I will say, probably the most stupid move that I was apart of that anybody actually saw was me loading a bubble butt Ski Nautique and it fell off the trailer. But it wasn’t my fault.
I was a disinterested 3rd party giving a good look over and test drive on a local SN for an out of state guy. Overall the boat failed performance wise (cosmetics was 85%) and I knew friend wouldn’t have bought it at the point. The seller asked me what I thought as he was rather proud of the boat and I had to be honest. Come time to load boat, seller does the truck, wants me to do the boat. He’s got the tunes on in truck, windows up, Florida in February so ac was probably on high. He backs the Ramlin trailer way down the ramp. I mean fenders 3’ under water. I thought this is gonna load like shit but I already gave the seller a bad report, I already came off like a know it all ass because the boat had problems that I picked up right away...., I’ll just for the first time zip my lips and ride this out. I drive boat to crash pads, boat 100% floating on its own. Seller hooks safety chain but the safety clasp was broken on the safety hook. Something I already pointed out ?♂️. Seller drives out of ramp. Boat comes forward with trailer some but mind you it’s floating very much on its own, not resting on the wish bone. It floats enough to knock the broken safety hook off the bow, as the weight of boat and the angle of the dangle changes boat starts to slide off the trailer. I’m jumping, hollering, waving, honking a broken horn (that I already pointed out) Joe Cool Seller sees nothing. Bam, boat falls off trailer and is sitting on the ramp. Surprisingly enough it happened so slow that there was no gelcoat damage and prop shaft was still within .003”. Evidently a buyer across country bought it sight unseen.