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Discussion => The No Wake Zone => Topic started by: 78BAHNER on September 30, 2011, 05:53:54 PM

Title: never let the wife drive
Post by: 78BAHNER on September 30, 2011, 05:53:54 PM
  :) was in Blythe last sat.it was at the end of a perf day..wife wanted to drive the boat one last time going up river not to far past the 10fwy...so i tell her to hit it so she does... so as she's  letting off the gas  doing maybe 55  :o we hit a wake..we go one way boat go's the other she flys my way as i hit the side of the boat breaking 5 ribs,small laceration to kidney as we both go in the drink,,they airlifted me to palm springs hospital spent 4 days there. as for the wife she has lots of bumps and bruises....

(want to thank everybody that help out)
Title: Re: never let the wife drive
Post by: 76NORDIC on September 30, 2011, 06:15:04 PM
Dammnn dude glad to hear it didn't turn out even worse. Give me a call sometime     Mark
Title: Re: never let the wife drive
Post by: Willow Wog on September 30, 2011, 06:17:32 PM
Holy shit man! I'm glad you guys arent hurt to bad.
Title: Re: never let the wife drive
Post by: 78BAHNER on September 30, 2011, 06:27:21 PM
Ya i try not to think how bad it could of been.....got a nice crack in the boat were I hit it..
Title: Re: never let the wife drive
Post by: 75 fantasy on September 30, 2011, 07:11:55 PM
It sounds like you guys are on the road to a full recovery  :thumbup:
how bad did it scare her? poor thing she's probably never going to drive it again or at least not that fast.
Other than the broken ribs, internal bleeding,stress of it all... how was the helicopter ride? ;D
get well you two.   
Title: Re: never let the wife drive
Post by: 78BAHNER on September 30, 2011, 07:37:13 PM
She said she didn't want to get back in it..told her u fall off you have to get back on it...the helly ride suck was strapped down to a back broad.. ;D
Title: never let the wife drive
Post by: lbhsbz on September 30, 2011, 07:50:01 PM
Glad you're both ok.  You'll be back in the boat as soon as you heal up....and you'll both be better drivers.
Title: Re: never let the wife drive
Post by: ka0tyk on September 30, 2011, 09:03:01 PM
Scary stuff.  Glad to hear things ended up okay in the end. I recently posted about a little scare I had where we hit a wake and got 360ed.  Could've easily been tossed out or worse.  I always have to watch things when I let the gf drive... when I see her angled up for a wake I point in the direction she needs to go.  You'd think driving a boat is easy but there's sooooo many things you need to keep an eye on.  Makes me think sometimes about wearing a lifejacket at all times. 

When you got tossed what happened did you have to climb back in with the injuries or did someone see and help out? 
Title: Re: never let the wife drive
Post by: IRRebel on September 30, 2011, 09:05:56 PM
Wowza! Sounds bad, but also sounds like it coulda been a whole lot worse!

Glad everyones, well, kinda OK after that!  :thumbup:

Ray
Title: never let the wife drive
Post by: More2LifeThanMPG on September 30, 2011, 09:21:00 PM
Holy cow... Well at least it's all healable injuries. Glad to hear your both doing okay now. This kind of stuff always worries me, that's why I want to get my girl very used to the boat. And yeah there is a lot of stuff to watch out for out there, even mote so with all those big a55 wakeboard boats.


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Title: Re: never let the wife drive
Post by: BIG JOHNSON on September 30, 2011, 11:43:12 PM
Yeah my old lady cant read water. 
Title: Re: never let the wife drive
Post by: 78BAHNER on October 01, 2011, 10:02:16 AM
Frist thing i look to c if my wife was ok,someone was already there to help her so I swam back to the boat and climbed up on the deck two guys then came and help me back to the launch ramp...after all this I'll be wearing a life jacket...
Title: Re: never let the wife drive
Post by: mobboss on October 01, 2011, 03:43:18 PM
glad to hear you and your wife are ok!!! dam!!! You know i have been looking into wearing a vest anytime im moving in a boat too!!! lifeline makes some nice ones!!!
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