Good boat clip from a great movie...

[Billy]

And I think I may have to name my boat after her......"The Flying Wasp."

http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=8861

[Bob23]

Thanks, Billy. Boating safety at it's finest!
Bob23

[Craig Weis]

Always enjoyed this guy. "Hey, you scratched my anchor" must not have taken the United States Power Boat and Sail Safety Course we teach in the USPS.

www.usps.org

www.usps.org/door/

Years ago in high school we were houseboating up the Illinois River, just locked up and nudged the boat into a nice comfortable plan and this yahoo in his I/O fast boat kept circling us and bouncing off our wake. Keeping a sharp eye on that idiot...it was the coolest thing to see his shiny fiberglass bow point straight up, and the stern straight down, as his boat became smaller and smaller and sank lower and lower into the 4 knot currant heading back toward the lock and dam.

Sure enough this yahoo was spotted swimming about. My dad said,  "Lets come about and pick him up." He had no PFD on. So I set the over the side ladder and we drifted down on him. He grabbed the ladder and came aboard. I said, "What about his boat." Dad said too late. It's too close to the gates on the dam. [The gates open 'up' and the water flows out from under them, down the spillway.] So dad nosed our boat up onto the beach and invited the guy to step off his boat. It was about a half mile walk to town through the muddy beach and scruffy tree line. Never heard another word about it. Nor saw that boater again. Last I saw his boat it was swamped to the gunnel's and heading toward the spillway. It was a nice boat with a bad captain.

skip.

[crazycarl]

Hey!  I think I know that guy! 

I'll bet he was the boater that pulled the skier into the side of our boat during a fishing tournament a couple of years back!

[Billy]

Just saw this. I would say instead of a "good' clip from a "great" movie, more like a "great" clip from a "good" movie.

please click the link below for your viewing pleasure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8alNxLjCBJc&feature=player_embedded

[lostsailor101]

Two classic clips....Thanks for sharing

[Joseph]

That clip from Captn Ron's docking Wanderer is a superb example of how to put the propwalk to good use. In most sailboats with inboard motors the propeller is clockwise and the propwalk favours turning to starboard and docking to port. Obviously that good old Formosa 51 ketch cutter must have had a rare counterclockwise propeller... Better find out which direction yours turns before trying to emulate Captn Ron...

PS.- Or, in case anyone wishes to try the "real thing"... http://www.yachtworld.com/boats/1978/Formosa-Cutter-Rigged-Ketch-2076793/Kemah/TX/United-States

J.