View Full Version : Best excuse for forgetting the transom plug? Foxy lady?
Atomic Eye
05-28-2002, 07:23 PM
Can you please share the best excuse you've ever heard for forgetting to put the transom plug in the boat and nearly filling it with water? Even your best made up one will do for this post.
This weekend, I was glad the bilge pump on my new Lund was able to pump 1,000 gallons / hour! There wasn't a foxy lady (besides my wife) to distract me this weekend; so, it must have been a senior moment.
Atomic Eye (New Mexico) -- "Gone Fission!" ~~~<}}}:>
Pitts
05-28-2002, 09:18 PM
I looked at my 7 year old ( that was 5 years ago) and ask him why he forgot the plug. The look on his face of pure terror was a million laughs.
Pitts
Fishingdog
05-28-2002, 09:32 PM
My wife and then 5 year old were in the boat and I said "I did that on purpose to make sure I used that one up for the year." My wife gave me that "yeah right" look but even worse, I got the same look from my 5 year old. Needless to say, that was the last time I used that excuse!
Stehle
05-29-2002, 05:27 AM
I don't have a story...yet, but a friend of mine was fishing in his runabout with another friend. After about an hour of fishing, his buddy asked "Hey Don, I didn't know you had a live well in your boat". Suffice it to say that it was actually his ski locker.
WiseMan
05-29-2002, 06:21 AM
I was on a walleye lake when a guy drives up pulling his beautiful rig. He puts it into the water and walks to his tow vehicle and drives it to his cabin. Walks back to the boat. Is putting gear into it. All of a sudden this guy is running up the dock back to his vehicle ... backs it down the dock like mad and is driving his boat up onto his trailer.
He would not tell anyone what happened. Word gets out that he forgot to put his plug in. So, the razzing started.
He eventually came up with "I PUT THAT PLUG IN!!! Somebody took it OUT!!" Needless to say, there were a lot of stories and snyde laughter around camp that week.
Andy K
05-29-2002, 06:40 AM
Shortly after picking up my new Lund,(new to me-used boat), My son and I took it out. Being new to boating, I looked and saw the plug in the transome, so I thought we were safe. NOT......Someone at the marine dealer put the plug back into the livewell drain hole! It was there, just in the wrong hole. Good thing for bilge pumps!
Dale915
05-29-2002, 08:17 AM
Well sometimes I wonder if this story will ever die. About 4 years ago. Putting in my ski boat waiting at the ramp for my buddies and the two woman. Sitting there a few minutes I felt water. OH ##### it hit me we forgot the plug. Heres the best part. I remember its sitting in the truck still. Running to meet my buddy he catches me half way. He keeps repeating ##### #####, I just locked the keys in the truck. Great I said, now we have a bigger problem. I told him we forgot to put the plug in the boat. Thus the plug sits on the center console about 2 feet from the keys in the ignition. Talk about the harrassing we got form the girls and the people at the boat ramp. Thank god for shallow water and a bilge pump.
I was on a lake in montana when we were about to put the boat in the water. Next thing we heard was alot of profanity. And we heard a boat was sunk.What the story was was a guy left his live well aerator runing when he went into the marina and some minnows got into the overflow tube and plugged it up. Needless to say he was in the marina for awhile and when he came back out the bow was all that was sticking out of the water.
This year when I was putting my boat in for the first time in early April at a busy boat landing I saw an old guy that had brought his lawn chair and was watching all of the people launching their boats. The old guy told me that every year at this time he came down to the landing to watch people launch for the first time that year. He stated that at least 10% of the boats did not have the plug in. He said that each year he had a great time watching people go into the panic mode as they were trying to keep the boat from sinking. I asked him if he warned people as they were launching and his reply was "what--and spoil all the fun?". To him it was great entertainment.
Mike
Hey Atomic Eye, sounds to me like you just missed an opportunity to, not only blame it on Fission Eye, but make points with her at the same time if you had said that she was the foxy lady that distracted you (".......other than my wife"?????) rather than blaming it on a senior moment.
The plug is the real reason I put a motor bracket on my boat. Sure, it helps to hold up my motor, but also I have to get down right next to the transom plug in order to disconnect the bracket so it reminds me to insert the plug.
Atomic Eye
05-29-2002, 08:10 PM
Dick,
I concede to your suggestion. I should have worded it differently to win points on all sides. By the way, are you a politician or aspiring to political office?
And here's an entry from a work friend of mine:
"I figured we'd catch so many fish that I needed the bilge area as an auxialliary livewwell!"
Atomic Eye (New Mexico) -- "Gone Fission!" ~~~<}}}:>
Gilligan
05-30-2002, 03:11 PM
I am proud to say that I have N E V E R, NEVER, never forgot to put the plug in. Installing the total responsibility of my fishing partner, if it was forgotten it was HIS fault!
water_wolf
05-30-2002, 07:49 PM
I was inline to pull my boat at the launch and talking to the guy in the boat next to me when all of a sudden we hear this loud scraping noise coming from the launch area. Seems the guy that was pulling his boat out had a inboard outboard and forgot to trim up the lower unit...OUCH!
Well we chuckled about that for a second then went on talking as the next person launched their boat. He drops the boat in and goes up above parks his truck/trailer as we see him trot back down to the launch I notice that his stern is sitting a bit low in the water. He realizes that his plug wasnt in and bolts back up to get his truck. He gets the boat out no problem...just alot of water.
Then the guy I was talking to says "well looks like its my turn". I just grinned and said "I'll be watching".
Rich Ferguson
Atomic Eye
06-01-2002, 08:02 PM
OK, another buddy of mine said that he leaves the transom plug out at least once each year because that is the frequency that the bilge pump manufacturer recommends for "stress testing" the pump to assure performance!
Atomic Eye (New Mexico) -- "Gone Fission!" ~~~<}}}:>
My retired fishing buddy, 23 foot boston whaler, first time he left the plug out, shugs it off an says, whalers are unsinkable. Was able to put plug in out in the middle of lake erie and it eventually pumped the 6 inches of water out of the boat. Second time it happens, he says, you know some people have all-timers. Well he says, I have half timers. I forget the plug half the time. I said, why don't you just leave the plug in for the summer. He says, why didn't I think of that.