Explanation for stupid folks like me? What is that?
Very small deal
Submitted 19 hours ago by ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 19 hours ago
hidden_splendor@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
This is a butt plug for a boat. When you trailer the boat, you pull it out to drain water out of the bildge.
Saleh@feddit.org 18 hours ago
Now that we know, why the hell isn’t it on a chain right next to where it belongs`We have figured that much out for the bath-plug ffs.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Get ready for a mass influx of upvotes. I’m honored to be the first.
PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 17 hours ago
Boss mode ! Thanks
Skyline969@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
Commenting to check again later. I’m curious too.
shalafi@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
It’s for draining your boat. Lacking it will sink your boat.
shalafi@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Story time!
Drunk dad takes me and my Boxer pup on the lake in our crappy little boat. Great times! Until we stopped for a minute to rescue dog overboard. Then we start sinking, plug’s laying on the deck, and the motor won’t start. Then dad falls out trying to get the dog. At this point we’re up to the fucking gunwales with water. Never saw dad panic before or since, guess he couldn’t swim, but he was flooding the boat trying to scramble back in.
Forgot how I managed, but got it beached on the closest shore. Dad bails of the boat with his cookie tin full of pot, terrified it got wet. It wasn’t, so he rolled a joint.
Boat won’t start because the battery was underwater too long, dead as a sack of hammers. I take his keys and start on the 12-mile walk back to the car. 10-miles of dragging that fucking dog down that country road. Why dragging? Because it got dark and I had trained her to not move when she saw headlights coming. Fuck me. Why 2-miles short? Because dad came driving up!
So many lessons learned that day. #1 was probably: Just walk to the nearest house and ask for help. Fuck me.
(This was in the early 90s, no cell. Dad actually had a car phone, for all the good it did.)
Lawnman23@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 hours ago
I don’t even know what I am looking at here.
moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Pull it like a grenade pin and throw it as far away from the boat as possible (into the water)
ReputedlyDeplorable@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
This happened twice to me and my Dad. The last thing we usually do when talking the boat out of the water is remove the drain plug. It is kept in the boat’s glove compartment, when not in the water. Both times we noticed pretty quickly and were able to get it back on the trailer and pull it up to drain.
Gladaed@feddit.org 18 hours ago
Some kind of ignition, probably?
Empricorn@feddit.nl 18 hours ago
The remix, actually.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Is that some kind of oil plug for a car?
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Answer from comment chain: drain plug from a boat. Without it boat floods, used to drain boats before towing
somewhiteguy@infosec.pub 18 hours ago
Grandpa always had 3-5 in the glovebox of his truck. One would always get left somewhere or someone at the boat launch would be swearing about missing theirs and he’d give them one. Just one of those things you have to keep around.
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Are they like one size fits all?
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
If you can get the boat going before it floods, the boat moving through the water will create enough suction to drain out any water. You just better have a plug waiting for you at your destination.
shalafi@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
LOL, read my story below. Tried exactly that, and it worked well enough to get beached. Shenanigans followed.