Spring Break @ The Launch! It was NUTS!

Welcome back to the Channel this week! We’ve got some exciting things Happening here in Orange Beach Alabama. It’s The Wharf Boat Show in Orange Beach as well as SPRING BREAK across the country. The Ramps are fixing to be packed and so people are getting out for the first time of the season. These clowns never cease to amaze me.
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[@mhughes1160]

Smash the subscribe button like the first guy smashed the dock . LoL 😂

[@TheBigDanShow]

😂😂😂😂yeessss

[@Ray56z]

Good way to start the day, some laughs brought by Big Dan! Thanx!

[@TheBigDanShow]

Thanks my friend. It was a good day! Will be dropping another video by the end of the week! 💪💪

[@robkeeney8227]

I don't care if my wife can cook or clean as long as she can back down a trailer. 🤩

[@TheBigDanShow]

I know that to be true 👌💪

[@PatrickHoodDaniel]

The current was evident from the pontoon. You can see the SH coming in and the current took his a little port. He did a great job correcting!

[@TheBigDanShow]

Current was less than 1kt. Wind was busy though

[@fewridge6479]

Nice to see you back home again Dan. Semper Fi

[@TheBigDanShow]

Thanks my friend.

[@stuartpeck8169]

Don’t think we’ll ever put the family boat in saltwater. Trying to preserve it. 1989 Sunbird Corsica 195 As for my JetSki, I’ll be down there in Orange Beach for the week in between Christmas and New Year’s

[@TheBigDanShow]

Nice!!

[@stuartpeck8169]

@@TheBigDanShow thank you. Been in my family since 2005 so it’s been almost 20 years since 6 year old me had his first boat ride

[@1sicsrt]

Love your channel, bud, watch all your videos the second they come out. Love the content. It's always great when your wife and offspring come along, too. But I gotta say, I don't know where y'all got "Punch Buggy" from, but we've always known it as "Slug Bug", rolls off the tongue easier and sounds better 😉. Keep up the good work!

[@TheBigDanShow]

Thanks my friend. I appreciate the kind words and support 💪

[@mechanicmike2858]

Let me tell you something... The Big Dan show will never let ya down !!! get ya some of that !!!

[@TheBigDanShow]

Thanks hoss! 💪💪

[@Vic-usa]

Thanks for the entertainment Big Dan. Its nice to see our local boat ramp shenanigans. Im the one on the Cyan ski in the video. Nice shots. 👍

[@TheBigDanShow]

Niceeee!!

[@kls2020]

The problem I keep seeing with new boaters is they buy a big boat having no experience with any kind of boat . Years ago it seemed most people would start out with smaller boats as kids or teens and work up to progressively bigger boats as they could afford it gaining valuable experience along the way . I had an older coworker who decided he was going to get a boat and start boating . I suggested he take the Coast Guard boating course which he scoffed at . He was driving at speed and accidentally discovered what the transom trim tab controls did and scared the heck out of him when his boat hooked abruptly to the right .

[@TheBigDanShow]

Oooof

[@dwayneroberts6616]

I'm a new boater this shiot ain't easy😂. Boats don't drive like a car. They don't like slow maneuvers with currents pulling and pushing them. They tend to develop an attitude 😂 and the dock and ramps become like magnets 😅

[@TheBigDanShow]

😂🤣🤣😂 it’ll get easy over time. Keep at it

[@silvergreg1]

Good video! A little bit of everything going on!

[@TheBigDanShow]

Glad you liked it!

[@Hans_Wermhat]

Best advice I got for backing down a ramp was from an old-timer. Said to put the tailgate down and watch closer to the tounge of the trailer than the guides.

[@TheBigDanShow]

💪

[@andrewshuford]

The boat ramp has no rules 😂

[@TheBigDanShow]

Place is out of control! 😂😂

[@marynoble7941]

Love your Show Big Dan! We watch it a lot. Wish some of the other boat shows would take a tip from you and say where they're at.

[@TheBigDanShow]

Thanks friend, I appreciate the kind words 🥰

[@williamtuttle9656]

I injoy your show, i have a 20ft inboard boat, love boating.

[@TheBigDanShow]

Nice. Thanks

[@peanutbutter2597]

Slow speed steering can be challenging ? But all it takes is patience and practice 😊

[@TheBigDanShow]

Very true!

