Only married folks will appreciate this

[JohnRuff]

My first boat - a 17 ft tri-hull. Used. Wife has no desire to go boating - ever. But the weekend finally arrived -- so I decided to double check everything so he would have a wonderful first day boating expierence.<br /><br />So before we go to the lake - I hook up the garden hose to it and make sure it starts. It did.<br /><br />Next we go to the lake and launch the boat, and it won't start.<br /><br />Pull boat back onto the trailer and up to the parking area. Jump in boat and it starts right up!<br /><br />Back into the lake it goes - boat won't start.<br /><br />Wife looks at me with only the look a wife can do and says "Seems it is allergic to water!"<br /><br />(Was a weak battery - and the prop being in the water was just enough for it not to have enough power to start.)

 

[Twidget]

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"Seems it is allergic to water!"

She has a good sense of humor. <br /><br />The first time i took my wife out, I borrowed my dads boat. Got it launched, engine started first try, plug is in. Looks like a winner doesnt it? Well, the boat had been sitting a while, the steering was frozen hard over.

 

[Winger Ed.]

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Originally posted by Twidget:<br /> [QUOTE steering was frozen hard over.:

//////<br /><br />I suckered my first wife into a false sense of confidence about boating.<br /><br />I restored a '58 Lonstar day cruiser the first few months after I got out of the service. We took it out on Lake Dallas once. The boat ran perfect. She was won over and looked favorably toward going out again. <br /><br />Awhile later, we took it to Lake Whitney. The wind was running about 200 miles an hour down there by the dam and the waves were running about 10-12' out on the lake.<br /><br />The wife wasn't to crazy about the whole deal, but I told her, "Hey, it calm on the other side of the lake. We'll get over there in a few minutes, and everything will be fine".<br /><br />About a half a mile offshore, with about 3 miles left to go,,,, a few teeth sheered off the steering rack. It'd steer full right, or back to center/straight ahead. No ability to turn left.<br /><br />What a hoot. We'd ride down the backside of a wave, go 'squishhh!!' scoup up a few inches of lake, and it'd wash up the deck, over the windshield, over the hard top, over its windshield, and land about 10 behind the boat still pretty much in a sheet of water as the boat started back up the front of the next one.<br /><br />While down in the trough, you couldn't see land. You could only see it briefly when the water sheet broke over the rear of the sun canopy while ya were on top before tipping forward, and plunging back down that wave's backside. <br /><br />I thought it was a blast. She didn't. We never even got wet from the spray, but that was the end of her going to the lake for about 10 years.<br /><br />Taking out one of the boats is totally out of the question for second wife. She doesn't even really like getting close to any of the boats even when they are in the driveway. I think she has some unresolved issues from her childhood....<br /><br />Ed.

 

[silenscurator]

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Well, I guess its the mentality of boaters...<br />"Hey, it could be worse...sure we're screaming over waves big enough to roll the boat like a bath-tub toy...sure we're taking on water, sure the steerings broke...but it could be worse..." had a few of those myself. Have a 14' aluminum w/ a 15hp and man, you get out into some nice waves and she just skimms over the top of em....until you get that one wave whos trough is just a little longer than the others and man does that boat come to a stop quick fast and in a hurry....i thought it was great fun, my g/f at the time thought otherwise...

 

[Tinkerer]

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I'm disturbed about the title of this thread.<br /><br />What is there to appreciate about being married?

 

[NYMINUTE]

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Allergic to the water. Your wife rocks. Thats funny.

 

[Triton II]

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Children Tink... (They enable you to put the wife backstage! )

 

[jstromsk]

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Many moons ago, before wife......Met a couple young ladies at the pub. Made arrangements to meet at the lake the next day. 20' Sea Ray pulled the bumper off my Olds Cutlass. They were at the launch, I wasn't

 

[BigPoppaG]

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Classic.........Pure Classic.

 

[cwilt]

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had a friends boat jump on plane next to me, mywife was in the back of the boat locking the seat down, when all of a sudden his wake was right next to me, tried to turn my boat into the wake. well she went over. would not have been to bad if we were not looking at a 14 ft gator shes ok