True Trailer Boat Adventures!
If cruising was nothing but blue skies and smooth water, nobody would bother to own a house.
We're nothing if not honest about the various misadventures and outright disasters that can befall the average trailer boater. Learn from our mistakes and see how others overcame their adversities on the water.
The Mother's Day Waverunner Eating Incident
This story goes all the way back to 1995 and, although it happened aboard one of my trailerable sailboats, we had a summer dock that year, so it isn't technically a trailer boat story. It is, however, true and happened at one of the lakes that I've written a guide for, so I've decided that it deserves a place in the archives. As this happened before the age when we all had digital cameras built into our cell phones (most of us didn’t have cell phones yet for that matter), I don't have a single photo to go with the story. ...Read more
Running Hard Aground off Put-in-Bay
The story you are about to read took place on a sunny Thursday morning in August during my first cruise with Admiral Barb. We had owned the little O'Day 22, Wanderlust (named in recognition of my recently acknowledged need to have a boat to wander off in from time to time) for over two months and this was only the second time we had put the boat in the water. Wanderlust had spent the bulk of the summer in our back yard awaiting the arrival of a new trailer axle, and after ten weeks of owning a boat that I couldn't use, I was itching to get out on the water. Once the trailer upgrades had been completed and she was safe to tow, I decided to take Barb on a trip to Put-in-Bay and Kelleys Island to break the boat in. ...Read more
The Final Journey of Rusty the Jeep
It had been a perfect trip so far. I had spent the previous day cruising Sandusky Bay, taking pictures for that guide. I was feeling a little beat up after fighting the choppy waters of the entrance channel off Cedar Point for longer than I had expected to and I decided to treat myself to a night at a cheap motel I knew of just outside of Toledo. The next morning, I headed out for the next leg of my trip, a two-day cruise of Anchor Bay on Lake St. Clair, just past Detroit. ...Read more