[@KevinStogner-fd7tl]

I like the Captain Chairs on that one pontoon boat.

[@thomashardwick673]

Another great video and.the first one was the best. Good thing you are not in my area for Florida. I would have made the channel this weekend. Had my hub blow out at the ramp this weekend for no reason. Oh well things happen. 😅

[@TheBigDanShow]

Sorry to hear that.

[@thomashardwick673]

@TheBigDanShow that is why I always care spare parts and a hub kit at all times just for stuff like this had it done and.ready to go in hour and half.

[@SR416a]

Looked like a tortoise to me!

[@user-ok2vl1yo5s]

Omg it's the rubber duck club loading boats

[@TheBigDanShow]

Bahahaaa

[@heatherhillman9605]

I feel like Im watching Auston Powers-International Man of Mystery.

[@TheBigDanShow]

😝😝😝

[@GeorgeT6566]

I like the ramps here there not 10 miles long and step as Mt Rushmore.

[@reggiehowze1891]

Good Monday morning Dan.

[@TheBigDanShow]

Gooodmorning!!

[@rodneyrichardson8286]

Thank's for the entertainment😂

[@TheBigDanShow]

You got it 🫡

[@tonyindiana]

First time viewing and will be visiting and following frequently

[@TheBigDanShow]

Thanks friend

[@KyleWilson-io3rh]

Blazer bay with the sick wrap here I have bunk glides so I have to pull out of gear coming into the trailer slides waaaay too easy up the trailer to come in hot

[@TheBigDanShow]

💪💪💪 Nice! Sweet Boat

[@1sicsrt]

My wife is always shaking her head at me and my kid tries to ignore me as I'm screaming at my tv when I watch your videos because there's someone, typically not a man, who doesn't know how to back a trailer. So my wife and kid get to hear, "TURN LEFT, TURN LEFT, BACK IT UP, STRAIGHTEN IT OUT, STOP TURNING RIGHT, WHAT'RE YOU DOING!!! PULL OUT, BACK STRAIGHT, STOP TURNING!!!!!" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@TheBigDanShow]

😂😂😂😂 I love it

[@1sicsrt]

@@TheBigDanShow in all honesty though, I owned a sweet little 16', 1971 (don't remember the name of it), fiberglass boat with a 90hp outboard on it...and because i; 1) never drove a boat onto a boat trailer before owning a boat 2) feared crunching the hull or doing something stupid and hurting the boat because of number 1 ...I was the guy getting out of the boat and pulling it onto the trailer. And because the engine never ran right, I sold it back to the guy I bought it from. I was told that the 90hp engine was powerful enough to flip that boat over but it never performed like that for me. I sold it back, told him if he gets it fixed then I'd buy it back because I was under the impression I was buying a turnkey boat. That thing would constantly leave me and sometimes my daughter and I stranded in the middle of Lake Washington because it would shut off and not restart..or if I turned it off it didn't like to restart. It screwed me st the boat launch too for 90 minutes trying to get it running. I stayed out of the way as much as possible but that boat launch was in a ritzy neighborhood and was always super busy.

[@cumberlandquiltchic1]

Very cool channel! ✝️🐣🐇💐

[@TheBigDanShow]

Thank you! 🤗

[@boostedchris8969]

Again right down the middle of the ramp 🫠

[@TheBigDanShow]

Hahaaa

[@dougaranda6187]

What an opening! Where exactly is this ramp? I Google Earth’d Orange Beach, but it isn’t jumping out at me.

[@TheBigDanShow]

It’s fairly new. It’s not on all maps yet.

[@pim1234]

I am from the netherlands, looked up some of the boats I see on your channel. How can those people afford such boats ? They are expensive !

[@TheBigDanShow]

Yes it’s wild. I bet half of the boats yours seeing on the channel cost as much as a NICE house. People make fairly decent money down here.

[@pim1234]

@@TheBigDanShow not by monthly payments ? 😄

[@CieraCornelius-pi6ku]

we put in at a boat ramp called duvall landing here in tennessee. its over a150yds ramp these people would never get to take there boats out!

