Boating is fun!

"vicali" (vicali)
05/16/2019 at 12:24 • Filed to: None

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Plus a little EV fire to warm up..

DISCUSSION (35)

Mercedes Streeter > vicali
05/16/2019 at 12:29

Why did you jump??? Last time I checked, boats float! And even ones still connected to trailers will at least float long enough for you to casually depart. *facepalm*

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > vicali
05/16/2019 at 12:30

So glad you posted this.

functionoverfashion > Mercedes Streeter
05/16/2019 at 12:31

This is like the marine version of WHY DID YOU TURN

edit- I guess there was no one in the car, and he was trying to get back in and stop it in time? Still.....

vicali > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
05/16/2019 at 12:31

Kinja kinja’d my kinja link..

https://www.castanet.net/edition/news-story-256413-3-.htm#256413

vicali > Mercedes Streeter
05/16/2019 at 12:33

He already had his lifejacket on, should’ve ridden it out for sure..

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > vicali
05/16/2019 at 12:33

Yes, boating is fun

OPPOsaurus WRX > vicali
05/16/2019 at 12:34

and the most s hocking part of this is that Mitsubishi not only makes a vehicles still but an electric on none the less.

vicali > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
05/16/2019 at 12:34

https://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/256086/Bad-break-for-boat

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > vicali
05/16/2019 at 12:35

Castanet is such an odd name for a news site. It always bugs me

lone_liberal > vicali
05/16/2019 at 12:36

So many, many questions (parking brake?) but N umber 1 is, why was he in the boat when it was on the ramp? You get things ready before you back down the ramp. That’s just basic boat launching etiquette.

vicali > OPPOsaurus WRX
05/16/2019 at 12:36

Kinja'd!!!

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > functionoverfashion
05/16/2019 at 12:37

The fact that no one is in the car confuses me even more.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > lone_liberal
05/16/2019 at 12:38

Clearly he has no clue what he’s doing...I think that pretty much covers all your questions.

vicali > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
05/16/2019 at 12:39

It started as a Kelowna buy/sell message board that went onto news.. I think they just got bought by big news, Glacier Media I believe..

The Ghost of Oppo > vicali
05/16/2019 at 12:43

How does that happen? Did the locked tires lose traction on the wet cement?

functionoverfashion > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
05/16/2019 at 12:44

S elf-launching, I guess. If the ramp isn’t busy, it’s no big deal. But umm I would recommend a wheel chock.

Kinja'd!!!

DipodomysDeserti > vicali
05/16/2019 at 12:44

Looks like he was hoping for Jesus to take the wheel. He almost met him after jumping in front of his moving vehicle.

Pickup_man > vicali
05/16/2019 at 12:46

Don’t prep your boat on the f’in ramp. The ramp is for launching and loading only. I award zero sympathy points and may God have mercy on your soul.

functionoverfashion > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
05/16/2019 at 12:47

That video always makes me sick and yet, I believe everyone was more or less OK as in, not dead or maimed. Amazingly. It’s like, “oh, THAT’S why they put padded upholstery on the insides of the cockpit.”

shop-teacher > vicali
05/16/2019 at 12:48

A family friend did this once many years ago. Well, not the jumping out of the boat and almost getting run over part, just the dunking the family conversion van into Lake Michigan part. He didn’t use the parking brake, and the park pawl on the transmission broke. In it went!

functionoverfashion > lone_liberal
05/16/2019 at 12:49

If he was self-launching, he would have had to leave the car there while he docked the boat. If it’s not a busy ramp, this would be fine. In theory, that is.

vicali > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
05/16/2019 at 12:51

He’s got the leg down on the ramp, you can hear it dragging...

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > functionoverfashion
05/16/2019 at 12:54

But still...it’s like the vehicle is in neutral.

functionoverfashion > shop-teacher
05/16/2019 at 12:56

This was at my local ramp 2 years ago:

Kinja'd!!!

functionoverfashion > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
05/16/2019 at 12:57

I agree... I wonder if he was relying only on the parking brake, and it failed? It looked like it was moving fast.

Gerry197 > Mercedes Streeter
05/16/2019 at 13:22

I think he was jumping off so he can get in his vehicle and stop it from continue to slide down the ramp.

shop-teacher > functionoverfashion
05/16/2019 at 13:54

Offffffff!

Mercedes Streeter > Gerry197
05/16/2019 at 14:25

Fair enough! Still, I totally couldn’t see that having any other result than either getting run over or beaten up by your own car.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > OPPOsaurus WRX
05/16/2019 at 15:25

Except it is a plug in hybrid, not an EV.

OPPOsaurus WRX > BaconSandwich is tasty.
05/16/2019 at 15:44

i mean it has batteries and an electric motor so close enough I guess.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > OPPOsaurus WRX
05/16/2019 at 17:53

Eh, it just kind of annoys me when the news tries to sensationalize that EVs are terrible. Had this been a gas or diesel vehicle, they wouldn’t have even mentioned it.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > vicali
05/16/2019 at 19:02

Hmmm... maybe he should have put it back into the water to put out the fire...

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
05/16/2019 at 19:08

Yeah... I took my boating license and took the studying seriously avoid shit like that.

The driver was a complete idiot. T hey are REALLY lucky nobody got thrown overboard... which could have lead to serious injury or death if the person came in contact with the propeller.

vicali > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
05/16/2019 at 19:11

L et it soak longer you think?

Kinja'd!!!

functionoverfashion > vicali
05/20/2019 at 13:12

This made it to the Jalop FP just now by the way, haha.

It does include an explanation of what happened, though. I guess the guy had his drive trimmed down (or rather, he didn’t trim it up before pulling it). So he heard it scraping, got out to trim it up, and didn’t put the car in park or set the brake - the skeg at the bottom of the drive on the boat was holding it all in place. As soon as he trimmed it up, it was all over.

Still, wow.