Friday Smiles

[AlexL]

As the Darwin awards have been mentioned in a few posts today, I've pinched this off of darwinawards.com website, from the 'honerable mentions' section


(June 1999, California) Last summer down on Lake Isabella, in the high desert east of Bakersfield, a woman was having trouble with her boat.
No matter how she tried, she just couldn't get her new 22-foot Bayliner to perform. It was sluggish in every maneuver, regardless of the power applied. She tried for an hour to make her boat go, but finally gave up and putted over to a nearby Marina for help.

A topside check revealed that everything was in perfect working order. The engine ran fine, the outboard motor pivoted up and down, and the prop was the correct size and pitch.

One of the Marina guys jumped in the water to check beneath the boat. He came up almost choking on water, he was laughing so hard.

Under the boat, still strapped securely in place, was the trailer.



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[Evadne]

I think I saw this one here, but it was while ago:

A bareboat charter crew on a yacht in the carribean called up the lead boat to say they'd run into a magnetic anomoly and couldn't get past it. The boat could be sailed up to this point when it would suddenly veer off, and spill the wind from the sails. They dropped the sails and tried motoring but again, they got to the same point and suddenly the boat veered off and would go no further. The flotilla leader went out to see them, hauled the anchor back in and lashed it down on its chocks.

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