[@mattdavis7558]

👍🤙

[@TheBigDanShow]

💪💪💪

[@chrisvaughn2412]

got to ask ya what ya would say about my trailer that floats.. deep or shallow it floats all the time once it goes in it starts to float

[@TheBigDanShow]

Is it aluminum or solid tubing by chance?

[@chrisvaughn2412]

@@TheBigDanShow MAGIC TILT ALUM

[@phil-1115]

I've seen a lot of Suzuki's on big water boats. I've seen more Yamaha's on bass boats and Fish&Ski boats. Mine has a Yamaha.

[@TheBigDanShow]

Yeah recently it seems that way

[@jimhohl9003]

What's with the multiple boat trailers with only one guide-on post....throughout your various videos?? 🤔

[@TheBigDanShow]

Man idk. They rip them things off 😂

[@joeyhardin1288]

14:45, you called it. Slow and steady wins the race but you still have to pay attention to what is going on behind you!?!?

[@TheBigDanShow]

🙏

[@OttoTheWeim]

A skilled captain should be able to slowly and in a controlled manner turn his boat around 360 in not much more than the length of his/her vessel. It takes practice but with light throttle and proper application of rudder it isn’t difficult with minimal drift/set even on a single screw vessel.

[@TheBigDanShow]

That’s right! 💪

[@richgwozdz8580]

@@TheBigDanShowlady pontoon captain aced that

[@ncnluckydog4965]

Rudder is a term not used enough on modern single outboard boats. With little forward motion in neutral the outboard can still be used to steer boat like a rudder. Very good skill for docking.

[@dirtybootsfishing2923]

Yeah but a great captain can an will easily dock that boat fast or slow I know I can 😂😂😂😂

[@patricklandis3910]

That’s cool about the turtle

[@brianbelliveau5551]

Boy that first guy is not a boat guy

[@TheBigDanShow]

Buddy you ain’t kiddin. I was cringing

[@Enjoy_my_1st_Amendment]

No Suzuki for me although if I ran that style boats I'd certainly consider them. Running a 1976 Sleekcraft Kauai with a 528ci Stroker tied to a Dominator pump. White with black and red accent in the gel. Hard to believe she will be 50 years old in 2 years. A hull and body design that still turns heads today, her name is Attention Whore. She indeed fulfills both sides of that coin at times.

[@TheBigDanShow]

Niceeeee

[@jonathanjones6072]

not so easy thinking rear steering for new boaters

[@TheBigDanShow]

They’ll get it

[@kevinmckinley9518]

I'm ready to receive your.

[@TheBigDanShow]

My what lol

[@raymondwingerson4899]

I don't know how to drive that thing

[@TheBigDanShow]

Lol

[@crisppyy_bacon3784]

mfs lose all senses when they get on water lol

[@TheBigDanShow]

😂😂

[@crmolnar1]

🫣

[@TheBigDanShow]

Ayyyyooo

[@joeharrison696]

He’s drunk

[@brpnw4r94]

He's probably not good at the game of Operation as well.

[@TheBigDanShow]

😂😂😂

[@debrahenry1385]

Its not her fault. He doesn't know how to drive

[@TheBigDanShow]

Lol factssss

[@debrahenry1385]

She needs to back up a bit

[@arleneandbobpaxton9003]

It is so hard to watch these people.

[@TheBigDanShow]

Yet so enjoyable

[@geraldh.6686]

Saying someone is a bad driver so they must be a women driver is the definition of sexist, which I’ve heard you say as well

[@TheBigDanShow]

I definitely ain’t a sexist. I like women far more than men. 😝

[@geraldh.6686]

@@TheBigDanShow maybe you’ll learn what a sexist comment is someday. I know you’re in Alabama and they don’t teach things like that there While not a sexist comment it is stereotyping and along the same lines

[@incognito5986]

New subscriber and enjoy the circus, I mean the show. Hopefully soon I’ll be on some, We just moved to Summerdale and this ramp is the second closest as well, but by far the nicest. I almost always launch by myself and have perfected de-trailering to a fairly simple task. Wife is decent at reversing truck and paying attention to my signals. Going on 36 years with her, we have an understanding, 😂.

[@patricklandis3910]

Doesn’t matter if your channel subscriber people are people doesn’t matter how much experience you got you can still fuck up

[@TheBigDanShow]

That’s the dang truth