When I was young and foolish...

[wildwoodfam]

Having ridden one off our dock many times as a young adventurer - let's say there was one episode -coming down the hill - onto the dock - off the ramp and about 10 feet into the air - only to come down HARD into the water - only I forgot to launch myself up over the bars - and landed squarely on the cross bar - OUCH!!!! I thought I had ruined my chances for fathering children in the future - and as I recall I walked rather oddly for the rest of that summer ... I also remember disassembling an old round kitchen table - and taking a captains chair and sitting it on the table and using the blocks on the underside as anchors for the chair legs - towing that stupid thing around the bay - with a buddy on the chair! We got quite the looks!! Boy was that fun! I also remember taking the canoe over the Mounts wake as it passed the house - that was probably NOT a very intelligent activity - but was fun back then! Oh well - I also recall riding in my grandparents Plymouth Fury III in the middle of the front seat with them travelling up 93 to the lake back in the day... imagine that today - how times and practices have changed!

Originally Posted by RumGuy

Back in the day, we were not fortunate enough to have engineered towables to play with, so in our infinite wisdom, we designed our own. Those ranged from cabinet doors tied to the boat (don't dip the front) to inner tubes (wallow). As a parent now, I know that MY folks were looking out saying "What are those idiots up to now?" How we never drowned, I will never know...
I can tell you that a bicycle stops immediately upon hitting the water from 3 or more feet up, so be sure to get over the handlebars, and no matter how hard you try, a construction wheelbarrow will not stay upright when launched off a dock with an idiot in it. I thought that I had my weight well centered there, too....