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MY BOAT SANK!!!!

Started by Billy, April 01, 2011, 08:19:43 PM

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Billy

AH!!!! April fools!!!!! All is well!
love you guys!
1983 Com-Pac 19 I hull number 35 -no name-

David

I remembered it was April Fools after I read it in your post,  but my heart sank immediately after reading/seeing subject line, as I know how much I love my boat.

Billy

1983 Com-Pac 19 I hull number 35 -no name-

Bob23

You dog! That's not funny! Well, yes it is...glad someone remembered. This was a sparse April fools day up here- no pranks, jokes or shanigans! Hope that doesn't mean I'm gettin' old!
Bob23

kickingbug1

 as long as someone didnt say "hey buddy your boat sunk" im happy. that would have been bad news for my garage i expect
oday 14 daysailor, chrysler musketeer cat, chrysler mutineer, com-pac 16-1 "kicknbug" renamed "audrey j", catalina capri 18 "audrey j"

Tim Gardner

Probably the best April Fool's joke I have ever pulled was on a buddy who bragged every year that he had never fallen for an April Fools' prank. 

This pal of mine owned an 18 foot runabout with a GM Iron Maiden four banger - 140 HP in the rear. Because he was a good friend, and I had an open slip in my dock behind the house, I offered to let him keep the boat there.  For two seasons all was uneventful.  However, the next very rainy Thanksgiving day, his bilge pump failed and his craft went under in the wee hours of the morning.  I awoke to look down at the dock to see just the tip of the bow of his boat in the slip.  The mooring lines in the rear were the only thing keeping the boat from a 14' watery dip.

Well, I called Dennis over to the house to show him the damage the rain had wrought.  We spent that day raising her, draining the water from the engine and filling the block with diesel fuel to displace leftover water.  After a couple of weeks of too much work, his boat was once again afloat with not one, but two bilge pumps and an extra battery backup.

Flash forward four months - After an extremely rainy (3" in four hrs.) early April first, I stood (at 6:00am) looking down at the lake and was relieved to see my buddy's boat floating happily in her slip. 

Then wicked, wicked thoughts filled my mind as I remembered what day it was.   I brewed a pot of coffee, and set my plan in motion.

I called (woke him up from a deep Saturday morning sleep) Dennis and said in an alarming tone of voice that he needed to get dressed and over here a quick as possible - His boat had sunk and only one line was keeping her from sliding into the deep section of the lake (75').   

His immediate response was "Cut the freaking rope!"  I prodded him on, telling him I would once again help him raise it in the still pouring rain.

I met him at the door with a cup of coffee in My pajamas with the "April Fools!!" he so richly deserved.  Nearly lost a friendship over that one.

He eventually laughed it off, drank the coffee, and muttered something that ended with
'hole' at the end of it as he went back home.

Dennis has since passed away but every April fool's day I think of Dennis and the look on his face.  Priceless!!

TG
Never Be Afraid to Try Something New, Remember Amateurs Built the Ark.  Professionals Built the Titanic (update) and the Titan Submersible.

Billy

Great story Tim! I'll have to keep that one in my back pocket.
1983 Com-Pac 19 I hull number 35 -no name-