My Swim Deck DID Float!!!

(rmdanie) · (rmdanie) **Join Date: Jun 2007** 05-13-2008, 7:19 PM

I put an ad on our local radio swap shop program offering 100 bucks reward if anyone could point me towards my swimdeck that I lost several weeks ago. Bingo someone called. Judging by where it was found, it floated about half a mile and was in the water approximately 3 weeks.

SO STOKED!!!

(chpthril) · (chpthril) **Join Date: Oct 2007** 05-13-2008, 7:25 PM

Glad you found it, but, I gotta ask, how do you loose a swim platform???

I gotta here this one!

(shesfearless) · (shesfearless) **Join Date: Oct 2007** 05-13-2008, 7:29 PM

Eek. Just what I was thinking.

(cavlxenvy) · (cavlxenvy) **Join Date: Aug 2007** 05-13-2008, 7:37 PM

Wow. I remember this post. Congrats man. $100 is much cheaper than what it would cost for a new platform.

(cavlxenvy) · (cavlxenvy) **Join Date: Aug 2007** 05-13-2008, 7:38 PM

Be lucky someone didn't hit it and blame you.

(rmdanie) · (rmdanie) **Join Date: Jun 2007** 05-13-2008, 7:53 PM

Ryan, you are right. I knew I was exposing myself for potential damage liability but I decided to give it a try. Mike and SJ, I forgot to put my pins in the platform one day. I hit my own rollers while pulling a rider in a narrow pulling area and it must have shot down beneath the surface of the water. My rider later fell and was like, "Dude, where is your step". I was pretty tore up over it. WE searched forever and never found it. I concluded that it sank until I read on the supra forum that they are built to float.

I am thinking that when it came off, it shot down a few feet beneath the surface. I think it then maintained its boyancy instead of surfacing. The lake was flooded and dropping 1.5 ft per day so I was hopeful that it would wash up in a bay and sure enough, it actually was deposited on one of the flooded campsites.

YIPEE SKIPEE

(chpthril) · (chpthril) **Join Date: Oct 2007** 05-13-2008, 8:03 PM

That is unreal, but glad you found it as they are not cheap.

I think most of us have done something like this in our lives, boating related or not.

(fulltilt429) · (fulltilt429) **Join Date: Apr 2007** 05-13-2008, 8:06 PM

lol... Arkansas... nuff said... jk

(srh00z) · (srh00z) **Join Date: Jun 2003** 05-13-2008, 9:23 PM

Glad you found it, I am sure you are relieved.

nwwakerider 05-13-2008, 9:30 PM

I felt bad when I read your post about it falling off your boat. Congrats on getting it back as such a good price compared to buying a new one. Better remember to put the pins in for now on.

(richnnorcal) · (richnnorcal) **Join Date: Mar 2008** 05-13-2008, 9:50 PM

Good karma, you must be a cool/good guy! I remember the story and seeing the post in the classified section "need platform" I'm sure you'll be more than happy to remove that post!

(westsidarider)

dude you posted loosing it almost a month ago. glad you found it. you must have some good karma workin on your side

(garret_s) · (garret_s) **Join Date: Apr 2006** 05-13-2008, 11:43 PM

lol...that is hilarious. Congrats.

(rmdanie) · (rmdanie) **Join Date: Jun 2007** 05-14-2008, 12:04 AM

We try to live right but I never expected to see the swim deck again. That probably sucked up the remaining balance of good karma for me. I am just stoked I don't have to buy another/wonder if the old sank or float, and that I can now quit using the wakeplate as a step...

4 weeks is amazing to have it show back up...

Ryan

(helix_rider) · (helix_rider) **Join Date: Mar 2003** 05-14-2008, 4:58 AM

Great news Ryan, and don't worry about the karma thing, boating season is just starting....you'll have plenty of opportunities to help out other boaters this summer, whether it's teaching them how to load/unload their boat, teaching someone new to board, or towing a dude whose boat broke down in the middle of the lake...the 'karma bank' will be full in no time. :-)

(ncsuuh) · (ncsuuh) **Join Date: Jan 2007** 05-14-2008, 7:41 AM

This happened to my dad last summer. The teak fell off the mounting brackets while driving. It was a good thing someone was riding because he would have never noticed it. He was able to stop and put it back in the boat.

(misteve) · (misteve) **Join Date: Aug 2007** 05-14-2008, 8:05 AM

WOW! I remember reading your thread about having lost it. Glad to hear you found it. And that someone was nice enough to turn it in. Was it a boarder, fisherman?

(johnsvt) · (johnsvt) **Join Date: Dec 2006** 05-14-2008, 10:27 AM

congrats

(slipknot) · (slipknot) **Join Date: Aug 2001** 05-14-2008, 11:01 AM

That has to be the luckiest story I have heard on these boards for the last 9 years

Congratulations!

(tinytdubb) · (tinytdubb) **Join Date: Jul 2007** 05-14-2008, 12:40 PM

where did they find it?

(h20jnky) · (h20jnky) **Join Date: Mar 2003** 05-14-2008, 1:27 PM

you're lucky that campers didn't use it for firewood..

(brucemac) · (brucemac) **Join Date: Dec 2005** 05-14-2008, 2:36 PM

hey that's awesome, great news!

(ridealready) · (ridealready) **Join Date: Feb 2006** 05-14-2008, 9:35 PM

You need to go buy a lottery ticket. That is ridiculous. Happy you got it back!