Son stuck in coulee in bay farin area near henderson lake. Lauch at public landing under I-10 exit to butte larose. Holed boat. Battery dead. Waiting for rescue. Need winch and battery to power bilge. Call my cell 337-315-0287 for more details..or his cell 337-315-0292. Thanks.

I'm headed to landing now.

I hope he, the dog, and the boat make it out ok! Good luck to you, dg.

Prayers sent!

Guidry, get that boy an aluminum boat so he quits putting holes in your wooden one!

Bubba777 and Derrick to the rescue. It'll be dark.

D two things you need to do
1. Gets you a alum. Boat with a 35
2. Turn your son out to the real world. Take the open check book away from him!!

All is good!! Will report later.

Bring one of your tampons to plug the hole in the boat. I seen it work on a commercial once.

shoulda had some flex seal!

Many thanks to Bubba777, Derrick and his padnah, Ames Courville and his airboat from Magees landing. Could not have made rescue without y'all. Y'all are the best.

Here's what started the 4 hour ordeal. I'll post videos once their uploaded.

Rescue crew in action

Rescue video

http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/dd3 ... 728263.mp4

Rescue crew

Transport after extraction

http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/dd3 ... B396E0.mp4

That's some awesome stuff! Glad everything turned out ok!!!

Glad everything turned out ok!

Motor taken off and boat off trailer ready to turn upside down to repair.

Another transport video

http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/dd3 ... FAACFF.mp4

Somebody always gotta go rescue a democrat.

Good thing you got some help though, sounds like mmt rescue came through for yall.

Nothing a swimming noodle wouldn't have temporarily fixed. I suggest you carry a piece.

Jeez I would be embarrassed to drive a boat that says MMT's dguidry hahaha

I just love a happy ending

Good to see some good folks on the board.

WTF DRIVES A WOODEN BOAT?

What crazy is dumba$$ gonna do it again

Ok so hee is a synopsis of the events leading up to the rescue. Dean Jr went to Henderson Lake to scout ducks yesterday morning. He left home at about 4 am spud down at his usual spot. He stayed there until about 10 then began exploring eventually ending up in the coulee into the "plattin" as we call it or bay "T'ien". He made it all the way into the bay. On the way back he heard the sound of wood cracking. It turns out the area we had repaired hastily last year was taking in water. The epoxy filler be used to fill the hole you see in the first photo above disintegrated into shards of epoxy. Dean Jr had repaired the hole by placing a flat piece of wood up against the bottom with wax paper between the bottom and the piece of wood. He then filled up the hole with epoxy. Once that cured he removed the wood and wax paper which left the hardened epoxy fully replacing the hole that was once wood. It was a good idea bu apparently not good enough. The epoxy may not have cured properly and became brittle.

So what I'm now going to do is cover the entire bottom with a sheet of 3/8's inch marine plywood. I will then have a bottom that will be more than 1/2 thick which should be able to withstand pretty much any punishment including stumps. I'll take pictures of the repair process and post them up for anyone interested.

Dean thats going to add some weight big guy

Isn't the platin posted property? Just asking always thought it was.


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Saw the boat earlier at Bruce's. Hell of a hole. Are you allergic to aluminum or something?? Hopefully the double bottom will fix your problem I'm just afraid the next time you risk the chance of losing the entire rig if in deeper water.


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Wood boats were the only boats for hundreds of years. You can make it work.


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[quote="CootSlayerRMFT"]Wood boats were the only boats for hundreds of years.

And then came the wood splintering mud motor

Boat bottom is sanded and ready for epoxy filler to even surface and install plywood bottom tomorrow. Paint Thursday morning and second coat in pm. Motor back on Friday and boat on trailer ready for launch opening day Saturday. Haven't worked this hard in a long time. I ache all over.