How Not to Park Your Boat

hackeysaky

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I'd like to join the classic hull/Ocean Runner party.

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The Bimini top drives me a bit nuts (much prefer unobstructed 360 access) but wife and two of my kids are fair skinned so it gets us on the water more often/longer, particularly on hot summer days.

'nuff room to fish with my partner off the bow.

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oneworlded

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Surf looks fun. Guessing some dredging is needed at this inlet.

Jeez. Cardinal rule. Learn a lesson from this any of you non-boaters. 1. Go into the waves at a slight angle if at all possible. 2. Don't let a wave overtake you from astearn. Shoots what a dummy.
<<Update>>Read the Youtube comments. Looks likely he was turning to avoid running over the surfers - whiche he would have done if he'd kept going out. Had kids in the boat - only one with life jacket.
Shoots, what an idiot.
 

oneworlded

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Jeez. Cardinal rule. Learn a lesson from this any of you non-boaters. 1. Go into the waves at a slight angle if at all possible. 2. Don't let a wave overtake you from astearn. Shoots what a dummy.
<<Update>>Read the Youtube comments. Looks likely he was turning to avoid running over the surfers - whiche he would have done if he'd kept going out. Had kids in the boat - only one with life jacket.
Shoots, what an idiot.
How'd you like to have been out there surfing amidst all this?
 

LelandCuz

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Beach Launch Gone Wrong.

In some places is "ski boat" a term for any small motor boat, like how people in western states call sneakers "tennis shoes"? I ask because that's clearly 2 engines on a twin hull. It's a little fishing boat that no one would ever water ski behind.
 
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I always loved watching idiot weekend warriors take bass boats through our breachway in Rhode Island. Never went well. You
 

GromsDad

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I'd like to join the classic hull/Ocean Runner party.

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The Bimini top drives me a bit nuts (much prefer unobstructed 360 access) but wife and two of my kids are fair skinned so it gets us on the water more often/longer, particularly on hot summer days.

'nuff room to fish with my partner off the bow.

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Nice! That is a killer classic BW. This may be blasphemy but I actually prefer Bimini Tops to T-tops on boats less than 25 feet. They're just in the way on smaller boats. I'll never have a T-top on my 23 Mako and my father's Key West that he keeps in Florida has a Bimini on it. The beauty of a Bimini is you can take it down or take it completely off the boat in seconds. Bimini also gives you better sun protection than a T-top ever will. Lastly, friends don't let friends put those instant T-top in a box contraptions on their boats. If you're gonna get a T-top do it right and it isn't going to be cheap.
 

twinzerfan

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Nice! That is a killer classic BW. This may be blasphemy but I actually prefer Bimini Tops to T-tops on boats less than 25 feet. They're just in the way on smaller boats. I'll never have a T-top on my 23 Mako and my father's Key West that he keeps in Florida has a Bimini on it. The beauty of a Bimini is you can take it down or take it completely off the boat in seconds. Bimini also gives you better sun protection than a T-top ever will. Lastly, friends don't let friends put those instant T-top in a box contraptions on their boats. If you're gonna get a T-top do it right and it isn't going to be cheap.
where I live in Florida, there’s loads of low bridges that you can’t get unde with a hard top at high tide. Bimini topped boat go whenever they want. I second the shade aspect as well. All our boats in the Bahama have bimini tops as well.

those cheap t top kits are disaster waiting to happen
 

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where I live in Florida, there’s loads of low bridges that you can’t get unde with a hard top at high tide. Bimini topped boat go whenever they want. I second the shade aspect as well. All our boats in the Bahama have bimini tops as well.

those cheap t top kits are disaster waiting to happen
I can dig the 'get around the hull' aspect of having a TTop when navigating a fishing rod, but they generallly provide so much less shade than a bimini. Plus of course, the low bridge aspect. We have 7 foot tides here in Charleston regularly, and a few sketchy underpasses when it's real high. I'll keep the bimini.
 

twinzerfan

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Yeah, fishing with bimini top can be a pain. You can drop it of course, but then you have a chance of tripping over it, lol

i am looking for a 17’ jon boat nowadays. Simple, low maintenance, but definitely will need a top of some kind when not fishing