it up and were driving back with it when we hit a bump and sure enough I look back and there is the boat grinding along the pavement behind us. The worse part is that it happend a 1/2 mile from my highschool and it was just when school was getting out so all of the underclassmen that I knew were driving by when I was trying to hustle and winch this boat back on the trailer....how embarassing!
 
Well, looks like there's another one for this thread....
 

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And from what Todd Talyor stated, someone went diving over night and stole the speakers out of it and tried to get the shifters too ! :ack2:
 
our season ended early this year . steering failure and hit the steel wall at AC. good thing the locals fishing off the wall have a catch and release program!
 

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Glad you are all ok! Sorry about the boat. I think I saw you guys a few weeks ago when we made a lunch run to A/C. You guys were going to the place across the harbor from Trumps.
 
95south said:
our season ended early this year . steering failure and hit the steel wall at AC. good thing the locals fishing off the wall have a catch and release program!
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Damn man, sorry to see that. Going to be able to repair with relative ease?:(
 
No , she could not be fixed, deck twisted , cracks all the way back to the helm, even impact issues in the engine room.
she was a strong boat, built well, the boat did its job and took the hit.
now we are starting to look for the next ride
 
95south said:
No , she could not be fixed, deck twisted , cracks all the way back to the helm, even impact issues in the engine room.
she was a strong boat, built well, the boat did its job and took the hit.
now we are starting to look for the next ride
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Good god man...how fast were you going???????
 
Good god man...how fast were you going???????

maybe 20mph when we hit, we were coming off plane, while I was making the rt turn going into AC, the the boat snapped to the lf. I got the bow down and threw it into reverse just before we hit. the wall was not going to move!
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95south said:
No , she could not be fixed, deck twisted , cracks all the way back to the helm, even impact issues in the engine room.
she was a strong boat, built well, the boat did its job and took the hit.
now we are starting to look for the next ride
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Is it a cafe? Kinda looks like it from the bow. Is the insurance going to cover it?
 
it was a lipship 95 topgun, all new graphics from Dave Hunter, new power in 2007
we spent 4 years re doing the boat and in one second it was gone. the repairs went way past the insured value of the boat plus a huge safety issue with the location and extent of the damage. We all walked away and the boat can be replaced.
 
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