So everyone who owns a boat probably has a story about some type of boating mishap, and if you don't you probably haven't been around boats long enough. I've been around boats my whole life and have owned a few. I know boats can be expensive and are a pain to maintain and keep running perfectly but boating is in my blood and my happy place is driving across a lake and totally forgetting about all my other problems and responsibilities. Just last year I rented a house with a dock on Grand Lake O' the Cherokees and took my girlfriend, daughters, and their boyfriends for a 4 day weekend. Some of the boats are enormous on that lake and one boat made such big wave I headed into it straight on in with my 19 foot open bow ski boat and the nose dipped down in the trough of the wave. The water crashed over the bow soaking my daughters then over the windshield drenching me and my girlfriend and they were all laughing hysterically while I was really scared we were going to get swamped! On a later trip to Tenkiller lake we were in a cove tubing and my boat died and wouldn't start. The wind was putting us deeper into the cove and there was no one around to give us a tow. All of them had to grab a rope, including my 61 year old girlfriend, and start swimming. After about 25 minutes of swimming we got out of the cove and a jet ski saw us and towed us back to the dock. We still laugh about that trip and we're all heading to the lake tomorrow for 4 days so maybe we'll bring back some more memories but hopefully no boating problems.
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