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Jet Boat Junkie
- Messages
- 249
- Reaction score
- 186
- Points
- 147
- Location
- North Fort Worth TX
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2007
- Boat Model
- SX
- Boat Length
- 23
I'm lucky to be alive and still have all my limbs.
So I had a very weird day Saturday. After my youngest daughter puking all over the inside of my truck while getting the boat ready to trailer to the lake. I ended up making it to the lake with out my wife and my sick daughter. They stayed home. I had my two oldest girls (8 and 5) and sister and her two kids (9 and 3). We had some fun tubing the kids around for a couple of hours but I couldn't take my eyes off my new wakeboard hanging in the rack. I decided that I could teach my sister to drive the boat so I could wakeboard. I emphasized over and over how important it was not to run over the rope! So I decided that when I fall for her to pull the rope into the boat before she comes around to pick me up. She at that time made a foreshadowing comment that the boat is more important than I am.
So after I went down on the wakeboard. She had her son pull the rope in and then turned around to get me. She was coming straight at me slowly but veered upwind before she got to me. When I was directly beside the boat the wind pushed the boat right over me. I couldn't swim out if the way with the wakeboard still on my feet. All I could do was yell your running me over and push with my legs the wakeboard against the hull of the boat. I don't remember much once I went underwater but remember popping out of the water directly behind the stern of the boat. I was pretty freaked out but was a little surprised she didn't think it was that big of a deal.
Anyways I'm really lucky that there was not a huge prop in the water and really lucky I didn't get sucked up into the pumps. I think that it's possible the excess straps on my life jacket could have been sucked into the pump and I could have drowned. I don't blame my sister it's ultimately my fault for wanting to wakeboard so bad that I let an inexperienced driver operate the boat.
Just wanted to share my experience of being ran over by my own boat.
So I had a very weird day Saturday. After my youngest daughter puking all over the inside of my truck while getting the boat ready to trailer to the lake. I ended up making it to the lake with out my wife and my sick daughter. They stayed home. I had my two oldest girls (8 and 5) and sister and her two kids (9 and 3). We had some fun tubing the kids around for a couple of hours but I couldn't take my eyes off my new wakeboard hanging in the rack. I decided that I could teach my sister to drive the boat so I could wakeboard. I emphasized over and over how important it was not to run over the rope! So I decided that when I fall for her to pull the rope into the boat before she comes around to pick me up. She at that time made a foreshadowing comment that the boat is more important than I am.
So after I went down on the wakeboard. She had her son pull the rope in and then turned around to get me. She was coming straight at me slowly but veered upwind before she got to me. When I was directly beside the boat the wind pushed the boat right over me. I couldn't swim out if the way with the wakeboard still on my feet. All I could do was yell your running me over and push with my legs the wakeboard against the hull of the boat. I don't remember much once I went underwater but remember popping out of the water directly behind the stern of the boat. I was pretty freaked out but was a little surprised she didn't think it was that big of a deal.
Anyways I'm really lucky that there was not a huge prop in the water and really lucky I didn't get sucked up into the pumps. I think that it's possible the excess straps on my life jacket could have been sucked into the pump and I could have drowned. I don't blame my sister it's ultimately my fault for wanting to wakeboard so bad that I let an inexperienced driver operate the boat.
Just wanted to share my experience of being ran over by my own boat.
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