chevin wrote: If you haven't launched a boat without the bungs in, you have never owned a boat.
yep, did just that with my first boat,an old haines at st. kilda about 5 am middle of winter. parked the trailer and got back to the boat and realised with half the boat full of water that the bungs weren't in!! By the time I got the car and hitched the boat back up it was nearly full and the hiace nearly did a piston getting the thing out !Anyway it turned out to be a ripper day. we bagged out on whiting and got heaps of gar,tommies and squid and on the way in got stuck into some salmon trout by