brock1
New Member
Well i had another mishap on the bay and although i wasnt out there as long i think this one takes the cake......So last night my GF had a friend come up to visit from chicago...she had never been on a pwc before so we decided what better way to break her in than to take her on the bay.... I know that i am going to get LOTS of criticism for this but i dont care........so i get out of work at 7pm last night and head riught home and hook the trailer up...we grab three lifejackets and a tube to pull behind the ski...everything is going great we stop and gas her up this time (fill this time) LOL then we head out and launch...now the place we launch at has about a 10-15 min no wake zone out around the pier....so i let them ride the ski out and i just walked down the pier to the end and met them ......its pretty shallow for about 100 yards out from the pier on all sides so i get in the water and strat walikng with the tube and meet up with them...i hook the tube on and of course i have to ride the darn thing first ...... so they pull me aorund for a while and everything is gong great...keep in mind that we only have 1 ski becasue the GSX is broken.... and the ski we have is my 96 XP...somehow in the process of them beating the hell out fo me on the tube we ended up about a mile from shore...it was pretty calm out just a little choppy so we stopped to take a break and i offered to drive and pull both of them..they agreed and i seen her unhook the lanyard from the vest and it was on the post..her friend jumps off and then she jumps off...i swim up to the ski hop on and and go to grab the lanyad and ITS GONE 
uke: ...somehow in the transition it got knocked off and apparently they dont float ......so now we are a mile out on the bay with a realistically 1 person ski with three of us floating in the water and no way to start the ski....now of course this is all my fault you know......so to make a long story short we were in the water from 7:30 to 12:00 trying to swim this thing to shore in the dark...by the way i had a whistle, fire extinguisher, flares , cell phone(no service) and a first aid kit....none of those do any good on the bay when there is NOBODY around you..... we finally got to shore after walking through a bed of rocks that were covered with zebra mussels..(my feet look like i sent them through a meat grinder) and got off the water and returned home safely........lesson learned????? YUP im done on that part of the bay for a while and i will never go out with only one ski again
uke: ...somehow in the transition it got knocked off and apparently they dont float ......so now we are a mile out on the bay with a realistically 1 person ski with three of us floating in the water and no way to start the ski....now of course this is all my fault you know......so to make a long story short we were in the water from 7:30 to 12:00 trying to swim this thing to shore in the dark...by the way i had a whistle, fire extinguisher, flares , cell phone(no service) and a first aid kit....none of those do any good on the bay when there is NOBODY around you..... we finally got to shore after walking through a bed of rocks that were covered with zebra mussels..(my feet look like i sent them through a meat grinder) and got off the water and returned home safely........lesson learned????? YUP im done on that part of the bay for a while and i will never go out with only one ski again
