does worst hunting trip work here?
About 20 years ago, my son, (then 13 yrs. old) and I were coming back to the camp from an afternoon duck hunting trip in my small mudboat when I got distracted just as I was coming into a curve in the bayou. I think I was checking the water level in the bilge, but that doesn't matter. Because of the cold, my son had his back to the front of the boat so he couldn't warn me about what was about to happen. Anyway, as I looked up (yep, I know, I was stupid), we proceeded to hit the bank, just missing a very large tree, and went about twenty yards into "solid" ground before our forward momentum was abruptly halted throwing him off the front of the boat and throwing me into the front of the boat. After making sure he was okay and hugging him knowing that I almost killed both of us, I surveyed the scene, i.e. almost dark thirty, a weekday on a very secluded bayou with not much hope of anyone arriving until the next morning and twenty yards up on the bank into the woods.
Won't bore you with the details, but suffice to say that we found some broken logs which we placed under the boat by prying each side up with another log, then, very slowly worked the front end of the boat until it was somewhat facing the water. Started the engine and with both of pushing on the back, I floored the accelerator with a branch (the boat had a car like accelerator pedal) and the boat slowing started moving. After a lot of back and forth, I was finally able to blow out a hole and away we went.
Lesson learned and no, there was no akeehall involved, just stupidity.
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