Had I followed this sage advice, I would not have lost all of my firearms in that tragic boat accident.
Who knew a canoe was not the best way to transport a gun safe across Lake Superior?
Ping to our Freeper Gals, you all be careful in your adventures okay? ;)
FReepers are Lousy Boaters) Now why would you say something like that?
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I would also add please make sure your handguns are very well secured as I had taken my new S & W on my fishing trip off San Diego and when I bent over it slid from my holster and an $800 dollar gun is gone. My insurance carrier said it needed to be insured under a special rider so I guess I will just have to take the loss.
Thank you for the safety tips!
While I have survived my many boating accidents, I have lost a small arsenal of various firearms in the lakes of New Mexico.
Very sad.
In reference to #7, boating sober is like hunting sober...
Personally I have never lost a firearm to a boating accident. I lost mine on a hike when a sudden rift in the earth opened and they fell into hot lava. I hate it when that happens.
Back years ago, my high school son, starting when he was a freshman, worked for free with NASA in the summer, surveying/using scientific measures/chemical analysis, of Clear Creek, a body of water in the NASA area south of Houston (Clear Lake area). By the time he was a senior, he was running that study. He took the Coast Guard boating course and got their certificate. Then, in college, Rice University, took their course for diving/under water exploration and was licensed for that.
All that helped him when he became a director of documentary films which he made across the world, including the North Pole ice sheet and African countries’ lakes, Siberia, the Amazon River, Libyan waterways, Egypt waterways, Israel's coastal waters, etc..
My point is, he was an expert when it came to bodies of water and how to navigate them, HOWEVER, I never trusted him to put ANY of my defensive weapons on any boat, barge, sledge pulled by dogs, police boats, Coast Guard boats, the Alaskan north “water freeze ways”, African waterways.
NEVER put your weapons on anyone’s property that floats (like boats) as they are naturally magnetized to want to lie on the bottom of water. They will jump into water all by themselves and you will never get them back.
I do not care how experienced the person is who is on the water, you are going to lose your freaking weapons if you allow them to be above water - just wait, someone is going to post on this thread that they lost their weapons because they had them above water.
How many more weapons are going to be lost because you do not understand, will not accept, weapons love water, are magnetized to be on the bottom of the water - sheesh, you are so dense not to believe my study of water and weapons.
#1 correlation with boating tragedies is the same as the #1 correlation with swimming, rv, snowmobile, skiing, hunting tragedies. It is the same as the #1 correlation with tragedies in the home, tragedies with guns, tragedies on the highway.
Alcohol statistically has the #1 correlation with most all tragedies.
I just obtained my Dad’s Ranger bass boat. He had it for 28 years and can no longer manage the ins and outs at his age.
I am looking for the smart way to carry on his passion. So ANY advice would be appreciated. It is a very well maintained boat and I have been afforded the luxury of decent weather to test it out on Lake Lanier.
NOW - My guns have not taken a swimming class and will wear life jackets when motoring around. But I cannot prevent them from enjoying the water like I do.
1. Stay off Lake Superior right about now.
I’m 56 and been operating a boat since I was big enough to sit on Daddy’s lap and hold the steering wheel. I fully agree with these tips.
Once I got called over to a dock by the Coast Guard. I was drinking out of a can inside a hugger. the first question was what was I drinking. I pulled the can up to reveal that it was O’Doul’s. Then I was asked for my ID, I gave them my retired Navy ID. They proceeded to do a courtesy safety check, during which I was producing what I was required to have faster than they could ask for it.
Sadly, I no longer have a boat. Had to sell it to retain a divorce lawyer.